The American SetA High School Friendship, Sewn Into a Blue Ballgown
When Catherine got engaged, she had already chosen her dressmaker: Molly Klemm, a friend from their high school days. Klemm makes costumes for the stage and for period dress. The gown she made was a ballgown, and it was blue rather than the expected white. Catherine wore it at her wedding in Virginia, which the couple organized around a murder mystery theme. A dress like that shows the skills of someone used to building clothes for theater and for earlier centuries. It also shows how long the two women have known each other. The dressmaker was settled on the day of the engagement, before any other plan for the wedding had been made.
With reporting from Green Wedding Shoes.