Dress, Wedding
- Object Name:
- Dress, Wedding
- Object ID:
- 1963.039.016
- Date:
- circa 1880
- Description:
- Wedding Dress. White silk faille. Fitted bodice, lightly boned, long, pointed front and small pleated peplum at back. Small stand-up collar, hooked down front with satin ribbin trim. Embroidered net lace sleeves. Lined. Ankle-length skirt, draped ruffle tomback with wide pleated panel of the silk down back. Front wide rows of the embroidered net alternating with pleated silk and trimmed with satin ribbon and ball tassels. Lined with white cotton. Bustle back.
- Material:
- Textile
Silk
Skeletal
Cotton - Provenance:
- Collected by the donor's sister, Marion L. Cass (1894-1963). Miss Cass developed the collection around a core of the personal possessions of her mother, Lillie M. (Wilson) Cass (1867-1951) and added objects passed down in neighboring Haverhill, NH, families. Later, while living and working in Littleton, NH, she devoted her spare time to expanding her collection, eventually representing over a century of changes in clothing and accessory styles.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Merwin P. Cass
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