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Wedding day dress Item Info
- Title:
- Wedding day dress
- Date Created:
- 1851
- Description:
- Wedding day dresses, showing heavily decorated bodices with lace chemisettes and overlays, still emphasizing a small waist. Wedding dress has jewel neckline, long sleeves with ruffle cuffs, a triple layered full skirt, and a full length veil attached to a floral headpiece. The bridesmaid's (?) dress has a bateau neckline, short sleeves, and a paneled overskirt ending at the knee, each panel is edged with lace ruffles and trimmed with daisies; the underskirt is full length, plain on top, and has 3 rows of ruffles above the hem. The young woman has a lace edged, bateau neckline, yoked waistline, and a full skirt. The other women's hair is fairly simple and decorated with flowers. (Published for Le Moniteur de la Mode, by L.G. Levy and Company, Philadelphia).
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing and dress Costume Fashion Fashion prints Fashion drawing
- Language:
- zxx
- Source:
- Mary A. Barton fashion illustration collection
- Call Number:
- RS 21/7/9
- Finding Aid Permalink:
- https://n2t.net/ark:/87292/w98n57
- Contributing Institution:
- Iowa State University. Special Collections and University Archives
- Publisher:
- Iowa State University. Library
- Extent:
- 15.2x25.4 cm
- Genre:
- fashion plates
- Type:
- Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Digital Collection Title:
- Mary A. Barton fashion illustration collection
- Digital Collection Permalink:
- https://n2t.net/ark:/87292/w9jh3d25v
- Identifier:
- fashionplates133
- Filename:
- 21-7-9_barton_4-23-1.jpg
- Item Permalink:
- https://n2t.net/ark:/87292/w9h39d
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Wedding day dress", Mary A. Barton Fashion Illustration Collection, Iowa State University Library Digital Collections
- Reference Link:
- https://n2t.net/ark:/87292/w9h39d
Rights
- Rights:
- This item is protected by copyright and related rights. You are free to use this item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses, please obtain permission from Iowa State University Library Special Collections and University Archives.