%0 Journal Article %T A camisola do dia: patrim£¿nio t¨ºxtil da cultura material nupcial (Rio Grande do Sul, do in¨ªcio a meados do s¨¦culo XX) %A Cerqueira %A F¨¢bio Vergara %A Santos %A Denise Ondina Marroni dos %J Estudos Hist¨®ricos (Rio de Janeiro) %D 2011 %I Centro de Pesquisa e Documenta??o de Hist¨®ria Contempor?nea do Brasil da Funda??o Get¨²lio Vargas %R 10.1590/S0103-21862011000200004 %X the goal of this article is to study the "camisola do dia" (wedding day nightdress), a piece of the bride's trousseau made especially for the wedding night, used from the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century. as a textile cultural good, we consider it one of the central components of the "wedding material culture", which carries a symbolism linked with the place of women and marriage in modern occidental christian society. our attention is turned both to the know-how (the embroidery technique) and to social memories. we seek to understand its immaterial dimension to reveal the net of meanings that surround it. %K clothing %K wedding %K material culture %K orality %K cultural heritage %K social memory. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0103-21862011000200004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en