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Wedding dress with pinked flounces
The tiny waist (59 cm) of the Amsterdam bride Seraphine Asscher came very close to the then prevailing ideal of beauty: the perfect waist fit between two male hands. In keeping with tradition, the seamstress made a modest dress for this Jewish
bride, but decorated the bodice and train with fashionable ruffled ‘effilé flounces.’ This technique involves cutting away fabric to create movement and tex…
Type of item
- Object Type: fashion objects
- fashion objects
Type of item
- Object Type: fashion objects
- fashion objects
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- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Creation date
- 1891
- 1891
Identifier
- BK-1969-32
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/europeana-fashion/BK-1969-32
Language
- nl
- nld
Year
- 1891
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2022-04-21T11:41:12.945Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2022-04-21T11:41:12.945Z