{"title":"1940s","description":"\u003cp\u003eI keep noticing the discipline in a padded shoulder from this decade, the way it squares a body up as if practicality and loveliness were never meant to be separate choices. Even a hat holds that same certainty, wool felt and grosgrain still faithful to whoever blocked them by hand. I follow whatever provenance a label gives me, give each piece whatever it actually needs, mending, restoration, or just a proper readying, then send it out from Melbourne.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"forget-me-not-innes-wichita-1940s-blue-flower-hat","title":"Forget-Me-Not · Innes Wichita 1940s Blue Flower Hat","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFabric flowers on straw base · velvet bow · blue floral net lining · cornflower grosgrain inner band · \u003cem\u003eInnes, Wichita\u003c\/em\u003e · 1940s to early 1950s\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA dome covered entirely with small fabric flowers, each one individually attached, their petals edge-cut, each centre a small cluster of blue stamens. The colour is cornflower: a clear, mid blue that runs absolutely consistent from petal to petal across the whole surface. A wide velvet bow sits at one side. This hat required considerable patience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eInnes, Wichita\u003c\/em\u003e, 1940s to early 1950s. Mid-century American millinery produced hats of extraordinary imaginative range: the flower hat, the veil hat, the sculptural wool felt, all of them made in an era when a woman was expected to have a hat for every occasion and the milliners obliged. Flowers like these were made in workrooms by hand, petal by petal, each one heated and pressed into shape before attachment. The flowers on this hat are in extraordinary condition for a piece of this age, their colour intact and petals unbroken, the result of a hatbox and careful keeping.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"caitiedid","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44109008633990,"sku":null,"price":220.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0657\/5960\/8966\/files\/DSC_2998.jpg?v=1782267182"}],"url":"https:\/\/checkout.caitiedid.shop\/collections\/collections-1940s-vintage.oembed","provider":"caitiedid","version":"1.0","type":"link"}