JPK Huson 1863
Brev. Brig. Gen'l
- Joined
- Feb 14, 2012
- Location
- Central Pennsylvania
The first documented, white wedding dress was worn in 14o6. Philippa of England wore white as a squirrel-and ermine lined, white silk tunic. We do not know why. In 1559 Mary, Queen of Scots wore white, the color of mourning in France when she married Frenchman Francis Dauphin. Seems risky but ok. https://www.marryjim.com/en/page/show/id/30/template/history History provides a gap between Mary and Victoria who married Albert wearing a white wedding gown in 1840. Why a white wedding gown? Not, please know to advertise her pure state- that was a given. Shocking implying otherwise! Victoria wished to incorporate some favorite, white lace. Blue symbolized purity, not white by the way.
Queen Victoria's wedding was photographed beginning a demand for white wedding dresses - a bang of white froth, frills and lace heard around the western world and felt into 2016. I did say Western. ' White Weddings ', you should excuse the expression, are by no means a world wide tradition. As much as we would love to imagine ours the predominant culture we just, plain are not. A Chinese bride will look in the red dress department as will our Indian ( from India.... ) and Vietnamese sisters, a Japanese bride will begin her wedding wearing white but because it symbolizes death. She is now dead to her family! She changes to a sari of color at some point ( not familiar enough to say what and when ).
Safe to say Victoria's wedding did not transform all brides into visions of white lace, net, taffeta and general fluff. It took awhile for me personally to understand quite a few photographs of ' Civil War Couples ' ( meaning kinda era- a lot have been misidentified ) were really their wedding photograph! This whole ' wedding dress ' thing was why- a bride in a white dress? Got that. A man in the 1850's and 1860's version of a tux or fine suit of clothing, his significant other in something other than white? Ping, over my head. Got it now.
Not positive on all of these but pretty good guess. Not all are war era, please know.
This was of course easy! She'd added a perfectly lovely veil and both were so cute, holding their wedding rings for all to see.
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