White for a bride - the wedding dress of Svea Beata Myhrman, worn 19 August 1854

 

This sublime creation was worn by Svea Beata Myhrman (19 August 1819, Filipstad - 11 March 1910, Stockholm) on her wedding day, the nineteenth of August, 1854. That day also happened to be her thirty-fifth birthday, thirty-five being considered, for the time, exceedingly mature for a new bride. Her new husband was Gustaf Myhrman (30 January 1816, Stockholm - 30 September 1872), a brukspatron and notarie (millowner and notary). They would have three children. The first, Gustaf Johan Götrik Myhrman, was born a year after the couple's marriage but would die in his third year. Their second, Signe Beata Myhrman, was born 31 July 1857. I've found no record of her death date, but she would go on to be a folkskollärarinna (primary school teacher). Their third child and second son, Yngve Götrik Myhrman, was born the following year. A bokhållare - bookkeeper - he died in 1887 at the age of only twenty-eight or twenty-nine. The children's mother outlived her husband by almost forty years and died in Stockholm at the age of ninety.

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The "care and feeding" of an antique garment.

Images courtesy of the Nordiska Museet.