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Description: | The fabric of this wedding dress was a gift from an Indian Prince, the Thakur Sahib of Rajkot, to the wife of the Headmaster of Highgate school as a token of his gratitude for her to kindness to his younger son, who was a pupil at the school. When his son contracted tuberculosis she visted him in hospital until his death. She kept the gold sari for her daughter to have made up into a wedding dress and it was used in 1931. The bride recalled the splendor of the dress when she was 'married on a November day of pale golden sunshine'. She wore it with a cap and veil purchased in Paris. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Museum of London | Rights holder: | Museum of London | Subjects: | Home and Family | Temporal: | 1931 | Source: | Museum of London | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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