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Mrs. Cleofas Martinez Jaramillo In Her Wedding Hat

Photographer: Anderson Studio Date: 1901 Negative Number 009920

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For this month’s Archives Hashtag Party we’re giving an #ArchivesTipOfTheHat to Betty Ford’s wedding attire.

Elizabeth Bloomer Warren married Gerald R. Ford, Jr., at Grace Episcopal Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on October 15, 1948. The bride wore a sapphire blue satin dress and this hat. The lace that covers it came from a parasol that belonged to the groom’s grandmother.

Images: Hat worn by Betty Ford at her wedding to Gerald R. Ford

Gerald and Betty Ford on Their Wedding Day at Grace Episcopal Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan, 10/15/1948 (National Archives Identifier 6923711)

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#ArchivesTipOfTheHat

Who doesn’t love a great baseball cap? This 1941 image is captioned, “The Pala Reservation Baseball team. They made a splendid record the past season.”  

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#ArchivesTipOfTheHat

Join us as we follow a lost hat on its perilous journey home to finally be reunited with its owner!  

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For this Month’s #ArchivesHashtagParty Theme #ArchivesTipOfTheHat, we’re featuring this image of a Group of dancers performing in the ILGWU pageant "I Hear America Singing" Date in 1940. #CornellRAD #KheelCenter #ILGWU #Garmentworkers https://www.instagram.com/p/CNKjsc9soGs/?igshid=13quf7drbq1hc

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Lilly Daché, Milliner/Designer

Celebrating all things hat for this month’s #ArchivesHashtagParty, we want to share with you a 1954 kinescope of a “Person to Person” episode featuring world-famous milliner, Lilly Daché, preserved in our Peabody Awards archives. Perfect for #ArchivesTipOfTheHat!

This was the show hosted by Edward R. Murrow where he would converse with famous people in their homes while he sat smoking cigarettes and interviewing them from a tv studio in New York.

The program was live via microwave link to the network, and a lot of cameras, lights, and other bulky and expensive cameras and equipment were installed at the subject’s home in the days ahead of the show, all to make it look easy and effortless to visit a celebrity at home. Believe us, it wasn’t easy! Today, all you need is a computer with a camera to chat with celebs in their homes in online chats.

Murrow’s visit with the talented and elegant Daché took place 67 years ago on April 16, 1954 from her apartment in New York (the top floors of a building she had built), where she was joined by her husband, Jean Despres, Executive VP at Coty cosmetics/fragrances.  She highlights some African chieftans’ headwear  which have inspired her designs:

Our record for the program in the Peabody Awards Archives is here:  http://dbs.galib.uga.edu/cgi-bin/parc.cgi?userid=galileo&query=id:1954_54009_nwt_1  and if you will click on the blue highlighted link in that record, it will take you to Kaltura to watch the program. The first interview is with Archbishop Richard Cushing of Boston (whose hat is a Biretta, btw). Lilly Dache’s interview begins at the 18:40 mark.

Daché came to the U.S. from France in 1919 with $13 in her pocket and rose from millinery saleswoman to shop owner to designer and head of her own company. She was wildly successful from the 1930s through the 1950s. Presidents’ wives, movie stars, businesswomen, and housewives all wore her hats.  Some of those hats are preserved at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Fashion Institute of Technology,

Read all about Daché in her entertaining autobiography, Talking through My Hats (1946), available at a library near you.