#picture hat
One of Georgiana’s numerous fashion achievements was her invention and popularization of what was known at the time as the Picture Hat. When she sat for Gainsborough in 1783, Georgiana wore this heavenly haberdashery, which she had designed herself. After the painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy, the hat became all the rage. Numerous women went straight to their milliners, requesting “the picture hat” that they has seen at the Royal Academy. Whether they actually liked the over-sized feathered and ribboned black hat or were only imitating the fashionably elite is not known, but this hat resurfaced in the following century among Victorian women, now called the “Gainsborough Hat”.
Below are some pictures of this fabulous hat.
Source: http://georgianaduchessofdevonshire.blogspot.com/2008/05/picture-hat.html
