Womans Clothing
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The earliest costume in the collection is a women’s dress of acid –yellow silk c.1760, donated with a corset which may well have been part of the original ensemble.
In general, everyday costume and occupational dress is not as well represented as the finer or Sunday Best outfits, and therefore great emphasis is placed on contemporary accounts and photographic records to provide accurate information in this respect. We are fortunate to have an extensive archive of the work of the photographer W. A. Green, for reference to images of daily life in early twentieth century Ireland.
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The museum has a particularly fine collection of wedding dresses from 1859 to the 1970s and these formed the core of a 1991 exhibition “Tying the Knot” which explored marrriage traditions in Ireland.
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