Cap

E. A. Morrison, Importer

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

In the early 1880s the hair was dressed very simply and lay close to the head, with large curls worn low and the front waved or in a large knot on the crown and the front combed back. Young women wearing the fashionable hairstyle of the time were no longer wearing day caps. This cap would more likely have been worn by a married woman as part of her morning toilette.

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