Haute couture Wedding dress consisting of a cream silk satin bodice and draped and trained skirt decorated with embroidered net and artificial pearls, and a veil and a non-associated petticoat. Wedding dress Gladman & Womack London 1885 In the 1880s the cut and decoration of fashionable dress frequently drew on historical styles. The drapery of this wedding dress, worn by May Primrose for her marriage to Major Herbert Littledale in June 1885, has similarities with a late 17th-century informal gown called a mantua. When the bride died only a year after her marriage, her family carefully preserved her dress. Silk satin, skirt decorated with embroidered net, artificial pearls and metal thread tassels Given by the Hon. Mrs S.F. Tyser V&A: T.428&A-1990 [2011] Wedding dress consisting of a silk satin bodice, a skirt, a veil and petticoat, made by Gladman & Womack, London, 1885