Cream Wedding Gown, Slip, and Veil

Brief Item Record

Title: Cream Wedding Gown, Slip, and Veil

Date: 1930-1939

Description: Cream Crepe-Back Satin Wedding Gown, Slip, and Veil; dress: cream crepe-back satin, cream silk; wedding dress; full length with a train; close fitting bodice, inverted V under bust-line, ruched down CF for bust, pentagon-shaped neckline, separate inch thick halter top straps attached at vertex between bust and back nape of neck, puffy sleeves with close fitting section around wrists and part of forearm with buttons, full length skirt in front (falling flat), train in back

slip: cream silk; full length, inverted V under bust, adjustable spaghetti straps

veil: white nylon netting around circular elastic headband with 8 fake (faded) pink flowers with green leaves around front

Full Item Record

Dublin Core

Identifier

VC2012004

Title

Cream Wedding Gown, Slip, and Veil

Description

Cream Crepe-Back Satin Wedding Gown, Slip, and Veil; dress: cream crepe-back satin, cream silk; wedding dress; full length with a train; close fitting bodice, inverted V under bust-line, ruched down CF for bust, pentagon-shaped neckline, separate inch thick halter top straps attached at vertex between bust and back nape of neck, puffy sleeves with close fitting section around wrists and part of forearm with buttons, full length skirt in front (falling flat), train in back

slip: cream silk; full length, inverted V under bust, adjustable spaghetti straps

veil: white nylon netting around circular elastic headband with 8 fake (faded) pink flowers with green leaves around front

Date

1930-1939

Subject

Clothing and dress

Type

Physical Object

Temporal Coverage

1930s

Rights

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Rights Holder

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Costume Item Type Metadata

Cataloguer with Date

Elizabeth Scopel, 6/19/2012

Color Main

cream

Date Earliest

1930

Date Latest

1939

Gender

womenswear

Classification

costume
clothing

Category

Wedding

Function

wedding clothes

Condition Term

excellent

Condition Description

stains and bluish discoloration on skirt of slip; surface dirt and a few spots on the skirt of the dress

Storage Location

N2

Work Type

dress
slip
veil

Tags

Citation

“Cream Wedding Gown, Slip, and Veil,” Vassar College Costume Collection, accessed May 30, 2023, https://vccc.vassarspaces.net/items/show/2134.