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Wedding dress
American
about 1865
Object Place: United States
Medium/Technique
Silk
Dimensions
Overall (bodice): 49 cm (19 5/16 in.)
Length (skirt): 108 cm (42 1/2 in.)
Length (skirt): 108 cm (42 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Mary Lee, Guy Hunter Lee, Mrs. Henry Jackson, Mrs. Thornton K. Ware, and Mrs. Joseph T. Walker, in memory of Marion Glidden Dove Lee (Mrs. Francis Wilson Lee)
Accession Number49.432a-b
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsCostumes
DescriptionA wedding dress, in two parts, of slightly cream colored silk; (a) bodice, boned and fitted, coming to deep point center front and center back, buttoned down center front, silk cut in low flaring square neckline, long sleeves, yoke above neckline of gathered white tulle; (b) skirt, front panel slightly flaring with much fullness in multiple deep box pleats at side and back, long train at back, hooked at left of center front panel; several stains center front.