Wedding day dress
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Title
Wedding day dress
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)
Creator
unknown
Source
RS 21/07/009
Publisher
Iowa State University Library Special Collections: http://www.add.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/index.html
Date
1851
2004-09-10
Rights
U.S. and international copyright laws protect this digital image. Commercial use or distribution of the image is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder. For permission to use the digital image, please contact Iowa State University Library Special Collections at archives@iastate.edu For reproductions see: http://www.add.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/services/photfees.html
Relation
Fashion Illustration Collection, 1776-1979 (bulk 1804-1935); http://www.add.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/arch/rgrp/21-7-9.html
Format
Fashion illustration; 15.2x25.4 cm
Printed plates, with mechanized color added
Type
Image
Identifier
21-7-9.Barton.4-23-1
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