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Helen Campbell's Wedding Dress Train

Helen Campbell's Wedding Dress Train - Dress, Wedding; Train
Accession #: 3096.1B
Title: Helen Campbell's Wedding Dress Train
Object Type: Dress, Wedding; Train
Participants:
Physical Description: 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:
3096.1 (Hickson & Company, Dress, Wedding, Helen Campbell's Wedding Dress, 1917)
3096.1A (Hickson & Company, Dress, Wedding, Helen Campbell's Wedding Dress, 1917)
Subjects/Topics/Concepts:
Women (Women); Clothing (Personal Artifact); Marriage (Communication->Ceremonial)
Geographical Reference: Campbell House (Washington->Spokane County->Spokane); New York City (National->New York)
Dimensions:
train length 90"
Materials/Techniques:
crepe (Material)
satin (Material)
Marks/Inscription:
Hickson/New York - Boston/M[iss Campbell]/Date - No.[81875];
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs.Valarie Powell, 1985

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