Page 9 shows something the author actually calls a pill box, and gives it as
Venetian about 1500. We are all aware, right, that this book is not proper
documentation, being nothing but re-drawings from unidentified sources?



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On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Sharon Collier <[email protected]>wrote:

> Wow, if you go to page 4, in the top right corner is a man wearing a hat
> that is almost exactly what everyone has been discussing. (hat/caul with
> rolled/padded brim, even with a slight point in front)Could women have
> adopted a man's style?
>
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> Subject: Re: [h-cost] Primary source for Elizabethan pillbox hats sought
>
> I had asked Lynn McMasters and she says that it is based off an Italian
> portrait.
> http://lynnmcmasters.com/LadyM.html
> in color and a wee bit larger.
> http://tinyurl.com/yt6hg9
>
>
> Now it could be something like this
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Angelo_Bronzino_002.jpg
> with a caul but it is hard to tell.
>
> "The Mode in Hats and headdresses might also be of help. Wilcox has a few
> pillbox drawings from this period. Usually you can find a matching portrait
> to her drawings if you look around. I have seem many 18C matches in my
> Turban research.
> You can see all her drawings from that book on line.
> http://gallery.villagehatshop.com/gallery/chapter9
>
> She does use different names for what is basically the same thing; Pillbox,
> Calotte (cap) and velvet bonnet. Maybe that is what people are having
> trouble with. Lynn"
>
>
> De
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