Tuesday, September 29, 2015
This Bride Will Be The 11th Person In Her Family To Wear 120-Year-Old Wedding Dress (22 Pics)
As the old English rhyme goes the bride must wear “something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue” to her wedding.
Pennsylvania-born Abigail Kingston got the “old” part down perfectly since she is a part of a tradition of wearing a wedding gown that had been passed down through her family from generation to generation.
“When I was younger, while I was playing piano at my parents’ house, there was a framed picture of the first six brides wearing the dress, so I would think, ‘Someday,’” Kingston told.
Once she got engaged, she told her mother, Leslie, she wanted to try to track it down. Leslie also wore the gown, so she was all for the idea.
The tradition actually started 50 years ago, because Mary Lowry’s daughters were not interested in wearing the dress.
It was not an easy ride for the dress when Abigail received it, the dress had yellowed and was full of tears and holes due to its old age. After 200 hours of painstaking expert restoration, she was still only able to wear it to the cocktail hour, as it was too fragile.
The second bride, Jane Woodruff, wears the dress for her Feb. 20, 1946, wedding to John Kearns.
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