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This gown, also an early acquisition of the Fashion Review, was brought from Belfast to Canada in 1873 by the donor's grand-mother. Made of embroidered silk taffeta, the dress is made to be worn with 'panniers', a style popular in France at the time of Marie Antoinette. Panniers are a support worn under the dress to extend the width of the dress while leaving the front and back flat. Some panniers were so wide the dresses were fitted with tapes which could be used to raise the panniers in order for the wearer to pass through doorways.

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Open robe silk tafetta gown, circa 1765, with matching shoes.
Circa 1765
Costume Museum of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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Costume Museum of Canada

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Open robe silk tafetta gown, circa 1765.
Circa 1765
Costume Museum of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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Costume Museum of Canada

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McMurray/Mermagen wedding party photographed outside Winnipeg's Seven Oaks House, 1899.
27 September 1899
Costume Museum of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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Costume Museum of Canada

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John Inkster, the great-grandfather of Nancy McGowan, came to Red River in 1819 as a stone mason for the Hudson's Bay Company. He stayed on in the colony and became an important merchant. His home, built between 1851 and 1853, was the site of the Red River district's first post office and would eventually become Winnipeg's Seven Oaks House Museum. Two other family homes were built nearby. Nancy McGowan's parents, Harriet Jane McMurray (the grand-daughter of John and Mary Inkster) and Ernest Wallace Mermagen were married on September 27, 1899 and the entire wedding party was photographed outside of Seven Oaks House. Mrs. McGowan was the last family member to live in the family homes, which were donated to the City of Winnipeg and are preserved as heritage properties.

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Catalogue card for DW-6, cream satin wedding dress.
1953
Costume Museum of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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Costume Museum of Canada

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Purple satin dress worn by Harriet McMurray's aunt.
27 September 1899
Costume Museum of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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Costume Museum of Canada

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Catalogue card for DEL-202, purple satin gown.
1957
Costume Museum of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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Costume Museum of Canada

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Note from Nancy McGowan giving details about the gowns worn at her parents' wedding.
Circa 1957
Costume Museum of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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Costume Museum of Canada

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Winnifred Van Slyck wearing a black 'paper tafetta' dress, circa 1880.
1974
Dugald, Manitoba
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Credits:
Dugald Ladies Fashion Review fonds
Costume Museum of Canada

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Winnipeg's Barber House.
Circa 1930
Winnipeg, Manitoba
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Manitoba Historical Society

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The home of Barbara (Logan) Barber and Edmund Lorenzo Barber at 99 Euclid is said to have sheltered Mrs. Schultz while her husband, John Christian Schultz was on the run from Louis Riel's provisional government in 1870.

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A number of dresses were donated to the Dugald Ladies Fashion Review because they had been worn by women perceived to be members of the 'social elite', often to significant political occassions such as the opening of the Manitoba Legisalture or a reception at Manitoba's Government House.

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Gold tafetta overlaid with black lace, circa 1915.
1915
Costume Museum of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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Credits:
Winnipeg Tribune: August 31, 1966
Dugald Ladies Fashion Review fonds
Costume Museum of Canada