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Creator: Walther & Co.

velvet coat with tasseled tie

Creator: Mandel Brothers

mantle with velvet, standing collar, and tassles

Date: 2010

A video of students observing details of the Black Net Gown with White Satin.

Date: 2010-03-01

Students from the Historic Costume Preservation Workshop at Vassar College examine a very small bodice from the late 19th century and question whether it is for a child.

Creator: Emily Goddard

Date: 2014-01-31

A video with highlights from oral history interviews and a slideshow of images from the Vassar community, from the exhibition "For Better and For Worse: Sixteen Decades of Wedding Wear at Vassar" in May-June 2013 at Vassar College.

Creator: Schrafft's Chocolates

Cardboard chocolate box shaped like a book; Cardboard chocolate box shaped like a book with an ivory-colored cover with both a portrait of a young blonde woman wearing a sheer white wrap, and pink carnations that overlap the portrait; designs on the…

Creator: House of Charles Worth

Date: 1880-1890

Date: 1896

Wanamaker's opens a NY branch of its Philadelphia store at the site that had been A.T. Stewart, then Denning, then Hilton Hughes, at Broadway and 10th

wedding accessories; a) porcelain wedding cake topper; bride and groom wearing crepe paper clothing

b) cream silk bouquet ribbon

Date: c. 1883

Flossing detail

wedding dress C

Creator: Melissa Sweet

Date: 2012

Dress of white silk and silk net; fit and flare silhouette; fitted silk bodice is strapless with a sweetheart neckline, silk net pleating detail, dropped waistline, zipper closure at center back with button detail; bustier lining; flared silk floor…

Date: 1913

Dress of cream silk with net and lace; bodice of cream cotton net with a draped overlay of lace; six small decorative rhinestones down center front of bodice; cream silk satin embellishment at center front above waist with two small rhinestone…

Date: 1907

Dress of cream silk, lace, and chenille; S-curve silhouette; cream silk bodice with cream floral print has pleats extending from shoulder blades at back to waist at front; puff sleeves with draped layers of silk and lace, flounced lace at bottom of…