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Photograph of Fanny Simpson, Class of 1902Fanny Simpson, another bridesmaid in Grace Woodworth’s wedding and a Vassar graduate of 1902, was a social butterfly and fashion enthusiast who donned very feminine, fashionable dress. Courtesy of Archives…

Portrait of Floy Stager Shirk, VC ex-1907, during her freshman year at Vassar, c. 1904. Courtesy of Marolyn Davenport, VC1968, her granddaughter.

Floy Stager Shirk on a horse. Courtesy of her granddaughter, Marolyn Davenport VC1968.

Photograph of unidentified group with musical instruments, wearing styles similar to VC1992008. Courtesy of Archives & Special Collections Library, Vassar College (Student Photograph Album #60, from Nellie (Wooster) Cooley, VC1886)

Portrait photograph of Sallie Tucker Blake, VC Class of 1879. Courtesy of Archives & Special Collections Library, Vassar College (Student Photograph Album #22)

Full length photograph of Sallie Tucker Blake, VC Class of 1879. Courtesy of Archives & Special Collections Library, Vassar College (Student Photograph Album #22)

Photograph of Gertie Palmer in her Vassar graduation dress, 1879, the same year as Sallie Tucker Blake, who wore VC1984001. Courtesy of Archives & Special Collections Library, Vassar College (Student Photograph Album #27)

Photograph of unidentified group, wearing styles similar to the brown wool and velvet bustle dress in the collection, VC1992008.Courtesy of Archives & Special Collections Library, Vassar College (Student Photograph Album #47, from Margaret (Bagley)…

Photograph of Alice Blanchard, Alice Shore, and E. Sutter, wearing styles similar to the brown wool and velvet bustle dress in the collection, VC1992008. Courtesy of Archives & Special Collections Library, Vassar College (Student Photograph Album…

Photograph of Eliza Hamlier, wearing a style similar to the brown wool and velvet bustle dress in the collection, VC1992008. Courtesy of Archives & Special Collections Library, Vassar College (Student Photograph Album #18, from Annie M. Reed, VC…

Kathryn Keeler Sherrill carrying the Daisy Chain, 1925. Courtesy of Kathryn Keeler Sherrill VC1927. 

Creator: unknown photographer

Date: 1925

Kathryn Keeler Sherrill carrying the Daisy Chain for the commencement ceremony at Vassar College, 1925. Courtesy of Kathryn Keeler Sherrill VC 1927. 

Dorothy Kittell Hesselman VC1951 wearing her mother’s gymsuit to her own 40th reunion, in 1991. Courtesy Dorothy Kittell Hesselman VC1951. From left to right: Judith Guild Stewart, Barbara Miller Piane, Dorothy Kittell Hesselman, and Barbara…

Dorothy Reid Kittell winning a race (on the right). Courtesy Dorothy Kittell Hesselman VC1951

Date: 1905-1910

Navy blue wool gymsuit; courtesy of Special Collections, Vassar College Library. Bodice: Navy blue wool (serge?); waistband of black cotton sateen; four rows of black wool braid on collar; three rows of black wool braid on cuffs; neckline and…