Dress, Wedding
- Object Name:
- Dress, Wedding
- Object ID:
- 1970.022.02
- Date:
- circa 1895
- Description:
- Wedding Dress of Stella Thompson. Two-piece, white silk crepe. Bodice fitted and boned, shirred vertically, front and back forming a yoke effect. Opened down front with band of silk with two rows of ruching down sides of band. High, shirred collar with ruching. Long, fitted sleeves with fullness down seam, two ruffles at shoulder. Folded belt with five pearl and cut steel buckles. Lined with white cotton. Long, flowing skirt, slightly longer and greater fullness at back. Lined with polished white cotton, band of buckrum around hem and bound with white velvet.
- Material:
- Textile
Silk
Cotton
Velvet
Skeletal - Provenance:
- Wedding dress of Stella Thompson, the donor.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of the Estate of Stella Thompson
- People:
- Thompson, Stella T. (1875-1968)
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