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Description: | Deep cream satin figured with vine leaves, and cream twilled silk, trimmed with lace.
Bodice lined with cream figured cotton. Pointed waistline and two boned darts at bust. CF fastening with holes for lacing, and braid lace, from waist to bust, hooks and eyes from bust to high neck with narrow standing band. Inner belt fastening with hooks and eyes. Padding for bust. Elbow length sleeves. Separate skirt fastening CB. Front skirt over stiff coarse muslin foundation, covered except at lower edge with three broad twilled silk frills. Bottom front skirt also covered with twilled silk, and with two pleated frills at lower edge, the top one sewn to form a row of rosettes. Underneath skirt are two steel half-hoops at back with ties. Overskirt forms bustle shape at back. Side and bottom edges trimmed with twilled silk frill and lined with muslin and lace frill like lining. Rectnagular pad inside back waist.
Wreath : Two curved sprays of myrtle and white heather.
See also Mittens 1957.198/3
Technique: Figured
Material: satin
Material: silk
Material: cotton
Material: lace
wedding dress & wreath by Misses Watson, 1883, (1957.198/3). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.20357 | Go to resource |
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