Wedding dress as status symbol
Also titled Trouwjurk als statussymbool
1902
- Medium
- kant (materiaal)
- Classification
- wedding dress
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of E.H. de Jong-van Dooijeweert, Amsterdam
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
On the 2nd of June 1902 Elisabeth P. Fok Fraterman married Jan van Eijck in Utrecht. Her fashionable wedding-dress was made by the renowned atelier of mrs Heymans Besselink who – according to tradition – ordered the lace for the wedding-dress in Bruxelles. No expanses were spared and for the skirt alone 11 meters of satin duchesse was used. This silk is of old the fabric for wedding-dresses.
