Ivory Wedding Dress of Marion Heagen Sauter
Dublin Core
Identifier
VC2005014
Title
Ivory Wedding Dress of Marion Heagen Sauter
Description
Synthetic ivory material wedding dress, with fitted cummerbund waist and skirt with a train.; Ivory synthetic floor-length wedding dress. A fitted bodice and modified sweetheart neckline with eyelet cutwork, decorated by cotton braid. Cummerbund style waistband. Gathers along the bust line. Gathered skirt with a train. Long sleeves gather into arms eye, with eyelet cutwork at the sleeve hem.
Creator
Macy's
Date
1940
Subject
Clothing and dress
Extent
35 inches (chest), 26 inches (waist), 48.5 inches (center front length), 96.5 inches (center back length),
Medium
cotton
metal
rayon
Type
Physical Object
Spatial Coverage
New York
United States
Temporal Coverage
1940s
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Provenance
Marion Heagen Sauter, Anne Constantonope, Diane Sauter
Rights Holder
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Costume Item Type Metadata
Source Identifier
vc2005014
Color Main
cream
Dimensions Chest
35
Dimensions Waist
26
Dimensions CF Length
48.5
Dimensions CB Length
96.5
Dimensions All
35 inches (chest), 26 inches (waist), 48.5 inches (center front length), 96.5 inches (center back length),
Wearer
Marion Heagen Sauter
Donor
Anne Constantinope, Diane Sauter
Date Earliest
1940
Date Latest
1940
Culture
American
Gender
womenswear
Classification
costume
clothing
Category
Wedding
Function
wedding clothes
Condition Term
good
Condition
Small stains on train and under the arms. Wrinkles, caused by storage. Slight fraying within cutwork. Some gray stains on the upper side of the train. A smudge on the bodice. Loose threads on the side seam, and a small tear on the bottom of the waistband.
Storage Location
D11
Repository
Vassar College, Archives and Special Collections
Work Type
dress
headpiece
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