Image of the front page of The Daily Graphic newspaper of November 7, 1874, with illustrations of men and women wearing comically tall hats in a commentary of the extremes to which the current fashion trends in headwear were going; depictions include a fashionable couple walking wearing huge hats and coiffures, a woman with hair and a hat so tall she needs a comically long-handled parasol to accommodate them, a man wearing exaggerated military garb and a huge plumed hat, and a woman whose hair is coifed so high that her maid needs a step ladder to put on her madam's hat. "Gray Parker"--text, artist's signature on stone, bottom right of image. "Ladies' hats and coiffures having reached such dizzy heights, at the present moment, / it is absolutely necessary, to equalize proportions, that some change should be made in gentleman's hats."
Type
image
Extent
1 engraving : hand colored ; overall 51.59 x 35.24 cm (20 5/16 x 13 7/8 in.)
Clothing and dress--Pictorial works Fashion--Pictorial works Hats--Pictorial works Intaglio prints--Color--1850-1875. (gmgpc) Caricatures. (gmgpc) Newspapers. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Fashion Large Size The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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