This lot consists of two hats.

In the early 1950s, while attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Roy Halston Frowick (American, 1932-1990) began a business designing and making women's hats. He gained a well-known clientele designing for the Chicago elite. He later became the head milliner for high-end New York City department store Bergdorf Goodman. His fame rose when he designed the pill-box hat that Jacqueline Kennedy wore to the inauguration of her husband, President John F. Kennedy, in 1961. In the late 1960s, Halston made the transition to women's clothing, opening a boutique on Madison Avenue in New York, and started a ready-to-wear line eventually rising to international fame in the 1970s with countless licensing agreements. 

The 1972 bucket hats included in this lot feature Ultrasuede, a material that became central to Halston’s oeuvre, first seen by the designer on Issey Miyake’s runway in 1971. An example of these hats was featured on the cover of Newsweek, August 21, 1972, and reprinted in Halston, ed. Steven Bluttal (Phaidon Press, 2001), p. 169.

THE FIRST
Green Ultrasuede bucket hat with tiered top stitching and belt loop detail. 
Label: Halston
Size Label: Unlabeled

Approximate Measurements:
Sweatband Circumference: 20.5"

THE SECOND
Peach ultrasuede bucket hat with tiered top stitching and belt loop detail.
Label: Halston
Retail Label: Saks Fifth Avenue
Size Label: Unlabeled

Approximate Measurements:
Sweatband Circumference: 21.25"