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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Images courtesy of the Nordiska Museet.
Hello Stephilius,
ReplyDeleteThis dress was posted on Facebook by my brother Peter. I was so taken by it. I am very lucky to find your blog and will follow it.
I would love to know where the dress can be seen and more, if you know, about the care of this amazing garment.
Many thanks in advance,
Chris Lione
P.S. By writing to you will I automatically be following?
Thank you so much, Chris! I don't really know where to get more information about the dress, but as I tagged the post at the end, the images came from the Nordiska Museet. So I'm thinking that if you Google that, you can probably discover more on their website?
DeleteI don't think posting here will start you following; embarrassed to say I don't remember how the thing works! But at the very bottom of the page there's a "Subscribe to" link, so maybe that'll do it...?