Fanchon bonnet
Category
Costume
Date
1865 - 1870
Materials
Textile
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1349769
Caption
This pretty Fanchon bonnet is made from satin and silk georgette, lined with lace and decorated with cornflowers, poppies, daisies and ferns of coloured feathers. Fanchon is the French word for ‘free’ and this whimsical bonnet was seen as the height of fashion, but not necessarily as protective headwear.
Summary
Fanchon bonnet - Made from yellow satin and silk georgette in rows of box pleats across the bonnet and lined with yellow georgette. It is constructed on a wire frame. The bonnet is edged with machine blond-style lace. There is a satin ribbon bow centre front. There is a bar decorated with cornflowers, poppies, daisies and ferns of coloured, stiffened cotton and feathers. There are yellow satin ribbon ties and false ties of georgette and satin held with satin and lace bow at the throat. There are narrow ties of cream silk fringed ribbon. See SNO.TC.1123/1125. Cf. Nancy Bradfield 'Costume in Detail' pg.192 (female)
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade