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Worn #onthisday in 1913 by a woman trying to board a streetcar in New York, NY. In 1912, the city's first "step-less" streetcars had been introduced to accomodate the fashion for tight-fitting "hobble" skirts. #OTD
📷 Library of Congress
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Worn #onthisday in 1954 by Sheila Mackintosh at her #wedding to Comte Jean de Rochambeau in Saint-Brice, France. She met the designer, Christian Dior, through her work as a Vogue editor. The shirtdress-style gown is embroidered with clovers, a nod to her Scottish heritage. #OTD
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Worn #onthisday in 1990 by Adeline Blondieau at her #wedding to rocker Johnny Hallyday--a friend of her father's--in Saint-Tropez, France. Gérard Pipart, artistic director of Nina Ricci, made the white tulle couture gown, inspired by the film "Gone with the Wind." #OTD
📷 Drouot
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Worn #onthisday in 1896 by Jessie Carter at her #wedding to Dr. Langdon T. Snipe in Bath, ME. The silk and cotton gown's A-line skirt and leg-of-mutton sleeves are classic hallmarks of 1890s fashion. #OTD
📷 Maine Historical Society
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Worn #onthisday in 1945 by Margaret Scott and her bridesmaids at her #wedding to Cpl. Milton Holley, an American airman based in Deenethorpe, UK. Ten months later, she and their baby sailed for New York with 520 other war brides; the couple settled in Michigan. #OTD
📷 Imperial War Museum
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Worn #onthiday in 2007 by Queen Margrethe II of Denmark to celebrate Queen Sonja's 70th birthday in Arendal, Norway. Danish designer Jørgen Bender fashioned the colorful coat out of tablecloth fabric the queen acquired in London in 1995. #OTD
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Worn #onthisday in 1805 by Javier Goya and Gumersinda Goicoechea at their #wedding in Madrid, Spain, captured in miniatures on copper by the groom's father, Francisco Goya. Javier, the youngest of Goya's 8 children, was the only one to live to adulthood. #OTD
📷 Museo de Zaragoza
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Baseball jerseys worn #onthisday in 1960 by actress (and Baltimore resident) Dorothy Lamour and Orioles first baseman Walt Dropo, posing in front of the grandstand at Fenway Park in Boston, MA, before his game against the Red Sox. Happy 4th of July from WOTD! #OTD
📷 Boston Public Library
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Worn #onthisday in 1870 by Mary Mullins for her austral winter #wedding to Timothy Gallagher in Hokitika, New Zealand. She'd refused to marry the MP until his term ended. The blue hue and detachable train of the princess-line taffeta gown made it easy to wear again. #OTD
📷 Te Papa
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Worn #onthisday in 1897 to the Devonshire House costume ball in London by sisters Lady Lurgan and Lady Sophie Scott. One guest recalled: "My sense of humour was ticked by two sisters who went to the Ball as the 'Furies,' and wore hair nets to keep their heads tidy!" #OTD
📷 Victoria & Albert Museum
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Service tunic and forage cap worn #onthisday in 1916 by British Army Cpt. George Johnson when he was wounded in the chest, pelvis, and forearm on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, where his battalion took heavy losses. He survived and lived into his 90s. #OTD
📷 National Army Museum, London
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Worn #onthisday in 1900 by Emily Poor at her #wedding to Navy Lieutenant W. S. Montgomery in Hackensack, NJ. New York dressmaker Mrs. O’Donovan made her cream silk satin gown with a wax orange blossom corsage, a 7-foot train, and rose point lace trimmings. #OTD
📷 Fashion Museum, Bath
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Worn #onthisday in 1978 by Princess Caroline of Monaco at her #wedding to Philippe Junot in Monte Carlo. She chose a boho-chic Marc Bohan for Christian Dior gown in sheer embroidered organdy with bell sleeves and a floral headdess for the ceremony in the palace courtyard. #OTD
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Worn #onthisday in 2004 by gay couples at the 4th annual #Wedding Party ceremony, kicking off New York City's Gay #Pride march. The event was a symbolic exchange of marriage vows to show the need for same-sex civil unions, which New York state legalized in 2011. #OTD
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Worn #onthisday in 1907 at the #wedding of William Tennant and the Hon. Winifred Norton in London. Per the Telegraph, the bridesmaids wore "charming Romney dresses" of striped white crystalline with blue sashes, accessorized with 18th-century fichus and mob caps. #OTD
📷Victoria and Albert Museum
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Worn #onthisday in 1921 by Elizabeth Parke at her #wedding to Harvey S. Firestone, Jr.--son of the founder of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company--in Decatur, IL. She likely made her hand-sewn gown and lace headdress (inspired by Russian folk dress) herself. #OTD
📷 The Henry Ford
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Won #onthisday in 1939 by Betty Hucklebridge and her bridesmaids at her #wedding to Clive Dawson at the Mission Inn in Riverside, CA. "Bridesmaid veils" in the same hue as the bridesmaid dresses were popular accessories beginning in the early 1800s. #OTD
📷 UC Riverside
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Worn #onthisday in 1954--9 days after graduating from Cornell--by Ruth Bader at her intimate #wedding to law student Martin Ginsburg in the wood-paneled living room of his parents' house on Long Island, NY, where the chuppah was placed in front of the fireplace. #OTD
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Worn #onthisday in 1959 by actress Dorothy Dandridge at her Greek Orthodox church #wedding to her second husband, nightclub owner Jack Denison, in Los Angeles, CA. Berman of London made her ballerina-length gown of white mousseline de soie and lace and matching picture hat. #OTD
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Worn #onthisday in 1905 by Mary Paterson at her #wedding to Robert Ayson at the Kaihiku Presbyterian Church in South Otago, New Zealand. She made the silk and lace gown herself, with help from her mother. #OTD
📷 Otago Settlers Museum
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Eyelet dress and glove worn #onthisday in 1948 by a Black bride, Althea Unthank, at her #wedding to Joseph Harmon, Jr., in New Castle, DE. The dress is a copy of one she saw in Seventeen magazine, launched in September 1944, made for her by Reba Bungy Coga. #OTD
📷 Delaware Historical Society
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Worn #onthisday in 1976 by Silvia Sommerlath and her attendants at her #royal #wedding to King Carl XVI Gustaf in Stockholm. She accessorized her minimalist Marc Bohan for Dior duchesse silk satin gown with a detachable train, Queen Sofia's veil, and the 1809 Cameo Tiara. #OTD
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Worn #onthisday in 1902 by Edith Hope-Murray at her #wedding to Rev. T. Harold Senior in his London parish church, left undecorated due to her father's recent death. She wore a Houghton & Dalton gown of bengaline trimmed with passementerie and a Honiton lace veil. #OTD
📷 Victoria & Albert Museum
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Worn #onthisday in 1944 by Ellen Pfaff at her #wedding to Lt. Arthur Banfield in Dearborn, MI. She accessorized her ivory satin gown trimmed with pleated Chantilly lace with a three-tier illusion veil, a Juliet cap, and a bouquet of orchids and stephanotis. #OTD
📷 The Henry Ford Museum
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Worn #onthisday in 1906 by Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart & the Hon. Ismay Preston at their #wedding in Co. Meath, Ireland. The groom, a descendant of King Robert II, wore Highland dress; the white satin bridal gown was embroidered with silver oak leaves and shamrocks. #OTD
📷 Victoria & Albert Museum
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Worn #onthisday in 1968 by Judith Tabler at her #wedding to Peter Kelsey in Locust Valley, NY. The Daily News praised her "white peau de soie, appliqued with lace daisies, with a long tulle veil edged with rosepoint lace" made by elite Black designer Ann Lowe. #OTD
📷 Museum at FIT
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Worn #onthisday in 1997 by Snoop Dogg (Calvin Broadus Jr.) at his #wedding to high school sweetheart Shante Taylor at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Marina del Rey, CA. The 6'4" rapper has often worn suits that nod to classic gangster and Blaxploitation style. #OTD
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Worn #onthisday in 1942 by Ruth Burrows at her #wedding to Laurence Dawson in her mother's garden in Lake Forest, IL. She wore her late grandmother's 1880s gown; the Chicago Tribune called it "a quaint satin dress which recalls the styles of 60 years ago." #OTD
📷 Chicago History Museum
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Worn #onthisday in 1971 by Tricia Nixon at her White House #wedding to Edward Cox. Priscilla Kidder of Boston made the organdy bridesmaid gowns and pearl-studded silk organza and lace bridal gown, adding a ribbon with an embroidered message as "something blue." #OTD
📷 Nixon Library
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Worn #onthisday in 1971 by First Daughter Tricia Nixon and Edward Cox at a rehearsal in the White House Rose Garden for their #wedding the next day. A rehearsal in the East Room (in case of rain) and a black-tie dinner at Blair House followed. #OTD
📷 Library of Congress, Nixon Library
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Worn #onthisday in 1936 by Bouchier and Henry Hawksley, the twin great-grandsons of Charles Dickens, as pages in the #wedding of Cynthia Farmiloe and Ronald Stewart in London. One-piece "skeleton suits" were first fashionable for boys in the late 18th century. #OTD
📷 Europeana
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Worn #onthisday in 1920 by Tui McKinnon at her #wedding to Harold Mein Preston. She bought the ruffled silk georgette dress with ostrich-trimmed collar and cuffs at the Drapery Supply Association (D.S.A), a department store in Dunedin, New Zealand, founded in 1890. #OTD
📷 Te Papa
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Worn #onthisday in 1961 by Katharine Worsley at her #wedding to Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, at York Minster in York, UK--the first #royal wedding held there since 1328. Irish designer John Cavanagh made her gown with its 15-foot train, using 237 yards of French silk gauze. #OTD
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Worn #onthisday in 1975 by actor-director Ron Howard at his #wedding to high school sweetheart Cheryl Alley in Burbank, CA. Some of his "Happy Days" co-stars served as ushers in matching powder-blue tuxedos. Cheryl has had a cameo in every movie Ron has directed since 11th grade.
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Worn #onthisday in 1964 by Ann Bellah at her #wedding to Gerret van Sweringen Copeland (son of the president of the DuPont Company) in New York, NY. Pioneering Black fashion designer Ann Lowe made her silk faille gown; her lace veil was a du Pont heirloom. #OTD
📷 Delaware Historical Society
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Gown and veil worn #onthisday in 1945 by Carmel Murray when she married Thomas Byrne in Ireland. The designer, Sybil Connolly, who was working at the Dublin boutique Richard Alan at the time, was a guest at the #wedding; she would become known as "Dublin's Dior." #OTD
📷 The Hunt Museum
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Cotton bustle with a laced cage and 12 steel half-hoops worn #onthisday in 1884 with a grey silk poplin gown and matching feathered bonnet by Alice Catterall at her #wedding to Rev. James Thomas Kerby, curate of the parish church Kirkham in Lancashire, UK. #OTD
📷 Manchester Art Gallery
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Worn #onthisday in 1937 by Fern Bedaux to the #wedding of the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson (who wore blue) at her 16th-century chateau in France's Loire Valley. The tulle and lace Chanel afternoon dress once had a satin bow at the waist and a shoulder cape. #OTD
📷 Victoria & Albert Museum
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Satin and muslin gown trimmed with orange blossoms worn #onthisday in 1886 by Frances Folsom, 21, at her #wedding to President Grover Cleveland, 49, in the Blue Room of the White House; he was the only president to marry in office. #OTD
📷 Smithsonian, Library of Congress
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Worn #onthisday in 1858 by Frances "Fanny" Ringo at her #wedding to Richard H. Walker in Fleming County, KY. The undersleeves can be removed for evening wear Plaid textiles became highly fashionable after Queen Victoria bought Balmoral Castle in Scotland in 1852. #OTD
📷 Kentucky Historical Society
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Pocket watch worn #onthisday in 1889 in Johnstown, PA. It is stopped at 4:10 pm, the moment when the South Fork Dam, 14 miles upstream on the Little Conemaugh River, failed after days of heavy rainfall and flooded the town, killing more than 2,200 people. #OTD
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Worn #onthisday in 1923 by Mary Latta (left) when her mother Lady Latta (right) presented her at Buckingham Palace: “one of the most striking dresses of this court," a shimmering silver and jade green "Byzantine" gown made by F. I. and L. Wilson of Hanover Square. #OTD
📷 V&A Museum
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Tudor State Dress worn #onthisday in 1953 by Yeomen of the Guard--known as "Beefeaters"--during a dress rehearsal for Queen Elizabeth II's coronation on June 2. The baldric worn on the left shoulder distinguishes them from the Tower of London's Yeomen Warders. #OTD
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Worn #onthisday in 1975 by a mustachioed Prince Charles when he was installed as Great Master of the 250-year-old Order of the Bath at Westminster Abbey in London. The military order's name and crimson robes evoke the medieval practice of ritual purification to prepare for knighthood. #OTD
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Worn #onthisday in 1948 by Raya Kirschner, 19, for her #wedding to Miklos Feig, 22, in Camp Barletta, a displaced persons camp near Trani, Italy. Raya and her family had been deported from Lithuania by the Nazis in 1942; Micky had survived Auschwitz and Dachau. #OTD
📷 Google Arts and Culture
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Worn #onthisday in 2014 by Narendra Modi when he was sworn in as Prime Minister in Delhi, India: "his trademark long-tailed shirt with a pen clipped into the top pocket of his waistcoat" and "one of his trademark high-collared vests," per The Guardian and The Washington Post. #OTD
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Army surplus gas mask worn #onthisday in 1980 by a man in downtown Portland, OR, as protection from the volcanic ash still falling after the eruption of Mt. St. Helens, 52 miles to the northeast, one week previously, on May 18. #OTD
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Worn #onthisday in 1928 by bridesmaids in the #wedding of Piers Debenham and Angela Paget in London. The Telegraph described their "full-skirted frocks of green tulle sashed with the same coloured satin, and gold net caps bordered with wreaths of green leaves." #OTD
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