Pre 1900 Tam's

[OC Richard]

Did you look at the historical example, that was 13.3 inches in diameter, laid flat? I suspect it’s much “flopper” than you might expect.

http://nms.scran.ac.uk/database/reco...-100-002-860-C

I'll always follow period images which often have a known date of creation, place of creation, and subject over museum objects which generally have no provenance other than educated guesswork, or attached stories which may have been invented at a much later time.

Yes big bonnets existed in the past! But I can't recall seeing any such in the 18th century. The 19th century, yes.