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Wedding dress
Maroon silk wedding dress (bodice and skirt) worn by Miss Mary Elizabeth Jones, aged 21, for her wedding in 1882 to Mr Benjamin in Borth. Bodice tight fitting, boned, with seventeen covered buttons. Long tails at back weighted. Eight vertical pleats on either side of front. Skirt of same material. Band of bead embroidery defines edges of side bustles front and back. The skirt falls to the hem in a series of pleated frills alternating with a row of scallops. The skirt has a boned and horizontally tied bustle built in at the rear.
Collection Area
Social & Cultural History
Item Number
F72.334.1-2
Acquisition
Donation, 1972
Measurements
Height
(mm): 790
Height
(mm): 1000
Techniques
beadwork
embroidery
weaving
sewing
Material
satin (silk)
glass
metal
lead
glazed linen (fabric)
tabby weave (cellulosic)
tabby weave (silk)
tabby weave (synthetic)
twill weave (cellulosic)
twill weave (wool)
twill weave (silk)
Location
In store
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