Exhibit Reception & Lecture: "Pinnacle of Fashion: Hats of the 20th Century"

The Stone Fort Museum invites you to celebrate fall by pulling out your best (or worst) hat and join us for an afternoon dessert, a little hat-making and a lot of hat history.

The current exhibit explores the social and cultural context of wearing hats with 65 hats, caps and bonnets dating from 1850 to 1950. Everything from the ubiquitous sunbonnet to the popular fedora is on display.

To help you step into history, we'll have our own 'portrait studio' set up, so wear your favorite hat and pose for posterity! Then fashion historian, Rebecca Jumper Matheson, will talk about hats of the twentieth century. Author of "The Sunbonnet: An American Icon in Texas," Matheson is a former research assistant at The Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and has taught in the History of Art Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology. She will present, "Pinnacle of Fashion: Hats of the Twentieth Century."