Wedding Dress Ensemble

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Wedding Dress Ensemble

1910

Gift of the Joan Pearson Watkins Trust

Wedding ensemble worn by Lura Burgess Woodside (1887-1982), who married Charles Hadley Watkins (1886-1957) in 1910. Ensemble includes: Ivory colored silk charmeuse wedding dress [.1a] with long sleeves, lace cuffs, beading on bodice, and weighted hem; lace petticoat [.1b] made of silk taffeta; pair of white leather shoes [.2ab]; pair of ivory knit stockings [.3ab]; pair of white leather gloves marked "Germany"[.4ab]; lace handkerchief [.5]; two lengths of knotted silk organza net ribbon [.6ab].

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