The price of that Chip hat! Regency style!

One of our readers asked this morning to provide clarity on the price of a chip hat during Regency period.

Here is a jpeg of the page in ENGLISH WOMENS' CLOTHING OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY BY C. W. Cunningham, page 50.

The pricing is for a hat made in approximately 1817.

Chip could be plaited or woven just like straw but was sturdier, less flexible. Once formed into a sort of basket in whatever shape was currently fashionable, it could be bleached or colored, then trimmed as desired.

Here are a few examples:

LADY'S CHIP STRAW RIDING HAT, AMERICAN, 1810-1820 1814 Walking outfit, Straw hat.Ackermanns' Pricing of Chip hats, 18-20 s.Salisbury and Winchester Journal, 11.10.1817