# Wedding dress as status symbol

- By: Madame Heymans Besselink
- Date: 1902
- Medium: kant (materiaal)
- Classification: wedding dress
- Credit line: Gift of E.H. de Jong-van Dooijeweert, Amsterdam
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/BK-2003-10-A--2eacf2e7060838b2def277251ba0e03b)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/GJfnC/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.