2012年7月18日星期三

History of Wedding Dress


As we all know, white wedding dress seems the main melody of the wedding dresses and seems brides will get married in white forever.
However, the wearing all white dress dates back to Victoria times. Before that, brides wore their best dress. The dress color and material varied depending on the woman's social status.
During ancient times, two people become couples in most cases not because two people are get in love, it mostly because unite of economics. And an ancient bride always choose brightly colored wedding garments to symbolize their happiness,it does not means really happy in our time now.
During Medieval times, Wedding usually a union between two families or two businesses or even two countries.Marriage have more meaning of politics than love.A bride had to dress herself in the most favorable light, because she represent a whole family.they wore rich colors, expensive fabrics and often had gems sewn into the garment.
Let's going back to the Victoria time. She wearing white wedding gown in her big day.Here comes the white wedding dress.During that time,white symbolized wealth, and it's blue which means purity.But white haven't generally been chosen as the color of wedding dress, it really a big surprise for people.It wasn't an unpleasant surprise, however, white wedding dress become trend since then.
Today, the white wedding dress still on the top list, but brides today are have more choices: different color, different style. We don't have to follow the trend.The choices varies from an ornate designer dress to a more informal beach wedding dress. The most important is she choose the best for looking best in her big day.