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| Anonymous Milliner, USA Hat ca. 1905 embroidered cotton, machine-made cotton lace, silk satin ribbon Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Marie Louise Hat 1912 silk velvet, grosgrain ribbon, metallic trim Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Toré Hat ca. 1915 silk taffeta and silk velvet Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Paul Poiret Hat 1923 silk and leather Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Anonymous Milliner, Europe Hat ca. 1925 silk organza and sequins National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Lily Daché for I. Magnin Hat ca. 1938 straw and silk Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Rose Valois Hat 1945 wool felt, silk velvet, ribbon, feathers Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Elsa Schiaparelli Hat 1945 silk satin with dyed feathers Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Sally Victor Hat 1952 wool felt Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto |
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| Halston Hat 1959 dyed fur, rayon ribbon, wool felt Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Adolfo Hat ca. 1960 printed silk shantung Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Gretta Netherby Hat ca. 1960 silk, cotton and wire Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide |
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| Anonymous Milliner, Japan Beach Hat 1964 raffia and straw Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto |
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| Gustave Tassell Hat ca. 1965 feathers on foundation of silk faille Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Cristóbal Balenciaga Hat ca. 1967 silk tulle Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Hubert de Givenchy Hat 1988 silk satin and acetate velvet Philadelphia Museum of Art |
from Letter to Lord Byron
Byron, thou should'st be living at this hour!
What would you do, I wonder, if you were?
Britannia's lost prestige and cash and power,
Her middle classes show some wear and tear,
We've learned to bomb each other from the air;
I can't imagine what the Duke of Wellington
Would say about the music of Duke Ellington.
Suggestions have been made that the Teutonic
Führer-Prinzip would have appealed to you
As being the true heir to the Byronic –
In keeping with your social status too
(It has its English converts, fit and few),
That you would, hearing Oswald's honest call,
Be gleichgeschaltet in the Albert Hall.
"Lord Byron at the head of his storm-troopers!"
Nothing, says science, is impossible:
The Pope may quit to join the Oxford Groupers,
Nuffield may leave one farthing in his Will,
There may be someone who trusts Baldwin still,
Someone may think that Empire wines are nice,
There may be people who hear Tauber twice.
You liked to be the center of attention,
The gay Prince Charming of the fairy story,
Who tamed the Dragon by his intervention.
In modern warfare, though it's just as gory,
There isn't any individual glory;
The Prince must be anonymous, observant,
A kind of lab-boy, or a civil servant.
You never were an Isolationist;
Injustice you had always hatred for,
And we can hardly blame you, if you missed
Injustice just outside your lordship's door:
Nearer than Greece were cotton and the poor.
To-day you might have seen them, might indeed
Have walked in the United Front with Gide,
Against the ogre, dragon, what you will;
His many shapes and names all turn us pale,
For he's immortal, and to-day he still
Swinges the horror of his scaly tail.
Sometimes he seems to sleep, but will not fail
In every age to rear up to defend
Each dying force of history to the end.
– W.H. Auden (1936)