Cap

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This headpiece is an elaborate example of the Victorian custom of creating jewelry and other accessories from the hair of loved ones. Designed in the style of a mid-nineteeenth-century snood, this cap approximates a hairstyle of the day. Unusual in its concept, it may have been meant to be worn completely over the wearer's hair or perhaps under a hat.

The Costume Institute

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Costume Institute's collection of more than thirty-three thousand objects represents seven centuries of fashionable dress and accessories for men, women, and children, from the fifteenth century to the present.

Metropolitan Museum of Art