Wedding dress
Category
Costume
Date
1909
Materials
Silk, silk/wool blend, cotton lace, cotton, buttons, hooks, tassels, boning, wool braid.
Measurements
1280 x 420 mm
Collection
Springhill, County Londonderry
NT 604370
Summary
A woman's wedding dress made from cream silk. The dress has half-length sleeves, pleated horizontally from shoulder to cuff, with the cuff trimmed with cream cotton lace. The V-shaped neckline has an insertion of cream silk, pintucked and with an edging of matching cotton lace. There are two separate panels of a cream silk/wool blend from shoulder to hem both front and back, piped with cream silk. The panels are trimmed with ten self-covered large buttons front and back on the bodice and the skirt trimmed with sixteen matching buttons on the lower front and hem. The dress has a cream silk pleated waistband with an additional matching covered button and a double sash hanging from the left hand side, both sashes ending with a cream silk tassel. The bodice is fully lined in white cotton with four boning strips, the skirt is unlined with a cream wool braid edge and the dress fastens with seventeen hooks centre back, intact. Worn by Martha Hogg of Cookstown, who took it to Ohio, USA to be married in in 1909.
Provenance
Gift of Mrs Doreen Brown, (grand-daughter). Worn by Martha Hogg of Cookstown, who took it to Ohio, USA to be married in.