I like to think that Eva Tanguay would have worn this hat. A Canadian singer and entertainer who billed herself as “the girl who made Vaudeville famous”, she was known as the Queen of Vaudeville during the height of her popularity in the early 1900s. Eva appeared in films and was the first performer to achieve national mass-media celebrity, earning $3500 per week at the height of her career. She spent lavishly on publicity campaigns and costumes thereby gaining free press with outrageous behavior.
I feel like this hat is for a smart, forward thinking, style-conscious woman like Eva, the original “it” girl. Imagine what she’d have done with the social media of today!!!
