Wedding Dress of Beulah May Christ Hummel
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Identifier
HH2013001
Title
Wedding Dress of Beulah May Christ Hummel
Description
Dress of cream silk with net and lace; bodice of cream cotton net with a draped overlay of lace; six small decorative rhinestones down center front of bodice; cream silk satin embellishment at center front above waist with two small rhinestone buckles; short sleeves with two tiers of lace; high, round neckline with thin silk satin piping; metal snaps at center back of bodice; silk satin sash around natural waist with one end hanging straight to about thigh length at center back; ankle length silk satin skirt with seamed silk satin wrap-style tunic overskirt; the tunic overskirt is hemmed with bugle beads, bugle beads also present on the tunic overskirt going from the waist to the hem following the edge of the wrapped material.
Date
1913
Subject
Clothing and dress
Extent
30 inches (chest), 28 inches (waist), 41 inches (hips), 49 inches (center front length), 50.75 inches (center back length),
Medium
beads
net
rhinestones
silk
metal
Type
Physical Object
Spatial Coverage
Ravine
Pennsylvania
United States
Temporal Coverage
1910s
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Is Referenced By
For Better and For Worse
Rights Holder
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Costume Item Type Metadata
Source Identifier
HH2013001
Color Main
cream
Closure Type
buckle
buttons
snaps
Closure Placement
center back closure
Sleeve Length
short sleeve
Structure Waist
natural waistline
Structure Skirt
overskirt
Structure Hem
ankle length
Dimensions Chest
30
Dimensions Waist
28
Dimensions Hips
41
Dimensions CF Length
49
Dimensions CB Length
50.75
Dimensions All
30 inches (chest), 28 inches (waist), 41 inches (hips), 49 inches (center front length), 50.75 inches (center back length),
Wearer
Beulah May Christ Hummel
Date Earliest
1913
Date Latest
1913
Culture
American
Gender
womenswear
Classification
costume
clothing
Category
Wedding
Function
wedding clothes
Exhibitions
For Better and For Worse, Spring 2013
Public Information
The dress was ordered from a catalogue. Miss Christ had little access to "fine shops" as she lived in a "Pennsylvania-Dutch" farming and coal-mining region.
On November 23, 1913, Beulah May Christ married Lyman Hummel in Ravine, Pennsylvania. Miss Christ was the grandmother of Holly Hummel, Vassar College Drama Department costume designer and faculty member emerita, and founder of the Vassar College Costume Collection.
On November 23, 1913, Beulah May Christ married Lyman Hummel in Ravine, Pennsylvania. Miss Christ was the grandmother of Holly Hummel, Vassar College Drama Department costume designer and faculty member emerita, and founder of the Vassar College Costume Collection.
Condition Term
very good
Condition
Pale stain on the lower right of tunic back, three small rust stains on upper right back. Wearing on lower left back, stains on bottom of left sleeve. Underarm stains, as well as on the bottom center front hem. One bugle bead missing from the upper skirt tunic area. Tuck on the right tunic panel, on the bottom.
Treatment
Mannequin was padded slightly in the bust. Dress was steamed, silk fabric of skirt stiffened slightly after steaming.
Mannequin
Esther
Repository
Collection of Holly Hummel
Work Type
dress
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