A beautiful 1930s Lilly Dache, superb quality, olive green felt’Robin Hood’ hat with multiple autumnal coloured feathers to one side. This beautiful hat is a very rare and wearable collectors piece, made from the finest of millinery materials. Made by one of the greatest milliners there has ever been (see collectors notes below). Acclaimed for her celebrity clientelle which notably included Dietrich and Garbo. Book Piece: This beautiful Lilly Dache’Robin Hood’ Hat is the actual hat that appears in the Thames & Hudson publication “Vintage Fashion Complete”. The felt is shaped into a waving low peak at the front and neat bow tail to the back. These hats were all the rage when Errol Flynn first hit the screens in 1938 American Technicolor swashbuckler film, The Adventures of Robin Hood. There is an inner grosgrain banding and elastic to hold and the coveted Lilly Dache Paris and New York milliners 1930s white label. This fabulous example is in excellent vintage condition, clean and totally wearable. Of a medium ladies head size approx. 22 inches with elastic strap to secure. I will be listing many of my beautiful hats over the coming weeks so do please keep watching. We post out on Tuesdays ONLY as we live in a remote location and travel some distance to our nearest post office. However, if you need a hat urgently, we do make exceptions, so do please ask and we will do our best for you. We do our very best to describe our hats accurately and to package carefully, we do want our customers to be happy in their dealings with us. We respectfully remind you that you are purchasing to keep not to try. Buyers remorse or the wrong size are not acceptable reasons for a return. Our hats are beautifully and carefully packed, they are as clean and fresh as professional cleaning can make them, they are original true vintage pieces. We endeavour to provide our customers with an excellent service and bring wonderful vintage and antique hats to the market. The Daphne Corbin Hat Collection is famous around the world and has been shown in many exhibitions, written about in books and magazines and many newspaper articles. Daphne is one of the worlds leading authorities on historic hats, she works with film, theatre and museums, gives talks to interested groups for charity and opens her private collection to collectors, curators and fashion students from around the world by appointment. (10 October 1898 31 December 1989) was a French. Great milliners have frequently felt that they owed it to their public to enjoy lives as fashionable and extreme as many of their creations. New York milliners like Daché moved in high society, were considered friends by some of their grandest customers and lived stylish lives. But, of course, to achieve such eminence the milliner had to have an exceptional creative talent. Lilly Daché clearly did. In her autobiography Talking through my Hats, she describes how, when she was a young woman just starting her career, she always wore one of her own creations when she went out to dinner. From such beginnings she built an empire that brought wealth, power and considerable social standing. She was born in. Gironde, France, and began her fashion career there at the age of 15 as a milliner, apprenticed under. She emigrated to the United States in 1919, and settled in New York City. On 13 March 1931, Daché married French-born. Who was an executive at the large cosmetics and fragrance company, Coty, Inc. Their mutual love and successful supportive professional lives and collaboration endeared them to those around them. Daché is reported to have said, Glamour is what makes a man ask for your telephone number. But it also is what makes a woman ask for the name of your dressmaker. She was the most famous milliner in the United States during her time. So famous, in fact, that she was a mystery guest on a 1955 episode of the sophisticated television game show. What’s My Line? Eventually guessed her identity. She is also referenced in the song “Tangerine” performed by the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra. Her major contributions to millinery were draped. Brimmed hats molded to the head, half hats, visored caps for war workers, sculptured hats, coloured. And romantic massed-flower shapes. By 1949, she was designing dresses to go with her hats, as well as. Loungewear, gloves, hosiery, and a wired strapless. Lilly Daché designed for Hollywood films and had many clients who were movie-stars. They included Marlene Dietrich, Caroline Lombard and Loretta Young. When Daché retired in 1968 Loretta Young bought her last thirty hats. And the hair stylist Kenneth worked for her before going into business for themselves. Daché’s books include. Lilly Daché’s Glamour Book. (published in 1956) and her autobiography. Talking through My Hats. Daché retired in 1968, and her New York millinery business was taken over by her daughter Suzanne Daché. Daché in 1940 won the. Neiman Marcus Fashion Award. She also won the first. Coty American Fashion Critics Award. For millinery in 1943. Her grandson is the American painter John Gordon Gauld b. Her designs and hats are valued highly by collectors of vintage clothes. The item “VINTAGE HAT 1930s V RARE LILLY DACHE OLIVE GREEN FELT ROBIN HOOD HAT w FEATHERS” is in sale since Tuesday, August 28, 2018. This item is in the category “Clothes, Shoes & Accessories\Vintage Clothing & Accessories\Vintage Accessories\Hats, Women’s”. The seller is “williamcassie” and is located in Halton Hall. This item can be shipped worldwide.

• Decade: 1930s
• Look: 1930s Elegance
• Style: Robin Hood
• Size: M
• Main Colour: Olive Green
• Vintage Type: True Vintage
• Material: Fine beaver felt & Feathers
• Brand: Lilly Dache, Paris & New York
• Circumference: Approx. 22 inches
• Type: Hats/ Headwear
• Colour: Olive Green & autumnal feathers
• Occasion: Collectors, Museum, Vintage, Display
• Period: 1930s
• Original/Reproduction: Original
• Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

Tags: 1930s, dache, feathers, felt, green, hood, lilly, olive, rare, robin, vintage