Wilcox Wedding Dress
1794 (Date manufactured/created)
silk
Worn by Comfort Peck for her marriage to Jesse Wilcox on Wednesday, February 5, 1794. The marriage was officiated by Rufus Hawley, Avon's longest minister in colonial Northington. The dress was conserved in 2023, thanks for a grant from the Abigail Phelps Chapter of the DAR.
Full-length dress of brownish light peach iridescent silk. The dress features a raised waistline with center front split closure, drawstring waist and full-length sleeves with slightly gathered shoulders and turn back sleeve cuffs. Box pleated self-fabric ruffle trim embellishment along lower hem. The dress is entirely hand-made.
The dress fabric color and featured style elements are very characteristic of this period of time from the 1790s. The wedding dress was worn by Comfort Wilcox, second wife of Jesse Wilcox, who was the great grandfather of Carrie Wilcox.
-Dress Width / (lower skirt hem edge; side seam to side seam): 21 1/2“W -Shoulder Width / (across upper back; side seam to side seam): 167/2“W -Upper Waist Circumference/ (at drawstring upper waist): 34 2“C -Sleeve Length / upper armhole seam to sleeve wrist edge): 25 12"L
Full-length dress of brownish light peach iridescent silk. The dress features a raised waistline with center front split closure, drawstring waist and full-length sleeves with slightly gathered shoulders and turn back sleeve cuffs. Box pleated self-fabric ruffle trim embellishment along lower hem. The dress is entirely hand-made.
The dress fabric color and featured style elements are very characteristic of this period of time from the 1790s. The wedding dress was worn by Comfort Wilcox, second wife of Jesse Wilcox, who was the great grandfather of Carrie Wilcox.
-Dress Width / (lower skirt hem edge; side seam to side seam): 21 1/2“W -Shoulder Width / (across upper back; side seam to side seam): 167/2“W -Upper Waist Circumference/ (at drawstring upper waist): 34 2“C -Sleeve Length / upper armhole seam to sleeve wrist edge): 25 12"L
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