This Edwardian Era (1901 – 1910) dressing gown, an incarnation of the house dress, is made of white cotton lawn and was part of the wedding trousseau of Birgitte Nikoline Hofstad. Birgitte was born in Bo, a small fishing village in Vesteralen, Nordland, Norway in 1874 and came to America in 1898, where she had family in Wrangell, Alaska. She married her father's half-brother Isak Myrhe Hofstad several years later.
A bride's trousseau would include family heirlooms, handmade clothing and linens usually crafted by the bride and her female relatives. The ruffled eyelet trim, pintucks and tiny ple...
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