Dress, Wedding
- Object Name:
- Dress, Wedding
- Object ID:
- 1997.002
- Creator:
- Probably Mary Jane Langley Ayers
- Place of Origin:
- Barnstead, NH/New Durham, NH
- Date:
- circa 1853
- Description:
- Wedding Dress. c. 1853. Cheangeable, green and bronze shot silk, with brown and green vertical stripes. Skirt basted to bodice (pin holes suggest at one time the skirt was sewn to the bodice, following the contours of the bodice). Pleated skirt and bodice; shirred section on lower front of bodice. Round neck. Three-quarter length bell sleeves, with caps. Two zigzag rows on sleeve ends and cap ends. Dress is fully lined: skirt and sleeves with brown polished cotton, bodice with brown cotton. Six stays in bodice. Back hook and eye closure (20 sets). Skirt loops present. Medium adult woman's size.
- Material:
- Textile
Silk - Provenance:
- Dress was found among possessions of donor's aunt.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Carolyn Page
- People:
- Langley, Mary J. (1829-1905)
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