title: Pillbox Hat
title: Pill Box Hat
creator: Balenciaga, Cristobal, 1895-1972
contributor: Eisa
contributor: de Osborne, Claudia Heard
contributor: Gossens, Robert
date: 1960/1965
language: No Language
description: Brown velvet pillbox cocktail hat. The low, circular crown of the
 hat is slightly domed. At front of hat is pinned a large 3-dimensional
 pear-shaped openwork jeweled ornament of gold wire set with various colors and
 shapes of stones. Inside of hat lined in black cloth. Around inside lower edge
 of crown is brown grosgrain ribbon band.
Designer's label sewn to inner
 ribbon band: "Eisa".
subject: Social Life and Customs - Clothing - Accessories - Hats
subject: Arts and Crafts - Crafts - Jewelry
subject: headgear
subject: hats
subject: pillboxes (hats)
subject: jewelry
subject: applied decoration
coverage: Spain
coverage: France - Île-de-France Region - Département de Ville de Paris - Paris
coverage: 1960/1965
rights: Public
rights: Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives
rights: All Texas Fashion Collection content and images are copyrighted.
type: Physical Object
format: 17 cm. front to back, excluding jewel; 16.5 cm. side to side; 8.5 cm.
 from base to top of crown.
format: Image
identifier: local-cont-no: 1978.013.028
identifier: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc30150/
identifier: ark: ark:/67531/metadc30150