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Wedding dress from 1874 can still be worn by bride’s great-great-granddaughter – Stuff.co.nz

A bridal outfit kept for a baby who never knew her mother has been treasured by her family for nearly 150 years.

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Tricia Jamieson has tears in her eyes as she recounts the story of her great-great-grandmother’s royal blue wedding dress.
But this isn’t just a story she is wearing the bridal outfit that Ann Chambers sewed together for her marriage to William Ward nearly 150 years ago.
Two years later she died in childbirth, having a daughter, Jamieson says.
I think the amazing thing is that he hung on to the dress.
Tricia Jamieson from Stratford has inherited her great-great-grandmother’s handmade wedding…

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