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Object Name |
Dress, Wedding |
Caption |
Two-piece wedding dress |
Description |
Two piece wedding dress of nubby black fabric with long net train and a bustle pad. Worn by Ida Klopfleisch for her October 12, 1898 wedding to Fred Duehn. The long sleeve fitted dress top has a green scalloped ruffle that goes across the front and hooks to the left shoulder, center hook & eye closure, nine inner stays, brown cotton inner lining and hooks at waist to attach to skirt. According to a wedding photo the original top had a wide white lace collar, wide shoulder epaulet type white lace, and wide white lace gathered at the sleeve ends. These were replaced at some point by narrower ecru lace at wrists and a narrow ecru lace tie-on collar. The full skirt is lined with brown cotton and has a gathered bustle area at the back. It has eyes at the waist to attach to hooks on top bodice, straps on each side of waist for hanging up the skirt and a narrow corduroy street sweeper inside the bottom hem. The blue & white striped bustle pad for pinning inside the skirt back is filled with nylon stockings and was probably added later when the dress was modeled. The long net train is ivory colored and has lace trim along the length of the train and along the cap style headpiece. Artificial plastic flowers adorn the sides of the cap where it joins the gathered train. Ida Klopfleisch Duehn was born May 3, 1878, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Christ Klopfleisch. She married Friedrich Duehn on October 12, 1898 at Sumter Methodist Church where they first met. The couple lived on a farm two miles east of Brownton until 1951 when they moved into Brownton. Fred was born April 22, 1870 and came with his pioneer parents to McLeod County when he was 13 years old and settled on a farm in Sumter Township. Fred died December 14, 1951 and Ida died January 22, 1962. Fred & Ida Duehn were grandparents of donor Marjorie Weerts Streich. Their wedding photo is in family history 2006-0210-001, "The Ancestry of the Duehn's 1827-2002" |
Catalog Number |
2015-0056-001 |
Search Terms |
Klopfleisch Family Duehn Family Wedding dresses Wedding veils Wedding headpieces |
Subjects |
Wedding costume Veils |
People |
Klopfleisch, Ida Duehn, Ida Klopfleisch Duehn, Frederick |