Black Velvet Bonnet

The bonnet was seen as essential to the formation of the ideal Victorian woman, dependent, decorative, nonintellectual and submissive. It blinkered her view of the world, and its restrictive shape appeared to separate head from body.

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Date: 1860s

Gift of Mrs. Harry E. Barton, TTU-H1985-171-001

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