One of my favorite artifacts at the Cobb House is the charming, green, ladies bonnet. Great care was taken in the old days to properly frame a woman’s face with ruffles and silk. ~ BHS Docent, Cobb House Museum
Calash Bonnet, 1971.453
A “calash bonnet” was always formed of green silk; it was worn abroad, covering the head, but when in rooms it could fall back in folds like the springs of a calash or gig top; to keep it up over the head it was drawn up by a cord always held in the hand of the wearer. ~ Gift of Roland Allen, thought to belong to his mother, Emily Allen