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Wedding Dress - White BatisteDescription
White wedding dress, small 55" in length overall lace and machine embroidery - a lot of open cut-out work. Bodice - round neckline with 1/2" lace trim. Center front large open cut petal flower 3" across and 2-1/2" height. Center flower is 1/2" ball with 3 dimensional fabric simulating french knots - 2 smaller flowers on either side of center cut flower 1-1/2" X 1-1/2" in diameter on both sides of center cut flower. Dangling from center flower 16 satin stitched balls held together by single strand of thread making a rectangular shape - design with one additional ball at lower edge of rectangle. Repeat design on each side of center front with only 7 satin stitched balls. The shoulder line is 4-1/4" from collar lace edge to sleeve. There is insertion of 7/8" wide batiste that is machine tucked with horizontal minute tucks. Lace insertion is 1/2" wide and remaining 2-5/8" wide batiste with 1/8" tuck - at arms-eye there is 5/8" tuck. Slight gathered sleeve cap. Lace insertion and embroidery U-shaped. Lace is 1/2" wide with ruffles of lace trim on the U-shape. One is 6" and the other 7". An additional U_shape is 7". Lace ruffle on all 3 U-shapes. Insertion of machine embroidery is 1-1/2" wide and 6-1/4" long. Underarm seam has lace insertion 5/8" wide. Edges of sleeve are two one-half inch lace band - one gathered for ruffle - the other flat.
Bodice - Center front is sheer batiste with 1" width at neckline decoration - batiste strips 30" in length in center front and 1-1/2" wide at base and 1-1/4" wide at decoration at top of neck. The 2 panels of lace, one being scalloped and the other a flat daisy throughout dress. L shaped design which is reversed on either side of center front 1" wide with minute tuck - same as shoulder. Attached to that is 1/2" daisy lace. Inside the insertion L is machine embroidered oval shaped cut out stylized flower. At waistline there are three daisy lace at 1/2" wide stitched together horizontally. Three 5/8" daisy lace make the cummerbund at waist.Cotton batiste has machine embroidered daisy and cut out oval pattern 9-1/2 ovals that are reversed from the bodice which are from point to point horizontal. Four tucks 1" apart off center front lace panel from the cummerbund to the front lace bar 17" in length. Minute tucks continue and are 6" long - shorter on hipline - horizontal 5/8" daisy insertion circles skirt- diameter at this point 49". Batiste insertion 5-3/4" width and circumference is 63". An additional horizontal insertion of daisy lace circles skirt. Attached to a 2" horizontal batiste strip with 9 minute horizontal tucks. Another 5/8" daisy lace insertion 3-3/4" insertion of batiste 80" circumference. An additional panel of lace horizontal tuck and lace 3-3/8" wide. Lower edge is a ruffle of 1-1/2" of batiste attached to a 1/2" of scalloped edge daisy lace. Back closures - hook and eyes at neckline and waistline. Mother of pearl buttons 1/2" in diameter. Length of opening 21-1/2". Square neckline at back with lace edging and lace edging. Shoulder line from neckline lace ruffle 7/8" wide and 1/8" horizontal tuck repeats square neckline. An additional 5/8" daisy lace is perpendicular to waistline extends from shoulder line to waistline. Four minute tucks off of center back. From waistline insertion of eyelet batiste is 5/8" wide at waistline and is 9" at lower edge. Length if 15-1/2" long. Insertion of lace is 2" wide and 1" off of center back. 15 tucks on center back. An A line shape skirt with cut out machine embroidery at hip line. Button holes are 3/8" wide machine made - one reconstructed.