This is a place for any extant garments in private collections from about 1941 back. There is no beginning date. The only rule is that it can't be currently in a museum and must be before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. I mostly post items I've seen on ebay, etsy, or other auction sites so we will continue to have a record of them for research purposes. If you have antique clothing in your collection, please, email me pictures of them and I will gladly add them to this site.
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Apple Green Dress from 1870
From the seller:
Antique Wedding Dress "Green Apple". 1870. London. Wedding dress made of taffeta. Prior to 1990, exhibited at London muzee.Est documents. It is known that Hariet Hamelton crowned in Manchester in 1870. I wonder that at this time in wedding dresses were fashionable all shades of green. It was believed that the green-grape, apple is abundance. Silk fringe skirts tunic and passes on the bodice, forming straps. The bodice vyvyazannye manually button. Buttons are very beautiful preserved in very good condition and all. Belt decoration is sophisticated style. Tacked bows with long ends. Very full skirt worn with a crinoline. Costume needs serious restoration or good for learning about the dress with a long history. There are all kind of pedigree Hariet Hamelton.
From Me:
All I'm going to say is this - if this is the wedding dress, than this lady was extremely fashion forward as the style of the dress was popular a year or two later. You can see what I mean here.
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