Wedding Dress
1856 (made)
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Purple-blue shot silk wedding dress with attached bodice and skirt. Full length, and bell-shaped skirt devoid of trimming. Bodice with fan-pleating and smocking in the front, double rouleaux around the waist seam. Skirt fastening slightly to one side. Buttons in a gold basket-weave design down the front. Bodice hooks together with concealed hook and eye fastenings. Relatively straight cut sleeves with short wristband cuffs. White lace collar. Fully lined with white cotton. Blue brush braid around the skirt hem, and two bones at side underarm seams.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Shot silk, boned, lined with cotton, and lace |
| Brief description | Shot silk wedding dress with attached bodice and skirt, Great Britain, 1856 |
| Physical description | Purple-blue shot silk wedding dress with attached bodice and skirt. Full length, and bell-shaped skirt devoid of trimming. Bodice with fan-pleating and smocking in the front, double rouleaux around the waist seam. Skirt fastening slightly to one side. Buttons in a gold basket-weave design down the front. Bodice hooks together with concealed hook and eye fastenings. Relatively straight cut sleeves with short wristband cuffs. White lace collar. Fully lined with white cotton. Blue brush braid around the skirt hem, and two bones at side underarm seams. |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Credit line | Given by Miss J.M.Lunnon. |
| Object history | This dress was worn by Jemima Margaret Jay for her marriage to George Francis York in 1856 at the Parish Church of St George, Bloomsbury, Middlesex. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | T.210-1998 |
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| Record created | August 2, 2007 |
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