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HUGHES & STARNES Wedding Dress, ca. 1915 #empiredress in either case

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Description

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It is an exceptional piece for collectors of antique fashion

The bustle skirt is a masterpiece of layered construction

and subtle wear to the lace and hem trim

It is pleated at the back and attached to the bodice as an “apron skirt” using strings

HUGHES & STARNES Wedding Dress, ca. 1915 #empiredress in either caseExtraordinary wedding dress with an eventful history, dated November 1915. On November 9, 1915, Dorothy Helen Hodges and Captain E. G. Gidley Kitchen, Royal Civil Engineer, married in Peshawar (Pakistan). The captain was stationed there with an English army corps. Dorothy Helen's father was an engineer himself, chief engineer at the Indian State Railways to be precise. Perhaps father and son in law knew each other through their careers, so that the

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