dress, 1-piece
date: label: date made
content: 1891
notes: label: Description
content: Wedding dress, 1-piece; white grosgrain satin lined with brown silk; bodice has high collar with V-opening in front to reveal ruched floral lace gauze trim underneath; center front closure has 19 pairs of alternating hooks and eyes; 3 vertical pleats at each panel of front, tacked down below breast area by feather stitch; 17 pieces of boning, each covered with herringbone-weave satin tape and all seam edges notched and covered with silk piping; long set-in mutton sleeves with ruched gauze and piping around 3" slit openings and edge of wrists; V-seam construction in back ends in ruched gauze-covered tail connected to gathered skirt, which has notched hem exposing underskirt trimmed with lightly pleated cotton gauze double ruffle and crocheted lace; 1 1/8" wide waistband of grosgrain ribbon stamped with trademark of dressmaker; brass hook and eye closure; CB measures (with train): 74" (188 cm); skirt front measures: 43" (109.2 cm).
label: Description
content: Label text: Grimes / 1736 Desales St. / Washington, D.C.
label: Description
content: Worn by donor's mother, Anna Parker Larner, for her wedding on April 8, 1891.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Costume
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Isabella Larner Stott
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1994.0276.001
label: accession number
content: 1994.0276
label: catalog number
content: 1994.0276.001
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Dress, 1-Piece
label: Other Terms
content: Dress, 1-Piece; Entire Body; Main Dress; Female; Wedding