The caption focuses us on what we’ve already noticed looking at the picture – the odd, sculptural hat that is blending into this lady’s hair. It is hard to distinguish between the hat’s material and the two curls on her forehead. In the fashion photographs that Arbus once made, the hat would have been framed in a careful composition, but here Arbus photographs the woman crossing the road in a picture that has more in common with her earliest work , for which she used a 35mm camera photographing on the street. And like her picture 'Four People at a Gallery Opening 1968', this portrait reveals Arbus’s tendency to mock the upper classes. As alongside her sullen expression and expensive clothing and accessories, the lady’s elaborate headwear seems all the more strange.