Wedding dress (detail)

• Place of origin:

  London, England (made)

• Date:

  January 1902 (made) 
  10 February 1902 (worn)

• Artist/Maker:

  Sarah Fullerton Monteith Young (designer and maker) 
  Grosvenor, Alice Sibell (Hon.) (embroidery motifs, designer)

• Materials and Techniques:

  Hand-painted, overembroidered crystalline organza mounted over silk satin and chiffon

  Wedding dress of shiny faced cream satin veiled in chiffon and covered with crystalline organza. It is trimmed with painted shaded pale blue fabric applique, feather stitches in cream and gilt with long silver beads applied.

  Courtesy of V&A Collections, UK