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Helen Campbell's Wedding Dress

Helen Campbell's Wedding Dress - Dress, Wedding
Accession #: 3096.1
Title: Helen Campbell's Wedding Dress
Object Type: Dress, Wedding
Participants:
Physical Description: White satin wedding dress with net overlay and square neckline. Decorated with pearls and floral embroidery. Train is made of white satin and lined with white crepe; hooks to shoulders of dress.
Description: Helen Campbell married William Weaver Powell at her Spokane home on June 27, 1917. In preparation, she and her mother Grace Campbell made several visits to Hickson's during their March 1917 stay in New York City. There, they ordered and had fittings for not only the wedding dress, which Helen described as "so simple and such long lines," but also Mrs. Campbell's jet-embroidered black satin mother-of-the-bride dress and several other suits and dresses. At Bernard's, they found a pink tulle dress for maid-of-honor Mary White and a dress for her mother Maude. They also purchased flowers for the bridesmaids, possibly the "trailing garlands of deep pink morning glories" noted in newspaper accounts of the bridesmaid's dresses.
Category: Campbell Collection
Related Objects:
3096.1A (Hickson & Company, Dress, Wedding, Helen Campbell's Wedding Dress, 1917)
3096.1B (Hickson & Company, Dress, Wedding; Train, Helen Campbell's Wedding Dress Train, 1917)
Subjects/Topics/Concepts:
Women (Women); Clothing (Personal Artifact)
Geographical Reference: Campbell House (Washington->Spokane County->Spokane); New York City (National->New York)
Dimensions:
skirt length 43" (A)
waist 28" (A)
bust 32" (A)
sleeve length 30" (A)
train length 90" (B)
Materials/Techniques:
bead (Material)
satin (Material)
Marks/Inscription:
Hickson/New York - Boston/M[iss Campbell]/Date - No.[81875];
Related Exhibits:
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Valarie Powell, 1985

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