Dress, Wedding
- Object Name:
- Dress, Wedding
- Object ID:
- 1959.078.01 a-c
- Place of Origin:
- Franklin, NH
- Date:
- 1869
- Description:
- Wedding Dress. Linen and horsehair, fine warp, heavier weft, tan and brown. Fitted body, boned at front, peplum below waist-line, opened down front with 11 buttonholes and buttons of brown satin. Lined with Wotton sateen. Ruffle of material around bottom with brown silk satin trim and on two bows at back. Drop-shoulder sleeves with ruffle and silk satin trim. Small lace collar. Skirt with pleated fullness at front, gored, small and wide ruffle at hem. Dust ruffle lined with heavy linen. Overskirt with fullness from side seams for bustle, longer at back. Shirred onto waist band. Underskirt linen lined hem, hem tape.
a--bodice.
b--underskirt.
c--overskirt/bustle. - Material:
- Textile
- Provenance:
- Worn by Mary C. Stevens (Mrs. George F. Page) for her wedding on August 31,1869, the mother of the donor, Miss Effie M. Page, Concord, NH.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Effie M. Page
- Subjects:
- Wedding clothing & dress, Wedding costume, Weddings
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