The Enduring Nature of the Bucket Hat

​Some things never go out of style. Take, for example the mother of the bucket hat, the classic garden hat, known also as the “picture hat” and the “cartwheel,” among several other names: this hat was already chiq even in the late eighteenth century. At that time, this large-brimmed hat was worn coquettishly perched sideways on the head, as depicted in the artworks of Gainsborough, or with the brim turned up and pinned with a satin cockade, as shown by the French portraitist Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun.

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