This dress was discounted because a sibling worked at a wedding dress shop. It’s definitely a one of a kind unique Victorian dress. Lots of compliments!! It was only worn four hours: wedding, luncheon, and an openhouse.
It was later custom altered by a professional wedding dress seamstress to alter the size (original dress label said Size 8; it was modified to fit Size 10/12) and to add Elizabethan sleeves instead of the short sleeved scalloped sleeves it had prior to alterations.
I had it professionally dry cleaned after the wedding and it is being preserved in a white cloth garment bag with a plastic garment bag over that to prevent yellowing.