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Yellow Wedding Dress

1879

Bought in Paris, this dress was worn by Jinny Townsend on her wedding day in 1879. Yellow was a fashionable colour in the Victorian period. Jinny’s diary survives and in it she describes the trip to Paris to buy the dress, a month before her wedding.

Jinny lived just around the corner in the Cathedral Close. She had three children in just three years of marriage before she died in 1882.

More detail about this item can be found here.

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