E.1979.18_01
Type
dress; wedding dress
Maker of the object
Fraser Sons & Co
Date
1883; 15 March 1883 (date of use)
Materials
silk, cotton
Place
Scotland, Glasgow, 12 Buchanan Street (place of manufacture); Renfrewshire, Renfrew, Castlehill House (place of use)
Description
Woman’s dress or wedding dress in light cream silk satin and woven patterned silk. Standing dagged collar, fitted bodice fastening centre front with twenty-one buttons (missing), full-length sleeves. Skirt, full-length, short, puffed over-skirt pleated into waistband, underskirt in woven pattened silk. Back cut in Princessline with bodice, pleats centre back to go over bustle extending into train with diagonally folded corner. Lined in white cotton. Labelled ‘Fraser Sons & Co. 12 Buchanan, St Glasgow’. Worn Jessie Doig Brown at her wedding to William Wood.
Category
DRESS
Measurements
bust: 810 mm; footprint: 600 mm x 1300 mm; waist: 560 mm