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@wornonthisday
, you’ll love “Worn on This Day: The Clothes That Made History” and its sort-of sequel, “The Way We Wed: A Global History of Wedding Fashion,” by
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Worn
#onthisday
in 1933 by Margaret Whigham, a Scottish millionaire's daughter, when she wed American golfer Charles Sweeny at the Brompton Oratory in London. The Norman Hartnell gown took a team of 30 seamstresses 6 weeks to make, at the then-shocking cost of £52.
#OTD
@V_and_A
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Worn
#onthisday
in 1902 by Oxford student Raj Rajendra Narayan, 20, the future Maharaja of Cooch-Behar, posing for Lafayette in London. He wears a silk angarkha (robe with circular opening), diamond sarpech (turban ornament) with egret feather, and diamond necklace.
#OTD
@V_and_A
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98
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Worn
#onthisday
in 1807 by Mary Norcliffe, 17, at her
#wedding
to Dr. Charles Best at the church of St. Michael-Le-Belfry in York, UK. The asymmetrical embroidery recalls the drapery of a toga and, along with the high waist, reflects the vogue for neoclassicism.
#OTD
@V_and_A
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66
622
Worn
#onthisday
in 1955 by Rosa Parks when she was arrested arrested for sitting in the front of a segregated bus on her way home from work as a department store tailor in Montgomery, AL. In her bag, Parks carried a yellow floral dress she was making for her mother.
#OTD
@NMAAHC
1
206
582
Worn
#onthisday
in 1945 by women buying surplus silk escape maps in London. They were issued to
@RoyalAirForce
pilots in case they became trapped behind enemy lines; silk was quiet, waterproof, and easy to conceal. Many were turned into scarves, dresses, and lingerie.
#OTD
@I_W_M
13
122
576
Worn
#onthisday
in 1944, when Paris was liberated from the occupying Germans. Mme. Legris, a member of the French Resistance, had embroidered this crepe blouse with patriotic slogans and symbols, adding to it during the war, including the date of liberation.
#OTD
@PalaisGalliera
5
199
532
Worn
#onthisday
in 1946 by Lili Lax when she wed Ludwig Frydman, a fellow Jewish inmate of the displaced persons camp in Celle, Germany. He traded coffee and cigarettes for a rayon parachute so she could have a white gown, later worn by 17+ brides.
@ushmm
#HolocaustRemembranceDay
9
163
532
Worn
#onthisday
in 1927 by Mary Louise Wright when she married Charles DeWitt O'Kieffe, Jr., in a civil ceremony in Indianapolis, IN. The heavy beading kept the light silk crepe from blowing in the wind, but such ornamentation has damaged many flapper dresses.
#OTD
@ChicagoMuseum
5
85
479
Custom Giorgio
@Armani
gown worn
#onthisday
in 2013 by Tina Turner for her
#wedding
to Erwin Bach at their home on Lake Zurich in Switzerland. Green symbolizes balance and harmony in Buddhism, Turner's faith since the 1970s. Female guests were asked to wear white.
#OTD
6
55
473
Charles James gown worn
#onthisday
in 1939 by Anne, Countess of Rosse, to Sarah Spencer-Churchill’s coming-out ball at
@BlenheimPalace
. It was not only the social event of the season, but would be the last grand English country house party before World War II.
#OTD
@BirrCastle
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40
459
Worn
#onthisday
in 1905 by Anna Pavlovna in the premiere of "The Dying Swan" in St. Petersburg. At least 3 of her swan costumes survive; her costumer, Mme. Manya, said “she never wore her Swan costume more than twice without the skirts of the tutu being renewed.”
#OTD
@GallicaBnF
8
108
448
Worn
#onthisday
in 1934 by Elizabeth Wells at her
#wedding
to Heywood Fox in Southbridge, MA. The Hattie Carnegie gown is made of bias-cut silk. The tulle sleeves and neckline are banded in silk for a striped effect; a tulle cape falls from the shoulders.
#OTD
#NewCanaanMuseum
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63
450
Worn
#onthisday
in 1949 by Angela Lansbury at her
#wedding
to her second husband, actor-producer Peter Shaw, in London. Gossip columnist Harrison Carroll reported that her gown was "street length, of white chantilly lace over old rose taffeta," befitting a divorcee.
#OTD
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31
425
Worn
#onthisday
in 1911 by Queen Mary at her coronation. London's Princess Louise Needlework School embroidered English roses, Scottish thistles, Irish shamrocks, the star and lotus of India, and English oak leaves and acorns on the Reville and Rossiter gown.
#OTD
@wabbey
@RCT
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80
410
Worn
#onthisday
in 1953 by Jane McNeill when she wed the Earl of Dalkeith at St. Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh. The bride was a former model for Norman Hartnell, but his rival Hardy Amies made her lace gown, woven with silver thread to echo the mayflower pattern of her tiara.
#OTD
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57
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Worn
#onthisday
in 1957 by Ilse Frank to dinner at the Hotel de Paris in Monte Carlo, Monaco. The French-made dress of emerald green silk satin is hand embroidered with silver thread and sequins.
#OTD
@KSUMuseum
6
55
399
Worn
#onthisday
in 1918 by Muriel Stella Williams when her father took her to a Birmingham pub to celebrate the end of World War I. Customers filled her skirt (decorated with portraits of King George V and General Douglas Haig) with coins.
@BM_AG
#OTD
#ArmisticeDay
#VeteransDay
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160
396
Worn
#onthisday
in 1812 by Margaretha Weddik Wendel at her
#wedding
to Baron Hieronymus Nicolaas van Slingelandt. The hem is decorated with a satin border, pleated ribbon, roses, and loose petals.
#OTD
@rijksmuseum
1
53
395
Worn
#onthisday
in 1822 by Mary MacDougall when she was presented to King George IV at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh on his historic visit to Scotland. The highly romanticized dress code suggested that ladies wear tartan only as an embellishment.
#OTD
@DunollieOban
@NtlMuseumsScot
0
34
374
Worn
#onthisday
in 1821 at the coronation of George IV in
@wabbey
by Sarah Ann Walker, 17, one of six attendants to the King's herbwoman; they scattered flowers along the procession route. The silk gauze gown trimmed with fabric flowers once had a lace ruff.
#OTD
@BrightonMuseums
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70
370
Worn
#onthisday
in 1936 by Aspasia Makarona to marry Antonios Koressis at the Amalieion Orphanage church in Athens, Greece. It was made by Mady Donnet & Co. of Athens. Wedding fashions of the 1930s were strongly influenced by Hollywood films.
#OTD
#PeloponnesianFolkloreFoundation
3
51
368
Worn
#onthisday
in 1947 by Olivia de Havilland when she won her first Oscar for "To Each His Own": a hand-painted tulle gown pioneering Black designer Anne Lowe created for Sonia Gowns, who received credit for the design "because my name was not acceptable," Lowe said later.
#OTD
4
64
361
Worn
#onthisday
in 1966 by Penelope Tree, 16, at Truman Capote's Black and White Ball at the Plaza Hotel in New York, NY. The daring
@xoBetseyJohnson
dress from Paraphernalia caught the attention of fellow guest Richard Avedon, launching Tree's modeling career.
#OTD
@metmuseum
0
53
356
Worn
#onthisday
in 1933 by Fort Worth socialite Electra Waggoner when she married Arthur Bowman in Garden City, NY. Edward Steichen photographed her in her Hattie Carnegie
#wedding
gown and veil of tulle and heirloom lace for Vogue. Her bridesmaids wore white and chartreuse.
#OTD
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43
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Hat worn
#onthisday
in 1938 by Constance Babington Smith at the Royal Aeronautical Society Garden Party at the Great West Aerodrome in Hammondsworth, UK. As a photographic interpreter in the Allied Photographic Intelligence Unit, she helped defeat Germany's V-1 flying bombs.
#OTD
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77
341
Worn
#onthisday
in 1983 by Nan Kempner to the Yves Saint Laurent retrospective opening at the
@metmuseum
in New York, the museum's first show of a living designer's work. Her
@YSL
Fall/Winter 1983 faille de chine coat and velvet gown are now part of the museum's collection.
#OTD
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39
339
Worn
#onthisday
in 1834 by Ann Turner when she married merchant Edward Haslingden in Sydney, Australia. They had met on the ship from England two years earlier; Ann, then 16, was suspected of suffering from tuberculosis, but she lived to be 103 had 9 children.
#OTD
@maasmuseum
2
56
331
Court dress worn
#onthisday
in 1874 by Tsesarevna Maria Feodorovna at the
#wedding
of Grand Duchess Maria to Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, at the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia. Artist Nicholas Chevalier recorded the event for Queen Victoria, who could not attend.
#OTD
@RCT
0
40
331
Worn
#onthisday
in 1976 by Jan Stokes for her
#wedding
in Glen Osmond, Australia. Stokes made the dress in three months using a crochet pattern from a 1973 issue of the Australian Women’s Weekly, at a cost of around $30.
#OTD
@maasmuseum
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37
329
Worn
#onthisday
in 1962 by Mary Alice, Mary Louise, Mary Anne, and Mary Catherine Fultz from Milton, NC, when they met President John F. Kennedy at the
@WhiteHouse
. They were the first recorded set of identical Black quadruplets and became national celebrities.
#OTD
@JFKLibrary
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45
296
Worn
#onthisday
in 1956 by Grace Kelly for her civil wedding to Prince Rainier of Monaco. The suit of pink silk overlaid with beige lace, its floral pattern outlined with dusty pink silk floss, was designed by Helen Rose, who had costumed Kelly for four MGM films.
#OTD
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66
300
Dior dress and headscarf trimmed in 200 silk organza daisies worn
#onthisday
in 1967 by actress Susan Hampshire at her
#wedding
to French director Pierre Granier-Deferre at the Kensington Register Office in London. He bought her a
@Dior
dress in lieu of an engagement ring.
#OTD
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29
288
Worn
#onthisday
in 1953 by Elizabeth Parke Firestone, wife of tire magnate Harvey S. Firestone, Jr., to President Eisenhower's inaugural ball. The embroidered satin gown was from the Christian
@Dior
Fall/Winter 1952 collection.
#OTD
@thehenryford
4
34
284
"Starry Night" costume worn
#onthisday
in 1926 by Marjorie Merriweather Post at the Everglades Ball in Palm Beach, FL. The sheer black silk crepe is embellished with silver and blue sequin stars and rhinestones.
#OTD
@HillwoodMuseum
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82
273
Worn
#onthisday
in 1970 by Elizabeth Taylor to present the Oscar for Best Picture at
@TheAcademy
Awards in Los Angeles, CA. Edith Head designed the ruffled violet chiffon gown to match Taylor's eyes and showcase her recent weight loss (and new
@Cartier
diamond necklace).
#OTD
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29
276
Worn
#onthisday
in 1834 by Mary-Anne-Grace Quin at her
#wedding
to Herbert Mayo at St. Mary's Church in Stoke Newington, London. White muslin gowns were fashionable in the early 1800s; this embroidered example has a matching shoulder cape.
#OTD
@V_and_A
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45
271
Worn
#onthisday
in 1898 by Baroness Christine von Linden when she was presented at Buckingham Palace: a white satin gown overlaid with chiffon, with lace insertions and chiffon frills, and train of white duchesse satin trimmed with chiffon and lilies of the valley.
#OTD
@V_and_A
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27
265
Worn
#onthisday
in by 1897 Kate Brice to the Bradley-Martin masquerade ball at the Waldorf Hotel in New York. Paris couturier Jean-Philippe Worth made the Velasquez-inspired “Infanta” costume in 24 hours after receiving a rush order via translatantic cable.
#OTD
@MuseumofCityNY
2
51
261
White satin gown worn
#onthisday
in 1900 by Louise du Pont, with her bridesmaids at her church
#wedding
to Francis B. Crowninshield in Pennsbury Township, DE. Due to the heat, the reception was held on the lawn at
@WinterthurMuse
, then the du Pont family home.
#OTD
@hagleymuseum
0
34
250
Beaded, pleated dress worn
#onthisday
in 1923 by Myrtle Anderson Harris, for her wedding.
#OTD
@GoldsteinMuseum
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28
250
Worn
#onthisday
in 1951 by Elisavet Papastratou at her
#wedding
to Achilleas Kominos at St. Nicolas Orthodox Church in Paris, France. The Jean Dessès ensemble has a light blue satin jacket with a train and a skirt of light blue tulle.
#OTD
@peloponnesian1
@Europeanaeu
1
22
251
Worn
#onthisday
in 1884 by milliner Emily Gale at her
#wedding
to Walter Vicary at the Mint Wesleyan Chapel in Exeter, UK. The velvet-trimmed 2-piece silk day dress by Green & Sons has a fashionable apron front.
#OTD
@RAMMuseum
2
35
251
Worn
#onthisday
in 1850 by Princess Lovisa of the Netherlands to Crown Prince Karl of Sweden at the Storkyrkan in Stockholm. In 1859, she became Queen of Sweden and Norway.
#OTD
@Hallwylska
6
66
245
Worn
#onthisday
in 1918 by Lylian Shapiro at her
#wedding
to Louis Zalk in Duluth, MN. Helen of Minneapolis--a specialty shop in Dayton's department store--made the silk panné velvet dress, worn with an amber bead belt and silver cloth slippers.
#OTD
📷 Goldstein Museum of Design
3
38
250
Worn
#onthisday
in 1933 by Eleanor Post Close, daughter of Marjorie Merriweather Post, for her 2nd marriage, to Etienne Marie Robert Gautier in Paris. The gray bias-cut satin and crêpe chiffon gown was by Callot Soeurs, a French couture house founded in 1895.
#OTD
@HillwoodMuseum
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28
247
Worn
#onthisday
in 1841 by Sarah Maria Wright for her wedding to Daniel Neal, a rural laborer, in Lincolnshire. It is a rare example of working class dress. While the cut is fashionable, the printed cotton fabric was cheaper than silk and more practical than white.
#OTD
@V_and_A
10
76
242
Worn
#onthisday
in 1871 by Princess Louise, Queen Victoria's 6th child, at her wedding to the Marquess of Lorne at Windsor Castle. She wore a white silk gown with Honiton lace flounces and veil. Her
@GarrardLondon
jewels included a sapphire pendant the groom gave her.
#OTD
@RCT
1
38
236
Worn
#onthisday
in 1863 by Frances, Lady Hutt, to the royal wedding of the Prince of Wales and Princess Alexandra of Denmark in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
#OTD
@fashionatbowes
@RCT
5
34
236
Worn
#onthisday
in 1953 by fashion designer Anne Fogarty to a dinner and fashion show at the
@philamuseum
, which now owns it. The gold lace gown of her own design, hourglass shaped with no superfluous trim, exemplified the "paper doll silhouette" for which she was known.
#OTD
2
18
236
Worn
#onthisday
in 1841 by Sarah Maria Wright for her wedding to Daniel Neal at St. Nicholas' Church in Skirbeck, Lincolnshire. The dress has fashionable full sleeves but the block-printed cotton was cheaper than silk and more apropriate for a rural laborer's wife.
#OTD
@V_and_A
6
49
232
Worn
#onthisday
in 1874 by Ella Merriweather when she married C. W. Post at her home in Pawnee, IL. The two-piece gray silk taffeta ensemble originally had a high, closed neckline, but was later altered (probably by the original owner) to lower the neckline.
#OTD
@HillwoodMuseum
5
53
230
Worn
#onthisday
in 1946 by Nedenia Hutton (aka Dina Merrill) at her
#wedding
to Stanley M. Rumbough, Jr., in Roslyn, NY: a
@saks
gown embroidered with seed pearls and, on the bow knot, the bride's and groom's initials. She carried a jeweled
@Cartier
purse.
#OTD
@HillwoodMuseum
5
22
231
Worn
#onthisday
in 1876 by schoolteacher Anna Jane Hanson, 25, with a sheer white neckerchief at her
#wedding
to William Secoy in Illinois. The ensemble is made of challis, a lightweight blend of silk and wool.
#OTD
#GoldsteinMuseumofDesign
4
36
231
Worn
#onthisday
in 1938 by Betty Wray at her
#wedding
in London. She made the gown from artificial silk; her cousin Dorothy, who worked for couturier Norman Hartnell, added beading to the collar and cuffs. Four brides borrowed it for their own wartime weddings.
#OTD
@MuseumLondon
4
21
232
Worn
#onthisday
in 1939 by Vivien Leigh on the first day of principal photography for "Gone With the Wind." Ultimately, the scene would be shot 5 times, by 2 directors. In the final cut, Leigh wore a white dress, as this one was too revealing for an unchaperoned 16-year-old.
#OTD
3
52
231
Worn
#onthisday
in 1759 by Helena Slicher for her wedding to Aelbrecht, Baron van Slingelandt.
@rijksmuseum
11
67
231
Worn
#onthisday
in 1920 by Mrs. Elwes to a masquerade at the Government House in Madras, India. The Madras Times praised her jewel-studded Countess of Pembroke costume as "thoroughly in keeping with the queenly grace and perfect taste of its pretty wearer."
#OTD
@JBCollection_uk
0
50
229
Worn
#onthisday
in 1912 by Laura Mabel Francatelli--secretary to Lady Duff Gordon, better known as the fashion designer Lucile--when she escaped the sinking RMS Titanic in the early morning hours. The life preserver is autographed by her fellow survivors from Lifeboat No. 1.
#OTD
3
55
227
Worn
#onthisday
in 1927 by Nedenia Hutton, 3, as flower girl in the wedding of her half-sister Adelaide Close, which the Pittsburgh Daily Post called “the most brilliant wedding of the New York society season.” The organza dress was trimmed with rabbit fur.
#OTD
@HillwoodMuseum
2
26
229
Worn
#onthisday
in 1897 at the Devonshire House Ball held in honor of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. The 700 guests were instructed to come in historical dress from before 1815. The Duchess of Portland wore a Duchess of Savoia costume by Charles Frederick Worth.
#OTD
@V_and_A
4
72
225
Worn
#onthisday
in 1903 by Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna, Tsar Nicholas II's sister, to a ball at the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg. The guests wore bejeweled 17th-century-style Russian costumes artist Sergey Solomko designed, with advice from historians.
#OTD
@hermitage_eng
2
21
227
Worn
#onthisday
in 1905 by Marjorie Merriweather Post, 18, to wed Edward Bennett Close in New York, NY. The silk organza and lace gown by Hitchins & Barlow is decorated with three-dimensional wired lilies and a large, flat rhinestone bow on the left bodice.
#OTD
@HillwoodMuseum
3
39
220
Worn
#onthisday
in 1893 by Princess Marie of Edinburgh when she wed Prince Ferdinand of Romania. “I had a dislike of lace veils, so in spite of all the old family lace I wore tulle, kept in place by a diamond tiara" and "a small wreath of orange blossoms,” she recalled.
#OTD
@RCT
3
32
220
Worn
#onthisday
in 1963 by Susan Peterson at the Fleur de Lis Ball in St. Louis, MO. Ann Lowe designed the ivory taffeta ballgown with rosettes and leaves, sold by Saks Fifth Avenue.
#OTD
📷 Missouri HIstorical Society
3
32
221
Worn
#onthisday
in 1957 by Queen Elizabeth II to a state dinner at the
@Elysee
Palace in Paris. Norman Hartnell diplomatically embroidered the gown, dubbed “The Flowers of the Fields of France,” with Gallic emblems: daisies, poppies, fleurs-de-lis, & wheat sheaves.
#OTD
@V_and_A
3
57
217
Worn
#onthisday
in 1815 by Napoleon, on the eve of the battle of Waterloo. Although likely made in France, the red felt cloak lined with flowered gold silk brocade is based on a North African burnous. It was seized from the Emperor's baggage train following his defeat.
#OTD
@RCT
7
94
217
Worn
#onthisday
in 1970 by
@BarbraStreisand
to the
@AmDiabetesAssn
Benefit Gala at the Plaza Hotel in New York, NY. It was one of several gowns with matching hats Arnold Scaasi made out of saris for her July 1969 residency at the Las Vegas International Hotel.
#OTD
@mfaboston
3
20
217
Worn
#onthisday
in 1958 by Queen Elizabeth II at Amsterdam's Royal Palace. The Illustrated London News described the "brilliant" Norman Hartnell gown as “sky-blue and primrose-yellow” with "embroidery of ruched lace, re-embroidered with aquamarines and pale topazes.”
#OTD
@RCT
9
20
215
Worn
#onthisday
in 1892 by Lulu Osterman at her
#wedding
to Walter Goodall at her family home in Indianapolis, IN. Per The Indianapolis Journal, the bride wore "heavy corded silk, trimmed with point lace and a pearl girdle" and "the groom's gift of diamonds."
#OTD
@NewfieldsToday
1
20
213
Worn
#onthisday
in 1954 by Grace Kelly to the premiere of her film "The Last Time I Saw Paris." The gown was designed by her date, Oleg Cassini, to whom she was briefly engaged in 1954. Cassini claimed to be the one behind her famous style: "I created the Grace Kelly Look."
#OTD
4
23
217
Worn
#onthisday
in 1957 by Queen Elizabeth II to a state banquet at
@RideauHall
in Ottawa, official residence of the Governor General of Canada. The Norman Hartnell gown mingled green velvet Canadian maple leaves & white roses, the emblem of the House of York.
#OTD
@CanMusHistory
5
40
210
Worn
#onthisday
in 1746 at the Battle of Culloden near Inverness, Scotland. The defeat of the Jacobite forces by the English redcoats marked the end of the Highland way of life—and dress. Tartan garments like kilts and this coat would be banned until 1782.
#OTD
@NtlMuseumsScot
3
65
208
Worn
#onthisday
in 1968 by Queen Elizabeth II, posing for her 43rd birthday photo by Cecil Beaton in the White Drawing Room at Buckingham Palace. She accessorized the Hardy Amies gown, made for her State Visit to Germany in 1965, with the Grand Duchess Vladimir Tiara.
#OTD
@RCT
1
33
209
Worn
#onthisday
in 1854--her 35th birthday--by Svea Beata Myhrman at her
#wedding
to Gustaf Myhrman in Stockholm, Sweden. The gown is made of tarlatan, a sheer cotton textile that is stiffened to give it more shape than gauzy muslins.
#OTD
@nordiskamuseet
7
18
206
Worn
#onthisday
in 1841 by Quakers Rebecca Thompson and Isaac Paschall Morris at their
#wedding
in Philadelphia, PA. Wealthy Quakers typically wore plain but high-quality dress; Isaac made his fortune supplying iron fittings for ships.
#OTD
@philamuseum
1
33
205
Worn
#onthisday
in 1881 by Princess Stéphanie of Belgium to marry Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria. The point de gaze veil designed by Leon Sacré was a gift from the city of Brussels, incorporating flowers, a lion, and coats of arms of Belgium and Austria.
#OTD
@amhistorymuseum
3
58
209
Worn
#onthisday
in 1968 by a bride. The Belleville Sasoon coatdress was inspired Russian uniforms and the 1965 film "Dr. Zhivago." The silk cloqué is trimmed with Arctic fox fur and elaborate silver and cream frogging, concealing two zippers. The hood is detachable.
@V_and_A
#OTD
5
25
206
Worn
#onthisday
in 1816 by Princess Charlotte of Wales when she married Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg. London dressmaker Mrs. Triaud made the gown. As the only daughter of George IV, Charlotte would have become Queen of England had she not died in childbirth in 1817.
@RCT
#OTD
1
37
203
Worn
#onthisday
in 1879 by Adda Thomas Clements for her
#wedding
in Winona, MN. St. Paul dressmaker Mary G. Worley made the gown and matching dolman-style cape of purple velvet and satin trimmed with fur and chenille.
#OTD
@mnhs
2
41
206
Worn
#onthisday
in 1944 by Mrs. S. G. Edmonds for her Tottenham Registry Office wedding. The rayon crepe dress was made by Lo Roco and sold by the John Lewis department store for £6 19s 6d--a high price, as it was not made under the wartime Utility scheme.
#OTD
@MuseumofLondon
3
20
204
Worn
#onthisday
in 2014 by Lupita Nyong'o when she won
@TheAcademy
Award for Best Supporting Actress in "12 Years a Slave" at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, CA. Her gold headband and
@Prada
gown in a hue she dubbed "Nairobi Blue" shot with silver thread won the red carpet.
#OTD
5
21
206
Worn
#onthisday
in 1860 by Emeline Butler Posey, 24, as her "second day" dress after marrying Henry Dixon Posey in Henderson Co., KY. Many women, especially in the South, had photographs taken in their “second day” dress. Emeline's wedding gown has not survived.
#OTD
@smithsonian
2
31
196
Worn
#onthisday
in 1858 by Empress Eugenie to the Paris Opera, where an Italian anarchist threw bombs at her carriage; 8 were killed and 156 hurt. In a well-received show of fortitude, she and Emperor Napoleon III proceeded to their box and enjoyed Rossini’s "William Tell."
#OTD
1
53
200
Worn
#onthisday
in 1957 by Jacqueline Kennedy to the Tiffany Ball in Newport, RI. She wore it in a portrait by
@KarshYousuf
taken around the same time against a Coromandel screen at her family home in Newport. The gown was made by Sorelle Fontana of Rome in 1954.
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@JFKLibrary
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in 1911 with a headpiece of wax orange blossoms, a veil, and gloves by Mary Peterson when she married Walter T. Wells in Manila. The daughter of the Sheriff of the Philippines, Mary met her future husband while sailing to Manila with her parents.
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@FIDMMuseum
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27
200
Worn
#onthisday
in 1940 by exotic dancer Edna Squire-Brown, leaving her bombed-out house for her
#wedding
to
@RoyalAirForce
Flying Officer J.C. Martin at St. George's Church in Forest Hill, London, followed by a reception at home. Martin would be killed in action in 1941.
#OTD
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37
200
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in 1815 by the Perceval sisters at the Duchess of Richmond's ball in Brussels, three days before the battle of Waterloo, during which the Duke of Wellington received word that the French army was less than 50 miles away, ruining the party.
#OTD
@Fashion_Museum
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46
201
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#onthisday
in 1867 by Archduchess Mathilde of Austria, 18, when she died at
Hetzendorf Palace in Vienna: a gauze evening gown, which went up in flames when she hid a lit cigarette behind her back as her father entered the room. He had strictly forbidden smoking.
#OTD
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34
199
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#onthisday
in 1898 by Georgina, Lady Belhaven and Stenton, to present her daughters, Lenore and May Hamilton, at Buckingham Palace. Messrs. Bradley of Westbourne Grove made their gowns: white for the debutantes and violet for their mother, with a velvet train.
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@V_and_A
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in 1847 by Anna Reigart at her church
#wedding
to John Haldeman in Lancaster, PA. The two-piece white silk gown is overlaid with chiffon embroidered in silver with sprigs that may represent myrtle, an emblem of Venus, goddess of love.
#OTD
@amhistorymuseum
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16
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in 1912 by Signe Maria Lindh at the centennial of the Finnish Cadet Corps. The 2-piece gown by Ellen Helin of Helsinki is made of silk overlaid with silk gauze in a floral pattern, contrasting light and heavy, translucent and opaque materials.
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@Museovirasto
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28
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#onthisday
in 1969 by Pamela Colin, a former Vogue editor, at her
#wedding
to widowed diplomat Baron Harlech in London. A braid headdress echoed the Celtic scrollwork on the bodice of the wool gown by Jean Muir, worn with Italian-made Dal Co' shoes.
#OTD
@V_and_A
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21
195
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#onthisday
in 1966 by fashion designer Mary Quant when she was awarded the Order of the British Empire at Buckingham Palace. The wool jersey dress with a low waist and short skirt was typical of the youthful fashions she sold in her King's Road boutique Bazaar.
#OTD
@V_and_A
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25
193
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in 1952 by Jane Easter at her church
#wedding
to John Straub in Peru, IN. She purchased the silk taffeta and tulle
@Dior
gown from the Marshall Field's Bridal Salon in Chicago, IL.
#OTD
@ChicagoMuseum
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27
188
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in 1959 by Queen Elizabeth II to a state banquet at the Nova Scotian Hotel in Halifax during her 45-day tour of Canada. The gray silk organdy and pink duchesse satin Hardy Amies gown was embroidered with mayflowers, the official symbol of Nova Scotia.
#OTD
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21
192
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in 1953 by Queen Elizabeth II for her coronation in Westminster Abbey. She wore the Norman Hartnell gown--patriotically woven of fibers from an English silk farm in Kent and embroidered with symbols of Commonwealth countries--a total of 7 times.
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@wabbey
@RCT
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72
192
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#onthisday
in 1922 by Earl Mountbatten and Edwina Ashley at their wedding in London. The bridal party included 3 princesses and 1 prince, the future Edward VIII. Reville made the gown of crystal- and diamanté-embroidered silver tissue with its 4-yard train.
#OTD
@NPGLondon
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23
189
Jacques Fath gown worn
#onthisday
in 1957 by Cynthia Jebb, wife of the British Ambassador to France, to a dinner in the Salle des Caryatides of the Louvre on the last night of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip's state visit to Paris. The waist measures 22.8 inches.
#OTD
@V_and_A
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189