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Wedding ensemble worn by Lura Burgess Woodside (1887-1982), who married Charles Hadley Watkins (1886-1957) in 1910. Ensemble includes: Ivory colored silk charmeuse wedding dress [.1a] with long sleeves, lace cuffs, beading on bodice, and weighted hem; lace petticoat [.1b] made of silk taffeta; pair of white leather shoes [.2ab]; pair of ivory knit stockings [.3ab]; pair of white leather gloves marked "Germany"[.4ab]; lace handkerchief [.5]; two lengths of knotted silk organza net ribbon [.6ab].
wedding dresses
stockings
shoes (footwear)
gloves
handkerchiefs
silk (fiber)
leather
organza
Dress, Wedding
Dress, Wedding
"From Otto J. Piehler Furrier 12 Bromfield Street Boston, Mass." (Associated box)
1299.182
Unknown
Gift of the Joan Pearson Watkins Trust
2015.62.182.1AB-.6AB
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