Wedding day dress

Wedding day dress

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)

unknown

RS 21/07/009

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1851

2004-09-10

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Fashion illustration; 15.2x25.4 cm

Printed plates, with mechanized color added

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21-7-9.Barton.4-23-1

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