One of our readers asked this morning to provide clarity on the price of a chip hat during Regency period.
Here is a jpeg of the page in ENGLISH WOMENS' CLOTHING OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY BY C. W. Cunningham, page 50.
The pricing is for a hat made in approximately 1817.
Chip could be plaited or woven just like straw but was sturdier, less
flexible. Once formed into a sort of basket in whatever shape was
currently fashionable, it could be bleached or colored, then trimmed as desired.
Here are a few examples:
LADY'S CHIP STRAW RIDING HAT, AMERICAN, 1810-1820
1814 Walking outfit, Straw hat.
Ackermanns'
Pricing of Chip hats, 18-20 shillings.
