Easter Bonnets of the Late 19th Century
“The Easter bonnet has long been recognized as woman’s particular weakness.”
The Illustrated American, 1886.
Spring Bonnets, Der Bazar, 1882.
(Met Museum)
(Met Museum)
In the nineteenth century, Easter Sunday was an occasion for ladies of all classes to don their most fashionable bonnets. Some of these bonnets were specially bought for the holiday. Others were old bonnets made up with new trimmings. In either circumstance, Easter bonnets were as essential to celebrating Easter as were eggs and bunnies. An 1889 edition of the Ladies Home Journal even went so far as to declare that it was “an accepted fact that every woman who can buy or make a dainty bonnet for Easter-day must wear it.”[…]Continue Reading
