Sailor hat

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Dorothy Campbell wearing a straw sailor in 1909

A sailor hat is a brimmed straw hat similar to those historically worn by nineteenth century sailors before the sailor cap became standard. It is very close in appearance to the masculine boater,[1] although "sailors" as worn by women and children have their own distinct design, typically flat-crowned, wide-brimmed and with a dark ribbon band extending into streamers hanging off the brim.[2] Such hats could also be made in felt as an alternative to straw.[3]

Origins

The sennit or straw hat formed part of the British naval uniform up until 1921 when it was formally discontinued by order on March 16, 1921.[4][5]

Fashion

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1890 woman's sailor hat in leghorn straw, trimmed with chiffon. LACMA M.83.231.69

The "sailor" was a standard form of fashionable headgear for women and children in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Children often wore it with sailor suits.[3] For women, the sailor became fashionable from the 1870s onwards, in a rather smaller form than its inspiration.[6] One 1870s variation on the style was the Marin anglais bonnet, which added extra trimmings of flowers and ribbons to the sailor hat form.[7] In most decades since the 1870s the sailor, or variations thereof, has been in fashion, or a staple form of headgear. One popular variation was the "short-back sailor", distinguished by its large broad flat brim, narrowing sharply (sometimes to nothing) in the back, and frequently worn at an upwards tilt.[8]

The sailor hat was a key part of Chanel's trademark 'little boy' look that she popularised in the 1920s and revived in 1954 for her comeback collection.[9][10]

References

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