Woodfluter
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Given the colors and construction, I'd sure guess it's a woman's hat.
Tall woman to left rear in 1918 wartime kitchen photo seems to be wearing something with a similar outline.
Look at the photo Feltfan posted of Lara Croft's granny and the other yeo(wo)men. In those cases, a uniform hat but notice the diameter of the crown - definitely made large enough in circumference to accommodate voluminous hair piled atop the head. I think you'll see hints of that in the 1918 kitchen picture also. Without all that hair, they'd fall over your eyes.
Since the hat really would be contacting only hair, no purpose in adding a sweatband.
Probably wouldn't be needed because of the size and weight, but are there any little holes anywhere near the base of the crown that might be associated with a straight hair pin (or more precisely hat pin), to keep it in place?
(Fun to play hat detectives...)
- Bill
Tall woman to left rear in 1918 wartime kitchen photo seems to be wearing something with a similar outline.
Look at the photo Feltfan posted of Lara Croft's granny and the other yeo(wo)men. In those cases, a uniform hat but notice the diameter of the crown - definitely made large enough in circumference to accommodate voluminous hair piled atop the head. I think you'll see hints of that in the 1918 kitchen picture also. Without all that hair, they'd fall over your eyes.
Since the hat really would be contacting only hair, no purpose in adding a sweatband.
Probably wouldn't be needed because of the size and weight, but are there any little holes anywhere near the base of the crown that might be associated with a straight hair pin (or more precisely hat pin), to keep it in place?
(Fun to play hat detectives...)
- Bill