1940s Rare Bes-Ben Butterfly & Leaf Cloche Hat designer-jean-paul-gaultier The hips flare ou from

The hips flare ou from there even more then the photos portray - if you lay the top flat and flip up on side of that lower area you see that a true circle is created

The skirt flares out and has miles and miles of hand screened silk chiffon

Modern Sizing equivalent: XS-MED

The bodice is amazing with an interior cup over which those peaked panels wing out dramatically to the side

if not all pieces with that label are one of a kind and were fitted to the client

1940s Rare Bes-Ben Butterfly & Leaf Cloche Hat designer-jean-paul-gaultier The hips flare ou fromThis is an incredibly rare and wondrous hat from the famed Milliner Benjamin B. Green Field, who was known as "The mad Hatter" and was the genius behind the Bes Ben label. The Bes Ben hats are perhaps the most coveted amongst hat lovers and the crazier the hat the better. He was known for his fantastical and outrageous creations and used objects and materials never before used in hat making. Even at the time his hats cost from $37 to $1000, remarkable