On March 26, 1883, Miss Kate Fearing Strong attended Mrs. Alva Vanderbilt’s costume ball as a white cat. Her extravagant costume, described in detail by The New York Times, included a bodice “formed of rows of white cat’s heads” and an overskirt “made entirely of white cat’s tails sewed on a dark background” (March 27, 1883). Topping it off was a headdress featuring a taxidermied cat head. In this chapter Sweigart-Gallagher discusses the costume and Strong’s photograph within its historical context, identifying how Strong and her costume performed a reversal of a Victorian/Gilded Age fascination with anthropomorphized nonhuman animals in favor of a zoomorphic use of taxidermy. Sweigart-Gallagher also explores how the image of Strong and her costume can be read in our own time, now divorced from its original context and circulating in digital spaces. Sweigart-Gallagher argues that in our present moment, the cat’s body—quite literally a “pussy hat”—transform Strong into a hypersexualized object (just another pussy on the web) and a sexually empowered woman boldly crafting her own image, particularly when considered alongside other elements of Strong’s costume.