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Show Her Gown Villi Welch Three Ounces. About the year 1700 a fair young bride in the village now known as New Haven wore a dainty costume of white. The gown was cut low in the neck and was sleeveless. The dress was of light and filmy texture and weighed but about threo ounces. It has been handed down from generation to generation, until it has come into tho possession of a Danbury lady. Tho dress is remarkably well preserved and is extremely valuable, valua-ble, both from its age and the beauty of the embroideries with which it is covered. The design of tho trimming is prettily worked in tho coarse linen thread so common in those days. Danbury News. |