Vintage Phipps Tailored Hats Cream Woven Hat with Red Feathers and Veil, with Felt and Crochet Rose Corsages

This vintage Phipps Tailored Hats ladies hat is a small, close-fitting oval hat covered in cream, an oatmeal or natural straw shade, open basket-weave fabric that looks like woven straw cloth or a linen-type weave. Its main trim is a thick cluster of red, a bright cherry red, dyed feathers mounted at one side so they spill out from under the folded edge. Two separate millinery flower corsages were photographed with it: one of flocked felt roses and one of crocheted roses on plaid ribbon.

The crown is smooth and rounded on top, with the cream fabric folded into a turned band along one edge and a small tuck of the same fabric at the end. Long, glossy and narrow, like dyed hackle feathers, the red feathers have darker wine-red tips and fan out from the side toward the back. Along one edge sits a narrow strip of small black, a flat coal black, square tiles set side by side like a mosaic band. On the felt corsage, layered petals in orange, a rust or terracotta shade, and red, a deep burgundy, have a dusty suede-like flocked surface, with green serrated fabric leaves and a green wrapped wire stem. In the second corsage, two cream crocheted roses, one with a faux pearl pin head at its center, are tied with a red, white and blue plaid ribbon bow and backed with cream tulle, a green velvet leaf, green plastic leaves and a spray of small cream paper or fabric blossoms.

Inside, the crown is lined with pink, a deep raspberry pink, ribbed faille or grosgrain fabric printed or flocked with a black lace pattern of flowers and leaves, and a red band with gold stitching runs around the inner edge. A black velvet band rims the opening, and black veil netting lies over the lining. The maker's label is stitched inside the crown under the netting: a cream woven tape with brown lettering inside an oval outline. TAILORED HATS curves along the top of the oval in small block capitals, PHIPPS runs across the middle in larger spaced block capitals under a small leaf or scroll motif, and LONDON PARIS and NEW YORK sit in two bands at the bottom.

On this copy: the hat is about one adult hand across (not measured). Yellow-brown water stains cross the cream fabric of the crown, and the edges are frayed with loose threads. The black veil netting is torn and shredded, and the black tile strip is chipped with one loose clear square resting on it. Its feathers are full but ruffled. Lint sits in the petals of the dusty felt rose corsage, and the crocheted roses are lightly soiled with a few dark threads caught on them.

• Type: Small fitted ladies hat with a side feather mount
• Maker: Phipps (woven label: TAILORED HATS / PHIPPS / LONDON PARIS / NEW YORK)
• Hat fabric: Cream, oatmeal or natural straw shade, open basket-weave straw cloth
• Feathers: Red, bright cherry red, dyed feathers with darker tips
• Lining: Pink, deep raspberry, faille with black lace pattern; black velvet edge
• Veil: Black veil netting over the lining
• Label: Cream woven oval label with brown block capitals, inside crown
• Corsage 1: Rust and burgundy flocked felt roses, green leaves, wire stem
• Corsage 2: Cream crocheted roses, faux pearl pin, red, white and blue plaid ribbon
• This copy: About one hand across; water stains, frayed edges, torn veil, chipped tile strip