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Oh, it has been a busy season at The Vintage Hat Shop. Many new/vintage hats are cleaned, embellished, photographed and ready for "the shop". 

Molded indented toque with ostrich feather accent.

Faux fur cloche

1950s asymmetrical cocktail hat

White fedora with ostrich feather accent

Black velvet with antique rhinestone pin and ostrich feather

1930s black calotte, Juliette cap

Vintage 1950s black hat, Irene Dunn

As I was searching for photos to match some of the 1950s  hats currently listed in The Vintage Hat Shop, I came across this photo of Irene Dunn.  A perfect example of the 50s woman of fashion!

The mushroom toque is a similar style but without the veil. Both have clean classic lines in the symmetrical 1950s style.

1950s black touqe hat

Hedda Hopper- Hat Lover Extraordinaire!

Noted columnist Hedda Hopper was certainly a hat lover in her day. Take a look at the variety of hat styles from the 1940s and 1950s  that were her fashion. Yes, hats extraordinaire!!

Woman's Home Companion July 1952

Woman's Home Companion July 1952

Loretta Young Fashions, 1952.

What style you have, Loretta Young!!


Quote from fashion editor Elizabeth Maderia of the Woman's Home Companion---

Planning a wardrobe with Loretta Young is a fashion editor's dream-- here's a star who knows what she likes and how to wear it, plans clothes expertly for a life that includes small sons swarming in from school, a teen-age daughter, a handsome and successful husband, her own demanding career and work for charity besides.  You see her here in and about her lovely house; you'll next see her in Columbia's production of Paula. 

Woman's Home Companion  July 1952

First Day of School 1955

Take a look at this first day of school, 1955. McCalls magazine cover.  I love that plaid lunchbox!