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Description: | Wedding outfit with six parts.
Dress : Cream silk, high waisted with long, straight sleeves and a high neck. Cream machine lace overlays the bodice and forms a short over skirt. Decorated with tiny pearls and beads scattered over the bodice, cuffs, back seam and on the skirt in a large bow motif. Fastened at CB with hooks and pop-fasteners, lightly boned around these fastenings. Bodice lined with white cotton, skirt with white silk.
Train : Matching cream silk, pleated into the shoulders to be attached to the dress by hooks. Decorated along the edges with beads and pearls, with a large chiffon bow and a spray of orange blossom placed at teh end of the train.
Veil and headdress : Fine net veil embroidered with sprays of flowers in a fluffy white silk, attached to a wired headdress decorated with imitation orange blossom.
Gloves : Pair of fine silky cream short gloves.
Shoes : Pair of cream satin shoes, very slim with narrow toes and small louis heels. Fastened with narrow ribbon ties and decorated with chiffon rosettes at the toe.
Sash : Sash of cream silk ribbon.
Technique: embroidering
Material: silk
Material: cotton
Material: chiffon
Material: net
Material: wire
Material: satin | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.19249 | Go to resource |
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