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Wedding Dress with Notched Strips
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
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 texture.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineTrouwjurk met gekartelde stroken. 1891. Espérance Pos. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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