Hats: A Stylish History and Collector's Guide

by Jody Shields

Chronicles fifty years of millinery design history, from the heyday of hats in the twenties and thirties, through their decline in popularity during the sixties and late seventies

Genres: Nonfiction

128 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1991

About the author

Jody Shields is the former design editor of the New York Times Magazine and a former editor at Vogue, House and Garden, and Details. She has written several screenplays and has a master's degree in art. Her prints are in various collections, including the Museum of Modern Art. She lives in New York.

Reviews

[Kathryn Baron · Rating 2 out of 5]

1920's -60's. Fun but not really useful for my purposes.

[Celeste · Rating 3 out of 5]

Jody Shields gives an overview of hat styles from the 1920s through the 1960s and the end of millinery as a major force in fashion. Drawing on contemporary fashion magazines like Vogue and millinery specific sources like Hats, Shields discusses the major trends in hat fashion in each period and how these styles were received at the time.

There are lots of illustrations in color as well as black and white, but I wish the illustrations matched the text better. Sometimes Shields will devote a few paragraphs to a particular hat style without having any pictures of that style at all.