Floral Hats: Toque

Label: “Otti Moll/original/La Jolla/California” 1960-62 Cloth flowers; silk ribbon and binding Gift of Alice K. Miller and Philip Klauber Flowers: Hydrangea, hyacinth

“The hat that’s a flower...like putting your head in an enormous chrysanthemum,” was Vogue’s description of the fashionable hat. Horticultural headgear was extremely popular in the early 1960s and this toque is a typical example of the floral hat of the period. This hat is the creation of Otti Moll, a La Jolla milliner. Her business at 5749 La Jolla Boulevard was listed from 1950-62 and then again from 1964-71.