Wedding dress with detachable sleeves
Britain
1828
Eliza Larken wore this dress to marry William (later 6th Baron) Monson at St Giles-in-the-Fields Church in London on 8 May 1828. The dress has short sleeves but it has been displayed with the matching over-sleeves worn by the bride to make it suitable for a church wedding. She completed her outfit with a net cap trimmed with lace.
Dress: silk trimmed with silk satin and silk bobbin lace, lined with cotton
Cape: silk partially lined with silk
V&A: T.124:1, 2; 374:1, 2-2009 [2011]