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Title Wedding Dress
Catalog Number 1983.015.0004
Object Name Gown, Wedding
Description Wedding dress of white cotton lawn.

a - Bodice has high collar of lace; center back closure. Round yoke of lace insertion in lawn, bordered with a ruffle of insertion in lawn, faux-knotting at center front. Bodice is tucked vertically to yoke. Back pleated at waist. Long sleeves tucked horizontally over upper arm, with horizontal insertions over lower arm, ending in a lace ruffle. (Shelf P-4)

b - Skirt is tucked all around hips and sewn to lace-covered waistband. Center back hook/eye closure. Two rows of inserted lace at knee level in chevron pattern; panel below tucked vertically down from lace, with two more horizontal rows of lace insertion. (Rack 3)
Date 1905
People Ross, Grace Louise Fenton
Notes

Wedding Dress (1905)