{"id":89,"date":"2011-05-19T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T15:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/?p=89"},"modified":"2011-06-15T09:07:55","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T16:07:55","slug":"the-story-of-a-donated-wedding-dress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/19\/the-story-of-a-donated-wedding-dress\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story of A (Donated) Wedding Dress"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is the story of a wedding dress recently donated to Lacis Museum of Lace and Textiles<\/a> in Berkeley by Jeanne Lee, living in Ohio: \"\"<\/p>\n

\u201cMy father\u2019s brother fought in the pacific during WWII.\u00a0 He stayed in the Philippines after war and married a widow with two children.\u00a0 They never had children together.\u00a0 He worked for CAL and every 7 years they would travel around the world and that always included a stop to see us.\u00a0 When they visited in 1969, I was living at home and planning a wedding.\u00a0 My fiance was in Vietnam and their visit was a bright spot in a very bleak year.\u00a0 Since they would be not be back in the states the following year, I shared all of the weeding plans .\u00a0 I had not purchased a dress but I had a picture.\u00a0 It was a plain white A-line with a simple veil.\u00a0 Aunt Gloria said that she would take the picture back to the Philippines and have the dress made.\u00a0 I was thrilled.\u00a0 When the dress arrived in Rochester many months later, I was stunned.\u00a0 This was not the dress in the picture and it was not me.\u00a0 It is lovely dress but…\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I found a cap and veil to match and\u00a0 I have never been tempted to dress in pearls and sequence since.\u00a0\u00a0 I am sure Aunt Gloria thought I was too thin to wear a plain A-line dress.\u00a0 She added sleeves, raised the neckline, the satin panels and beading added dimension.\u00a0 It was a lovely gesture.\u201d<\/p>\n

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* All images via Lacis<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is the story of a wedding dress recently donated to Lacis Museum of Lace and Textiles in Berkeley by Jeanne Lee, living in Ohio: \u201cMy father\u2019s brother fought in the pacific during WWII.\u00a0 He stayed in the Philippines after war and married a widow with two children.\u00a0 They never had children together.\u00a0 He worked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,4,1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}