Hat

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The flat and grandiose cartwheel, firmly secured to the head, was the favored hat type of the second quarter of the eighteenth century. Few survive; this is an exceptionally fine example.

The Costume Institute

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Costume Institute's collection of more than thirty-three thousand objects represents seven centuries of fashionable dress and accessories for men, women, and children, from the fifteenth century to the present.

Metropolitan Museum of Art