Dress, Wedding
- Object Name:
- Dress, Wedding
- Object ID:
- 1967.015.01 a-b
- Place of Origin:
- 80 Boylston St., Boston MA
- Date:
- 1887
- Description:
- Wedding Dress. Cream color faille bodice and skirt. Bodice fitted and boned, laces down front, pointed fronts with squared tiny peplum back. Three-quarter sleeves, bodice and sleeves trimmed with Honiton lace. Inside belt marked as above. Stand-up collar. Long, very full train skirt pleated into belt at front. Back very full puffed back at waist, falling in folds, set in bustle back of stiffened cotton with four bones, falling to bottom of shirt and edged with fine lace. Crinoline lining at back with double pleated ruffles with wide lace to train then tripple and quadruple ruffles. Front of skirt lined with tan silk. Heavy hooks on bodice and skirt to hold skirt up.
- Material:
- Textile
Silk
Cotton - Provenance:
- Gift of Lucia Cartland Hale and Mary Cartland Lomison. From wedding outfit worn by Julia Hilliard Wallingford. Donated with other items that belonged to Julia Hilliard Wallingford of Dover, NH, who married Charles Sumner Cartland, April 27, 1887, in Wellesley, MA. Charles worked as a banker residing in Dover, NH, and Julia was living in Wellesley at the time they were married.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Lucia C. Hale and Mary C. Lomison
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