Wedding dress
Searce and Carman
Category
Costume
Date
1914
Materials
Metal, Net, Silk
Measurements
1170 mm (Length)690 mm (W)880 mm (W)555 mm (Length)
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Killerton, Devon
NT 1365160
Summary
Cream silk wedding dress with silk underdress sewn in. Machine sewn with lots of handfinishing. Applied plaited braid decoration on bodice and skirt, pintucks at shoulders. Fastens with hooks and eyes at front left shoulder. Net undersleeves. Label on waistband reads 'Searce and Carman' Coliton, Devon. 1914 (circa)
Provenance
Worn by husbands grandmother at her wedding in 1914.
Marks and inscriptions
Searce and Carman (label on waistband)
Makers and roles
Searce and Carman, maker Searce and Carman, maker