Wedding Dress

From the collections of PVMA • Digital image © Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Assoc. • Image use information

About this item

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.

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Details

Item typeClothing
CreatorUnidentified
Date1830
PlaceMontague, Massachusetts; Sunderland, Massachusetts
TopicFamily, Children, Marriage, Courtship
EraNational Expansion and Reform, 1816–1860
MaterialCloth
Dimension detailsHeight: 54.75 in Width: 43.50 in
Catalog #1938.08
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Unidentified. Wedding Dress. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, American Centuries. https://americancenturies.org/collection/1938-08/. Accessed on December 8, 2024.

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