Dress, Wedding
- Object Name:
- Dress, Wedding
- Object ID:
- 1963.039.017
- Date:
- circa 1895
- Description:
- Wedding Dress. Tw- piece white lace, marquisette, taffeta and tulle wedding dress. Bodice of Valenciennes lace over white taffets, gathered onto yoke and collar of Point lace with gold taffeta piping. Full puffed sleeves gathered into band of the point with the piping, long, tight cuff with the point and piping at wrist. Full, long pleated marquisette skirt with 15 inserts of point lace from hem up 12", over tulle and wite taffeta underskirts, accordion-pleated taffeta ruffle.
- Material:
- Textile
- 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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