Worn by donor at the wedding of her daughter Inez to Gonzalo de la Gandara in Biarritz, France, in November 1932 and also at the wedding of her granddaughter Luz de la Gandara to Count Adas Goluchowski in Madrid, Spain in December 1953.
Worn by Mrs. Henry A. Rumsey. In 1911, the Rumseys commissioned a grand home - modeled after the eighteenth-century Clifford Manor House in Warwickshire, England - on eight acres in Lake Forest, Illinois. The label on this dress states it was made...
Worn by donor, Mrs. C. Phillip Miller, née Florence Lowden, daughter of Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois and Mrs. Lowden who was a daughter of George Mortimer Pullman.
Frances Lee purchased this dress from the custom bridal salon at Marshall Field & Co. The wedding was located at the Glessner's Prairie Avenue mansion on Chicago's South Side.
Dior, Christian (designer); Christian Dior, Inc. (designer)
1947
Ballerina Maria Tallchief donated this dress, the Museum's only piece from Dior's historic first collection. Tallchief was prima ballerina of the New York City Ballet for eighteen years and later became the artistic director of Chicago's Lyric...
Worn by donors' mother, Mary P. Withers, on the occasion of her marriage to Clive Runnells on September 10, 1921, in Lake Forest, Illinois at the Church of the Holy Spirit.
Wedding dress worn by Mrs. L. Hubbard (Elaine Black) Shattuck for her marriage, December 18, 1926. Mr. Shattuck was the director of the Chicago Historical Society from 1927-1945.
