Ivory crêpe wedding dress worn by Despoina Chondraki to marry Michalis Pachnos in 1940 in Chios. The weddingdress and her dowry made up at the “Orfanotrofeio” (Orphanage), where refugees from Asia Minor were housed.
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Title: Wedding dress
Creator: Unknown
Date Created: 1940
Location Created: Chios, Greece
Provenance: Donated by Eleni Pachnou-Papafilippou
Photographer: Costas Vergas
Rights: rr-f
Medium: Crepe
Bibliographic References: FOGG, MARNIE(2011), "Vintage Weddings: One hundred years of bridal fashion and style", New York, Lark - LANSDELL, AVRIL(1983), "Wedding Fashions 1860-1980", Buckinghamshire, Shire Publications Ltd.
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