Dress, Wedding
- Object Name:
- Dress, Wedding
- Object ID:
- 1965.044.01
- Place of Origin:
- Boston, MA
- Date:
- 1834
- Description:
- Wedding Dress. Said to have been worn by Jane Means Appleton Pierce (1806-1863). Grey watered silk with pattern of grey and black leaves. Two-piece dress with extra bodice (of later period). Original bodice lightly boned, fitted with points front and back. Opened down front; grey cut steel buttons. Wide, bell-shaped sleeves lined with white taffeta. Band of material with black velvet around part of sleeve bottom. Lined with tan cotton with breast pads. Long, full skirt, lined with grey taffeta; pleated dust ruffle of black lace. Skirt has been altered by adding black satin panel in front, trimmed with black lace and black bread fringe. Additional bodice, heavily boned, trimmed with beading and black lace around bottom. Sleeves slightly puffed at shoulder. Waistband bears label of M.A. Driscoll, Boston.
- Material:
- Textile
Silk
Skeletal
Metal - Provenance:
- Purchased by donor's mother in early 20th century from a Concord, NH, seamstress, who had it from her seamstress mother.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Margaret Jackman Gesen
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