Wedding dress, the history

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The wedding dress has not always been white. Our ancestors preferred any silver color, blue to orange blossoms.

If you were curious that color palette is limited when it comes to choosing wedding dresses is that the tradition was not really as severe as you think.

Young aristocratic young capricci, or just a preference for a color other than white, has had a great influence on the fashion of brides.

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We know that the first white dress was worn much more than 2,000 years ago when the Ancient Egyptian brides used to put a white drape rows from simple materials for the religious ceremony.

Symbol of joy, white is the color of the party in Greece, so no bride accident has chosen a white wedding dress.

And simple white dresses brides dressed in novels, paying tribute to this God, Imene god of fertility and marriage, who was thought to especially love white color.

Special and interesting accessories used both Roman and Greek brides is a colorful veil that covers her face as a sign of obedience and devotion to her husband.

In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, one of the earliest official documents appears remembers the white wedding dress of Anna of Brittany in the marriage with King Louis XII of France.

Margaret Tudor, daughter of Henry VI, married dressed in a white damask dress, finished with red scarlet – the traditional color of royalty.

In 1612 Princess Elisabetta, daughter of James I wore a silver dress embroidered with pearls, silver wire, and jewels.

From any color to white.

From the eighteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth century, the estate became richer and more refined, brides chose real homes belonging to expensive materials, preferred colors are silver and red. Vittoria I of England is before 1840, she wore a white dress instead of a silver one.

Prior to Queen Victoria, women could choose any color for the wedding dress, less black and red colors associated with mourning and prostitution. After that, however, more women among the aristocratic families began wearing white wedding dresses, and it seems that this tendency was stronger set somewhere in the twentieth century when they began to appear as a shop selling white wedding dresses.

Whatever the origin or legend of fashion, today’s brides prefer a white dress, color (or non-color), a symbol of purity, innocence, and virginity.

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