Wool wedding dress and jacket worn by Mary T. Hill

Titles: Wool wedding dress and jacket worn by Mary T. Hill (Supplied title)

Description: Two piece wedding dress of blue-grey wool lined with glazed cotton. The dress, probably homemade, consists of a one-piece dress (A) with vertical waist darts, a piped bodice waist seam, coat sleeves with piping and velvet trim, and a six gore skirt with U-shaped, scalloped cutouts trimmed in velvet decorating the hem. The matching, unstructured jacket (B) is machine stitched. The jacket has pagoda sleeves and a flared hem with no closure. The hem edge and sleeve edge are trimmed with velvet ribbon. There is one mended tear at the center back. The set was worn by Mary T. Hill at her wedding to James J. Hill in 1867.

Dates

• Exactly 1867 (Use)

Creation

• owned/used by: Hill, Mary Theresa
• about: Hill, James J. (James Jerome)

Identifiers

• Accession Number: 1998.160.3.A,B

Credit: Minnesota Historical Society Collections

Holding Type: 3D Objects

Quantity: 2 items

Format

• Content Category: artifacts

Measurements

• 53 inches length (1998.160.3.A, dress, center back)
• 22 inches circumference (1998.160.3.A, dress, waist)
• 33 inches length (1998.160.3.B, jacket, center back)
• 17 inches width (1998.160.3.B, jacket, shoulder seams)

Subjects

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