This gown was worn by Mary Graves Montague of Williamsburg, Massachusetts, when she married John Montague, from Sunderland, on October 7, 1830.  It  is  typical of those worn in the late 1830s. A wedding gown in this period was usually a woman’s best gown, of any color, and expected to be worn for other formal occasions. The large gigot sleeves, pleated into a dropped armhole, have been banded at the top, visually “shrinking” the sleeves that reached their largest size in 1836. The gown is made of a pea-green silk taffeta, and lined with a cloth that resembles “pina cloth”, or pineapple fiber.