Museum Exhibition
Wedding Attire: Three Cultures, One Celebration
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
From December 22, 2025
This presentation of wedding ensembles and related accessories from China, Japan, and Ottoman Turkey and the Balkans illustrates this diversity.
Exhibition artworks
Representative work
China
Woman’s wedding jacket and skirt
early 20th century
Silk and metallic thread embroidery on silk satin
Overall (46.187.2a): 29 1/2 x 40 in. (74.9 x 101.6 cm) Overall (46.187.2b): 40 x 40 in. (101.6 x 101.6 cm)
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Japan
Wedding ensemble with cranes, pines, and rising-cloud patterns
early 20th century
Crepe silk with resist-dyed patterns and gold-and-silk thread embroidery
a): H (shoulder to hem) 62 in. (157.5 cm); W (wrist opening to wrist opening) 49 in. (124.5 cm) b): H (shoulder to hem) 60 3/4 in. (154.3 cm); W (wrist opening to wrist opening) 49 1/4 in. (125.1 cm)
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Bindalli Wedding Dress
mid-19th–early 20th century
Cotton, metal wrapped thread; embroidered
Length at CB: 57 1/2 in. (146.1 cm)
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