As part of the Victorian Costumes group ( Victorian Era Ball, Toronto ), Mrs Forsyth-Grant (née Minnie Beverley Robinson) wore her grandmother's dress, dating from the second decade of the nineteeth century. She tied the scarf around her waist as a sash, and added some lace at the neckline. The other accessories seen in the photograph may also have been heirlooms, although they have not yet been identified in a museum collection.
Mrs. Forsyth-Grant was the author of a travelogue entitled Scenes in Hawaii, or Life in the Sandwich Islands.
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Toronto, 1897 English, ca. 1817 Dress: Silk and wool gauze with yellow silk stripe; silk satin trim Scarf: Striped figured silk gauze Loan courtesy of the Royal Ontario Museum, 969.19.1 and 969.19.2 |
Toronto, 1897 Barnes Brothers Reproduced from Henry Morgan, Types of Canadian Women, Toronto: Briggs, 1903 |
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