Wedding Dress

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Wedding Dress

Entry/Object ID

CW 104

Description

Women’s off-white silk satin wedding dress. Fitted hip-length bodice, high neck, long sleeves, button closure, organdy ruffles and swags at neck and wrist. Long skirt with train, pleats and swags. Cartridge pleats at waist. Petticoat is in two pieces; flounced train, buttons to floor-length skirt. [Orange blossoms and bonnet worn at Quaker wedding]

Made/Created

Date made

1881

Provenance

Notes

Donor: Miss Natalie Kimber, September 1949.