Doesn’t matter if you literally never wear white in your normal,
everyday life. Doesn’t matter if you know, deep in your heart, that you
are embarrassingly clumsy and WILL drop something on all that pristine
white satin.
Wedding dresses are white, and only ‘unconventional’ brides wear another colour.
Which is a silly social convention to uphold so strictly, really.
Because wedding dresses being white is actually a fairly recent fashion
choice.
See, just over 176 years ago red was the most popular colour for
wedding gowns – probably because of all its ‘roses are red’ romantic
connotations.
White dresses were worn occasionally, but its associations with mourning prevented it from being the preferred wedding option.
Even when Mary Queen of Scots picked a white dress, she was widely
slammed for being inappropriate – simply for choosing a white gown. When
her husband died a few years later, she was accused of cursing him by
wearing mourning clothes to the wedding. Oh dear.
It wasn’t until Queen Victoria decided to f*** the trends and wear a
white gown that the style became a mainstay of the whole wedding thing.
On February 10, 1840, Victoria wore a lacy white gown with an
orange blossom wreath for her wedding to Albert – despite members of the
court questioning her colour choice.
The dress turned out to be a massive hit, and soon other women were choosing Victoria-inspired dresses for their big day.
Just a few years later, popular women’s magazine the Godey’s Lady
Book proclaimed that ‘custom has decided, from the earliest ages, that
white is the most fitting hue, whatever may be the material.
It is an emblem of the purity and innocence of girlhood, and the unsullied heart she now yields to the chosen one.’
And THAT’S where the belief that we’ve always worn white on weddings to symbolise purity comes from.
Following that, people in the Western fully believed that white was
the only possible option for wedding gowns. Bustle notes that there was
even a catchy poem written at the time, basically calling red wedding
dresses – formerly the hot trend – a garbage choice:
So, white wedding dresses: only a thing because of Queen Victoria and magazines. Wear whatever colour you like, brides-to-be.
Source: Metro
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