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Often in historical books, brides are depicted
wearing white dresses. Even in films set in historical periods (from Middle Age
to the eighteenth century) brides always wear a white dress.
Unfortunately, this isn’t historically accurate.
Queen Victoria launched the fashion to wear white
for a bride. Before her, brides wore whatever fine dress they own, often red or
blue, with a few flowers adorning their heads.
In the nineteenth century, the bleaching process to
obtain sparkling white fabric was extremely expensive and incredibly difficult.
Basically, there was no such a thing as “white”
fabric. The colour was somewhere in between beige and “panna” (a cream-colour
that tended to yellow in time).
Queen Victoria wanted to help the always suffering
fabric factories of Spitalfields and ordered her sparkling white wedding dress
with a white lace that was destroyed after the ceremony, so that the pattern
couldn’t be copied. Her choice caused a scandal among the English peers.
Victoria didn’t want to wear the traditional red wedding dress of the previous
queens, or the crown, and not even the fur-trimmed cloak. Oh the horror! A blow
for the aristocracy that relied on tradition.
Victoria wanted to give the image of a simple woman
marrying the man she loved (and she was deeply in love with Albert) and not
that of a queen marrying out of duty.
I’d say she succeeded because after her wedding,
every bride itched to wear a proper white dress … to these days.
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