The Ballroom Costumes


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.
 

Dress and scarf worn by Mrs. Forsyth-Grant
Mrs. Forsyth-Grant
Dress and scarf worn by Mrs. Forsyth-Grant in the Victorian Costumes group
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
Mrs. Forsyth-Grant in the Victorian Costumes group
Toronto, 1897
Barnes Brothers
Reproduced from Henry Morgan,
Types of Canadian Women, Toronto: Briggs, 1903

 
Back
Menu
Continue