Wedding Dress

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Artist/Maker	Unknown
Place of origin	Massachusetts (made) usa (made)

High waisted dress of white satin, short puff sleeves, front fastening of hooks and eyes. Bodice trimmed with buttons and braid, muslin flounces at sleeves and around lower portion of skirt. The short puffed sleeves covered with muslin and with short piped cap oversleeve, the hem edged with scalloped decoration edged with piping. Back of bodice has been altered with insertions of fabric to enlarge waist size.

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Categories	Marriage Fashion Clothing Womenswear
Object type	Wedding dress
Materials and techniques	satin and muslin Satin Muslin Dress Making
Brief description	Wedding dress, ca. 1820, USA; probably Massachusetts. Worn by Charlotte Cooley for her marriage to Cyrus Sullivan Clark. White satin and muslin with flounces and braid trim
Physical description	High waisted dress of white satin, short puff sleeves, front fastening of hooks and eyes. Bodice trimmed with buttons and braid, muslin flounces at sleeves and around lower portion of skirt. The short puffed sleeves covered with muslin and with short piped cap oversleeve, the hem edged with scalloped decoration edged with piping. Back of bodice has been altered with insertions of fabric to enlarge waist size.
Dimensions	Weight: 0.88kg Length: 137.2cm (Note: measurement converted from department register) Across shoulders width: 38.1cm (Note: measurement converted from department register) Waist width: 35.6cm (Note: measurement converted from department register)
Credit line	Given by Mrs Campbell
Object history	This dress was worn by Charlotte Cooley for her marriage to Cyrus Sullivan Clark of Portland. The family lived in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. It was donated by her great-grandaughter, who also donated the wedding dresses of Cyrus and Charlotte Clark's daughter (1867, see T.37&A-1951), their granddaughter (1900, see T.38-1951), and her own 1924 dress (T.39-1951).
Collection	Textiles and Fashion Collection
Accession number	T.36-1951

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Record created	June 22, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O251124/wedding-dress-unknown/

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