Lily Cathcart wedding dress

06 Aug 2024

Worn by Lily on her wedding day on September 10, 1910, the beautiful dress was filled with weights, designed to give it a fashionable “scroop” or rustling noise, but also making it fragile and requiring delicate handling by the city’s textile experts over the past five-and-a-half decades. Remarkably, it still even has several tiny pieces of confetti from the wedding day embedded in its delicate embroidery. A classic example of the elegant style of the time, the dress is made of cream silk satin with a silk chiffon pleated overlay. Its high stand collar is trimmed with lace, extremely fashionable for the period, and the front of the dress is heavily decorated with silver beads.

Lily Cathcart wedding dress: Worn by Lily on her wedding day on September 10, 1910, the beautiful dress was filled with weights, designed to give it a fashionable “scroop” or rustling noise, but also making it fragile and requiring delicate handling by the city’s textile experts over the past five-and-a-half decades.
Remarkably, it still even has several tiny pieces of confetti from the wedding day embedded in its delicate embroidery.
A classic example of the elegant style of the time, the dress is made of cream silk satin with a silk chiffon pleated overlay. Its high stand collar is trimmed with lace, extremely fashionable for the period, and the front of the dress is heavily decorated with silver beads.

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