Wedding Dress of off-white taffeta with lace bodice with wide, scalloped neckline and short sleeves overlaying a strapless bodice
- Title
- Wedding Dress of off-white taffeta with lace bodice with wide, scalloped neckline and short sleeves overlaying a strapless bodice
- LC Subject
- ceremonial costume
- Donor
- Smith, Rebecca
- Description
- Wedding Dress of off-white taffeta with lace bodice with wide, scalloped neckline and short sleeves overlaying a strapless bodice; A-line skirt is full-length with train; several petticoats of tulle attached; stacked button and loop closures at center-back. Donor's mother worked at OSU Music Department. Wedding dress was worn by the donor's mother to wed in 1959 in New York. The donor's mother graduated from Cornell University with a degree in Home Economics. Donor included a framed photograph of her mother wearing the dress, several laminated newspaper articles of the wedding, a complete wedding invitation, and the wedding certificate.
- Provenance
- Wedding dress was worn by the donor's mother to wed in 1959 in New York.
- Motif
- Stylized floral lace
- Work Type
- wedding dresses
- Location
- United States
- Date
- 1933/1965
- Identifier
- 2019.011.006
- Rights
- In Copyright
- License
- Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Material
- Taffeta Lace Tulle
- Technique
- Stacked buttons Fitted bodice Train
- Set
- Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection
- Primary Set
- Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection
- Institution
- Oregon State University
