But What Type Of Hat Is It?

Reading Flaubert's Madame Bovary, I came across this description of a hat:

"His was one of those composite pieces of headgear in which you may trace features of bearskin, lancer-cap and bowler, night-cap and otterskin: one of those pathetic objects that are deeply expressive in their dumb ugliness, like an idiot's face. An oval splayed out with whale-bone, it started off with three pompons; these were followed by lozenges of velvet and rabbit's fur alternately, separated by a red band, and after that came a kind of bag ending in a polygon of cardboard with intricate braiding on it; and from this there hung down like a tassel, at the end of a long, too slender cord, a little sheaf of gold threads. It was a new cap, with a shiny peak."

And yet, for all of that descriptive language, I have absolutely no idea what this hat looks like. Perhaps something has been lost in translation, but how is it possible that I can read an entire paragraph in my mother tongue, understand all of the words, clauses, sentences, etc., and still not actually understand it. Have men's hat fashions become so mundane that I am just not able to imagine a hat so outlandish? Can anyone out there envision this hat? Can anyone make a drawing of this hat? Better yet, can anyone out there actually make me such a hat? Is there a milliner in the house? If I had such a hat, I would most certainly wear it. At least once.