Help with SUZY Cloche

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secondlooks

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this was sold to me as 20s but I think it's 40s, right?
Also, do you think this could be THE famous Mme Suzy??
I know it is not her Paris label but I found where she came to the states in 1941 and designed some hats for a NY store. I know in her perfume presentations she used Pink lettering in her signature....
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the decorations on each side are faceted buttons,the body looks like a wool jersey
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Those cloche styles came and went, there was a bliip of them in the late 40s but then again in the late 1950s, which is perhaps when this one dates from? I have a Mme Suzy hat from about 1937 with the Paris label and its a very different label. Are you sure that Mme Suzy came to NY? THere is another Susan that made hats with Roger Vivier during the war. I thought that label was 'Roger & Suzanne' or something like that.... I would have to check.
 
I found a little bit of information about Harzfeld's that might have a small clue.

The first was this 1944 obit:

VETERAN MERCHANT DIES--Kansas City (Missouri), Sieg Herzfeld, 76, who founded the first exclusive women's ready-to-wear merchandising establishment, died today. He had been ill since February 9. In 1888 Harzfeld came to Kansas City and established Harzfeld's first store in the nation to handle only women's clothing."

I then found this in a 1908 history of Kansas City, Missouri:

"In the family were four children, one of whom is deceased. One son, Sieg Harzfeld, is proprietor of the Parisian Cloak Company of Kansas City and also has other stores in various parts of the country..."

I then found this 1931 article:

"TRIPS ABROAD TOTAL 400,000 MILES--Kansas City; A 400,000-mile trip might sound like a visit to Mars or the moon but Mr. and Mrs. Sieg Harzfeld of Kansas City have just crossed that mark with their return from their thirty-seventh trip abroad. When the Harzfelds go abroad they make a lark of it. They never plan where they will stop, but just wander from one village or city to another, stopping wherever and as long as they want. 'We usually stay about three months on these trips and it is our recreation,' Mr. Harzfeld said. 'We never tire of these voyages.' "

From the "Parisian" Cloak Company and their extensive travel, I think it might be safe to assume that the Harzfelds shopped in Paris for some of their exclusive women's fashions.
 
interesting information Lynne. I will have to ask my designer friend from KC, she knows pretty much what designers the best stores carried. This is my friend who just turned 80.
 
In trying to tie "Suzy" to "Mme. Suzy" I found a small interesting note in a 1934 newspaper:

[/i]"Copies of hats made by Mme. Suzy, Paris modiste, for Princess Marina of Greece, fiancee of Prince George of England, are to be sold on this side of the Atlantic by an enterprising firm. Those hats are mostly tailored toque types made in velvet and felt."[/i]
Back to looking...
 
There were at least three French milliner's called Suzanne who were making hats during the same time-frame as Suzy- Suzanne Remy and Suzanne Talbot. There are examples of Talbot's hats in museum collections and L'Officiel has quite a lot of references to her work.

I'd like to see more detail on the inside of this hat. Wool jersey? Does the fabric have a stretch to it? The Hartzfeld label is throwing me a bit as it looks very Thirties but it was common to use company labels through decades. The Suzy label appears to be later in font design.
 
Yes, I spent a good while looking over the L'Officiel site yesterday and saw many examples.
here are a couple more pics, I have not yet taken one of the interior. the wool knit has just a little stretch.

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I have a hat with that very same Suzy label. Mine is from Neiman Marcus. It has the 50s NM label from the VFG label resource.

It also has similar type bead work, only they are really more like metal studs and are much smaller. My hat is very differnt though, in as much as it is a very colorful floral print.
 
You know I think this might be a helmet style hat from the early mid 1960's because of the jersey knit, the sectional pattern, border rim and that heavy embellishment on both sides. Sort of in the Op-Art/Courreges department.
 
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