Picture No | 10502946 |
Date | October 1913 |
Description | Royal Wedding 1913 -- Connaught Fife -- wedding dress |
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Women in the workshop of Felix Barolet in Knightsbridge, making the wedding dress for the wedding of Arthur, Prince of Connaught and Alexandra, Duchess of Fife, which took place in the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace, London, on 15 October 1913. In the foreground are two women, working on the dress on a tailor's dummy, on a raised platform. It was made of white charmeuse satin, with an under dress finely embroidered in leaves and in lilies with pearls, diamante and silver. In the background several more women are at work, sitting round a table.
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Source | Photograph by Record Press, in The Illustrated London News, 18 October 1913, p.599 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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