Dress, Wedding
- Object Name:
- Dress, Wedding
- Object ID:
- 1963.039.019
- Date:
- circa 1897
- Description:
- Wedding Dress. White dotted net and embroidered net two-piece wedding dress, lined with white taffeta. Fitted and boned bodice, opened down back, high, lightly bones collar piped with blue satin and trimmed with narrow satin ribbon bows, three-quarter sleeves also so trimmed. Long skirt, slight train, wide, tucked satin ribbon waistband trimmed with embroudered net and narrow satin ribbons, very deep flounce over tulle and taffeta.
- Material:
- Textile
Skeletal - 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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