1880 Two-Tone Silk Wedding Dress
Two-tone beige/tan silk dress having a front laced corselet on the silk lace-trimmed bodice and a back mother-of-pearl button closure. The skirt front is trimmed with a wide horizontally pleated and gathered band above a box-pleated flounce and the back is gathered into a dropped bustle
HCT.1992.718.4ab
1880
1900s Gray/Pink Wool Wedding Dress
Gray wool twill two-piece dress with pink silk taffeta collar, yoke and cuff detail, trimmed with lace.
Bodice. Hook and eye closing at left side. Short bodice with blouson insert at center front and pink pin-tucked silk yoke. Long sleeves with pink silk inserted puffs at wrists and pointed cuffs with off-white lace applique. Four inverted pleats at center back. Brown cotton lining with princess line seams instead of inverted pleats like outer layer. Bound edges. Boning with pink casing. Underbodice with hook and eye center front closure.
Skirt. Long gored skirt with 8" double flounce with 3 rows of top-stitching at hemline. Placket at center back, 2 large pleats on both center back panels. Brown lining with hand-overcast seams. Brown velvet bound hem.
Collar. Pink silk detachable 3" stand-up collar with pin-tucks and off-white applique.
Belt. 1 1/2" shaped belt with top-stitching and pointed edges.
HCT.1986.187.1a-d
1902
1907 Lace and Silk Wedding Dress
An off white silk wedding dress, consisting of a bodice and skirt, from 1907. Bodice and skirt have an overlay of Battenberg lace of flowers and scrolls in the same beige color as the silk. Bodice has a center front piece of hand painted organza attached to right side that extends around the neck to form the high collar, which is trimmed in lace scrolls, pink and green silk ribbon and a gathered organza ruffle on the edge. The skirt is made of the same silk and lace as bodice with a small train with organza ruffle and smaller silk ruffle at the hem.
HCT.2007.15.2a-c
1907
1905 Pineapple Cloth Wedding Dress
Pina cloth (pineapple fiber) wedding dress.
Blouse (bodice) : waist length pigeon pout bodice, longer in front- shorter in back; high band lace collar; 3/4 full balloon sleeves with narrow forearm band, which is trimmed with 9 rows of small ruffles; V shape center front and center back panel in vertical pin-tucks, trimmed with wide V rows of lace; shoulders trimmed with ruching, from here the side front and back panels are folded into tucks ending at the waistband; center back hook/eye closure; lined in silk satin fabric; waistband has eyes to hook the skirt to bodice.
Outer skirt : floor length with slight train; full skirt : flat front and gathered fullness at back; front decorated with two vertical bands stitched on at waistband and at calf length, these bands are pleated tucks ending in a knot with a flounce and an attached small ruffle; bottom of skirt trimmed with 6 rows of small ruffles; center back closure at waistband
Inner skirt : off-white silk satin material; 8 gore underskirt with flat front panel and fullness at the back; floor length with a slight train; bottom of skirt trimmed with 2 small flounces; closure at center back, opening of closure has pineapple material attached to it.
Belt: around 2 wide; off-white material covered with pineapple fabric; it consists of horizontal pleated tucks; the belt has a V shape, thus narrowing toward the back; center back 3 hook/eye closure
Collar : around 2 wide; off-white material covered with pineapple fabric; it consists of small vertical pleated tucks; slight V shape; center back 2 hook/eye closure.
HCT.1998.27.1a-g
1905
1910 Silk Wedding Dress
Wedding dress of ivory silk satin, gauze and lace. Silk satin gown with gauze overlay on skirt, gathered with satin skirt in back just below knee height. Front edge of gauze overlay on skirt ends around knee height. Gauze overlay on skirt is banded with a wide satin band around bottom edge. Gored skirt is gathered at center back. Bodice portion has deep "V" inset of lace over square satin bodice coming up into a high necked collar with satin and gauve pleating on either side of "V". Sleeves are ruched gauze with a satin band at elbow and a 3/4 length lace under sleeve. Pleated satin waistband. Gown closes at center back with hooks and eyes. Lined with light silk taffeta. Underskirt of light silk taffeta with pleated hem.
HCT.1986.154.1ab
1910
1919 White Silk Wedding Dress
French silk off-white calf length wedding gown with metallic lace panels on sleeves and near hem. Below knee-length wedding dress with considerable hand stitching on the silk outer layer and sewing machine used for cotton batiste underlining and major seams.
Scoop neckline with hand-beading including bugle beads surrounding the neckline. Heavy beading in floral and leaf motifs also surround the neckline, front and back. Blouson bodice with pleats going into neckline in the front and soft easing/gathers into neckline at back. One set of side front pleats on left and right has white bugle beads hand sewn to edge of pleats. Blouson stops at waistline in back but extends below waist to high hip in front becoming part of a three pleat cummerbund effect (loose, not fitted) that surrounds the waist and abdomen or high hip area. Bugle beads hand stitched to lower edge of cummerbund panel around garment and to top edge of cummerbund in the back. Seven snaps with one hook and eye at waistline form center back closure.
Cap sleeve in silk with seams just below shoulder in front and back from neckline to sleeve cap edge with white or clean bugle beads along each seam as well as edge of cap sleeve. Entire garment is underlined with cotton batiste. The short sleeve extension beyond the silk cap sleeve is sewn to the cotton batiste under layer. A five inch wide panel of taupe embroidered lace extends beyond the silk cap sleeve. One and a half inch wide hem edge of sleeve in off white silk is sewn to bottom edge of taupe lace.
Overskirt in silk has unpressed soft pleats about 1.5 inches wide and sewn to the cotton batiste underlayer at the hem forming a balloon hem with the silk layer folding under and turning up about 4" to the underside of the batiste underlining. Balloon hem effect is hand stitched in place.
Three separate panels of silk fabric, one at each side and one at center back, hand from waist. Side panels in off white silk, self fabric, are 14 inch wide and extend to near hem. Each has soft, unpressed 1/5" wide box pleats. At hem edge is a five inch wide panel of taupe embroidered lace like that on the sleeves. Bugle beads are hand-stitched to the side edges of the panels and on the bottom edge of the lace panel. Two inch white fringe is attached to the hem edges of the side panels. The back panel consists of two five inch wide strips of silk which overlap at the top edge and are secured to the main garment with snaps. The panels hand separately but are tacked together in one location near the hem edge which is gathered in a circle to which a 3.5" beaded tassel is attached. Bugle beads are also hand-stitched along the edge of each panel.
HCT.2013.11.1
1919
1922 Silk Satin and Lace Wedding Dress
An off-white satin dress with lace overlay (full front, top part in back); tubular silhouette; calf length; round neckline trimmed with satin; low waist line, enhance by wide satin sash ending in a bow on the left side; set-in cap sleeves, end of cap sleeves attached lace butterfly wings with satin wristband; silk satin train starting at shoulders.
HCT.1999.19.2a
1922
1920s White Beaded Wedding Dress
Off-white silk crepe, straight cut wedding dress. Round neck, sleeveless. Rhinestone studs in the body of the dress, clear and white beaded floral vine along the sides and at the hem. 1925 Headpiece designed for the exhibition by Jennifer Brown for Romance Studio.
HCT.1989.528.1a-e
1925
1940's Nylon Negligee
Off-White, nylon parachute robe and gown, lace trim, ankle length.
HCT.1996.12.1ab
<span>Additional fiber images and information available at <a href="http://cameo.mfa.org/wiki/1940-_1949_off_white_nylon_negligee,_cotton_lace_trim" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">the CAMEO Materials Database at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.</a></span>
1946 Nylon Wedding Dress
White nylon gown that was once parachute with a wide ballet neckline and yoke, short sleeves of lace. A lace yoke also topped the gathered skirt.
HCT.2000.20.1
1946