Escher or Sprague Woman

I have a couple hats about this size and they are amazingly light.

It's just straw, ribbon and an ostrich feather.

I love this hat. Agree with Michelle B.

ahhhh.... i wish we all still dressed like this

Lovely!

Ewwwwwwww!!

What a hat!

This was the style in her day. Love these old picture's.

I hope she was short in stature otherwise an awful sight.

She looks beautiful in her hat.......lovely picture.

Pretty disrespectful Gary, bet you had a female relative that had a hat like this.......I think we all have one in the family.......elegant woman for her day

Beautiful!

No to the hat

She can wear it gracefully because of her body type and hair style. I happen to LOVE the Maud Hart Lovelace Betsy-Tacy series which are semiautobiographical and take place around the turn of the twentieth century. In some biographical material, there are photos of her and her friends in pompadours and Merry Widow hats which were very wide. On them, young high school girls, well, let's just say they didn't carry off the more extreme styles very well. I don't know if they were just too young or didn't have the right faces and figures. Still, they were clearly pleased with themselves so I guess it was all right. Extreme styles are always hard to wear.