Nellie Grant Wedding Special, The Daily Graphic - Image 1

As their only daughter, President Grant and First Lady Julia Grant indulged in wedding gifts and a trousseau for Nellie to take to England – a “wardrobe befitting a princess.” The trousseau created for Nellie was reportedly stocked with around one hundred dresses of the handsomest fabrics and fineries so that she would not have to rely on her husband to purchase new dresses so soon after the marriage. Evening dresses, street suits, morning wear, outdoor wear, and lingerie of all sorts fabulously embellished filled the trousseau that supposedly rivaled Queen Elizabeth I’s collection.