Dress, Wedding

Object Name:

Dress, Wedding

Object ID:

1962.004 a-b

Date:

1850-1855

Description:

Wedding Dress. Changeable blue and gold silk taffeta dress (floats of color, warp blue, weft whitish), fitted and boned bodice, padded bust, buttoned down front, blue buttons with two roses. Pagoda sleeves, shirred at shoulder, two bands of darker blue and gold ribbon shirred onto sleeve, muslin undersleeves with English Broderie cuffs and collar. Lined with tan linen twill. Full skirt gathered onto bodice, lined with tan glazed cotton, hem tape.

a--dress
b--collar

Material:

Textile
Silk
Linen
Cotton

Provenance:

Worn by grandmother of donor, Martha H. Farnum at her wedding to George W. Page. G. W. Page descendant of the Pages who settled Page's Corner (Dunbarton) in 1751.

Credit Line:

Gift of Alvin P. Dunbar

People:

Farnum, Martha