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12. Wedding Dresses

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A Wedding Dress From the 19th Century Ottoman Empire

Heidi Rabin is the senior curator at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. She showed off a purple velvet calf tan covered in gold embroidery depicting flowers and trees from the 19th century Ottoman Empire. A lot of these wedding clothes from this huge cross section of the globe were worn multiple times, she said.

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