Wedding Dress
1898 (made)
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Wedding dress and train of ivory silk satin with pastes and pearl embroidery and chiffon trimming.
The wedding dress is in a princess line with two pleats at the back of the skirt merging into a slight train. Down the front and trimming the curved and indented hem is an embroidered bow motif in pearl and diamenté beads. Around the hem are rows of pleated lissé frills. The décolletage is square and the shoulder straps are of swathed chiffon. The dress is bound and lined and has dress preservers. It fastens with lacing down the back.
The wedding train is pleated and fastens at the back of the neck of the dress and gradually widens toward the bottom. Lined with ribbed silk and trimmed all round with a graduated band of puffed net.
The wedding dress is in a princess line with two pleats at the back of the skirt merging into a slight train. Down the front and trimming the curved and indented hem is an embroidered bow motif in pearl and diamenté beads. Around the hem are rows of pleated lissé frills. The décolletage is square and the shoulder straps are of swathed chiffon. The dress is bound and lined and has dress preservers. It fastens with lacing down the back.
The wedding train is pleated and fastens at the back of the neck of the dress and gradually widens toward the bottom. Lined with ribbed silk and trimmed all round with a graduated band of puffed net.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Embroidered silk satin with pastes, pearl and diamenté beads, chiffon, lined with silk, net |
| Brief description | Wedding dress and train of embroidered silk satin, retailed by Russell & Allen, Great Britain, 1898 |
| Physical description | Wedding dress and train of ivory silk satin with pastes and pearl embroidery and chiffon trimming. The wedding dress is in a princess line with two pleats at the back of the skirt merging into a slight train. Down the front and trimming the curved and indented hem is an embroidered bow motif in pearl and diamenté beads. Around the hem are rows of pleated lissé frills. The décolletage is square and the shoulder straps are of swathed chiffon. The dress is bound and lined and has dress preservers. It fastens with lacing down the back. The wedding train is pleated and fastens at the back of the neck of the dress and gradually widens toward the bottom. Lined with ribbed silk and trimmed all round with a graduated band of puffed net. |
| Marks and inscriptions | 'Russell & Allen' and 'Bond Street'
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| Credit line | Given by the Hon. Hugh de Beauchamp Lawson Johnston |
| Object history | Featured in 'The Queen' October 1st 1898, worn by Miss Gordon to marry Mr Lawson Johnston at the church of St John the Evangelist, Stanmore, in September 1898 |
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| Accession number | T.93&A-1959 |
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| Record created | September 11, 2008 |
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