1983.15.4a-b

Wedding Dress, 1905

White cotton, white cotton lace

Scale: 1 box = 1"

The entire dress is unlined and sewn with French seams. Each tuck is made of ½" of fabric, and

all are spaced ½" apart, pointing towards the center back. The back waist is pleated as marked,

then covered on the inside with a self-fabric ½" wide belt from X to Y, where there is a 9" tail.

The yoke is constructed of white cotton with lace insertion (bands of lace marked L); the marked

seam represents where the cotton and insertion flounce begins. The flounce, ending in three

strips of insertion lace sewn together, is sewn into the yoke-to-body seam. The right side of the

back of the yoke has hooks where marked, matching thread eyes on the other side. The collar,

made of three rows of lace, has diagonal wire stays on either side of the center front, but only on

the left side of the back. The sleeves are similarly constructed of cotton with lace insertion, with

½" downward-pointing tucks on the upper arm. The top of the sleeve is gathered to 6" between

the marks and set into the bodice.

The top half of the skirt is sewn separately from the bottom. The top is tucked vertically around

the waist, with a single large pleat at the center back, and has two rows of chevroned lace

insertion at the bottom; the lower part is also regularly tucked to the mark, and has two straight

rows of lace insertion around the bottom. The opening (to mark) has a ¾" wide placket around it,

and fastens with hooks and eyes as marked.