20. 1970s Wedding Dress with Capelet and Hat · For Better and For Worse

ID#: VC2005003
Date: 1977-8
Culture: American
Materials: chiffon, crepe lining, matching covered buttons, metal hooks and eyes

This dress and matching shoulder drape and hat were worn by sisters Cindy Lipschutz Jacobson (married in 1977) and Karen Lipschutz Goodis (Vassar class of 1973, married in 1978) (daughters of Elaine Lipschutz, Lecturer Emerita in Education) within a year of each other. Cindy wore the hat, and Karen wore a veil.

- Arden Kirkland (Vassar class of 1993)

The spring 2013 historic clothing exhibition at Vassar College was entitled "For Better and For Worse: Sixteen Decades of Wedding Wear at Vassar," and was curated by Arden Kirkland (VC Class of 1993) and Faculty Emeritus Holly K. Hummel, <br /><br />
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In 2007, Vassar received a donation of four wedding dresses from the same Vassar familyâ€”three generations of dresses. The exhibition included these four dresses, plus a fifth dress on loan to represent the fourth generation, as well as other wedding wear and photographs collected over the years. The exhibition explored changing views of marriage over the last 160 years, including timely views on marriage equality.<br /><br />
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The exhibition took place in the Palmer Gallery in the College Center, Main Building, at Vassar, from May 23 - June 9, 2013.

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Karen Lipschutz Goodis on her wedding day

Cindy Lipschutz Jacobson on her wedding day