Description
“Not that one, Mademoiselle, the one with the roses.” In a narrow atelier off the rue Saint-Honore, the milliner always kept her finest creation in the rose-covered box on the top shelf. Brides came to look at it. Grandmothers came to remember. A young seamstress once climbed the ladder after hours just to lift the lid and peek, then went home and dreamed in pink silk all night long.
This little hat box borrows that sense of ceremony. Its sides bloom with painted roses and fine floral accents, and inside waits a tiny hat, as though someone has just returned from the races and set it carefully away. It is a graceful gift for Mother’s Day, for a friend who wears a hat to every garden party, or for a collector of millinery miniatures. Let it sit on a dressing table where the lid can be lifted again and again.
At a glance
- Shaped as a round hat box covered in painted roses
- Holds a miniature hat inside, a charming surprise
- Embellished with delicate floral accents
- Hand-painted Limoges porcelain made in France
- A tiny hat waits inside as a sweet surprise
- Lovely displayed with the lid set slightly ajar
For the woman whose wardrobe has never had too many hats, and never will. Present it with a ribbon in the same rose pink and watch her lift the lid twice before she says a word.
