Object: Wedding dress
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Title / object name  Wedding dress
Maker  Date  
Unknown  1894  
Materials  silk, cotton, glass, brass
Dimensions
Waist circumference  560 mm
Classification  dresses
Registration Number  PC002548
Credit Line
Gift of Miss C Rothwell, 1982

This blue silk wedding dress was worn for a wedding in Wales in 1894. It has leg-of-mutton sleeves, which were very fashionable at the time and reached their largest in the mid 1890s. These enormous puffs had to be balanced by a wide skirt and tight waist, as seen in this dress.

Brilliant bride
The brilliance of the blue comes from aniline dyes, which were synthetic dyes developed in 1856. The blue was probably quite daring for the bride, as white was firmly established as the favoured colour for wedding dresses by the end of the 19th century.

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