{"id":3261,"date":"2021-11-07T17:15:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T17:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yourplanbproductions.com\/khs2025\/?p=3261"},"modified":"2022-11-08T17:31:26","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T17:31:26","slug":"bes-ben-millinery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourplanbproductions.com\/khs2025\/bes-ben-millinery\/","title":{"rendered":"Bes-Ben Millinery"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-3261\" data-postid=\"3261\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-3261 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_fjd1538 tb_first tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col-full tb_zls6539 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_loqz674   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>Bes-Ben Hats<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>1990.4.1, 1999.25, 2001.5.1, 2015.12<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Through the 1960s, hats were worn daily by most women. The Kenilworth Historical Society&#8217;s costume collection contains over three dozen women&#8217;s hats. Most notably, KHS has four hats from the famed millinery Bes-Ben, donated by long-time Kenilworth resident, Marie Bonnell. Dubbed Chicago&#8217;s &#8220;Mad Hatter&#8221;, Benjamin Green-Field of Bes-Ben, designed eccentric and flamboyant hats popular among the region&#8217;s affluent women and numerous celebrities, including Hedda Hopper, Marlene Dietrich, and Elizabeth Taylor. Green-field was known for decorating his hats with unusual items such as kitchen utensils, and a variety of figures, including miniature animals, cigarette packs, and skyscrapers. Bes-Ben hat prices ranged from $80 to $1,000. Once a year, women lined up outside his flagship shop at 938 N. 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Dubbed Chicago&#8217;s &#8220;Mad Hatter&#8221;, Benjamin Green-Field of Bes-Ben, designed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3271,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_view_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artifacts","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/yourplanbproductions.com\/khs2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Picture5.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourplanbproductions.com\/khs2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourplanbproductions.com\/khs2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourplanbproductions.com\/khs2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourplanbproductions.com\/khs2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourplanbproductions.com\/khs2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3261"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/yourplanbproductions.com\/khs2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3273,"href":"https:\/\/yourplanbproductions.com\/khs2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261\/revisions\/3273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourplanbproductions.com\/khs2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourplanbproductions.com\/khs2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourplanbproductions.com\/khs2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourplanbproductions.com\/khs2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}