Cream Wedding Gown, Slip, and Veil

VC2012004

Cream Wedding Gown, Slip, and Veil

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

1930-1939

Clothing and dress

crepe

satin

metal

net

nylon

silk

Physical Object

1930s

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VC2012004abc

Elizabeth Scopel, 6/19/2012

cream

1930

1939

womenswear

costume

clothing

Wedding

wedding clothes

excellent

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

N2

Vassar College Costume Collection, Drama Department, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY 12604

dress

slip

veil