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| Picture No | 10504358 |
| Date | 1913 |
| Description | Dresses designed for the 1913 royal wedding |
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Three dresses designed for royal guests to wear to the wedding of Princess Alexandra, Duchess of Fife to Prince Arthur of Connaught. In the centre is the dress designed for Queen Alexandra of white net heavily embroidered in jet and steel. The corsage is trimmed with black tulle caught with a jet buckle at the waist, while the angel sleeves are of embroidered net. The dress on the right is for the Princess Royal, the bride's mother (Princess Louise, eldest daughter of Edward VII) and of grey charmeuse with grey tulle outlined in pailettes of steel and crystal with a cluster of shaded roses at the waist. The dress of Princess Victoria, the bride's aunt, is on the right and of pale apricot charmeuse draped over fine rayed embroidery executed in topazes. Inset picture is one of the trousseau hats, trimmed with ostrich feathers.
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| Source | Photograph in The Sphere, 18 October 1913 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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