Wedding Dresses

Wedding Dresses

Fashions changed from gowns of color to ones of white, or a difference of white, but since it wasn’t a practical shade for most purposes, blue became another favorite, as did pink. In the 1800′s, gray became a color for wedding gowns for brides of lower classes because the dress became re-used as the bride’s Sunday best.

A dress that would be used for regular occasions after the wedding, many brides would decorate the dress for the special day with temporary decorations. The “traditional” wedding dress as known today didn’t appear until the 1800′s. By 1800, machine made fabrics and inexpensive Muslins made the white dress with a veil the existing fashion. By the nineteenth century, a bride wearing her white dress after the wedding was accepted. Re-trimming the dress made it appropriate for many different functions.
As times passed, women’s fashions changed. Hems rose and fell, but the long dress, with or without a train, remained the length preferred by brides. Sleeve lengths and neck styles changed with the current fashions, but mainly remained modest. Full sleeves, tight sleeves, sleeveless styles came and went and came again. Simple designs to elaborate have been found over the years.

Wedding Dresses

Wedding Dresses

Wedding Dresses