As always, h-costume continues to add punctuation that is not in th original.
Sigh!
-----Original Message-----
From: "R Lloyd Mitchell" <[email protected]>
Sent 5/10/2011 8:34:47 PM
To: "Historical Costume" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [h-cost] 1st White Wedding Dress Trend: Anne of Brittany orQueen
VictoriaIf Anne?of Britanny chose White for her wedding, I have seen no further
historical referrences about other women choosing the color for their
ceremony?...hence, no vogue?of white having any cache for a proper wedding
ceremony. At that date (Anne's) weddings were probably no so
public...except for royalty. What ever color or fabric, it would have had
cost and politics pointing the way toward correctness.
By the time of Victoria there were additional psychological and moral,
symbolic reasons behind Her choices to have a white wedding.??This choice
was the veiled motivation for the idea of a white wedding for many decades
hence.?Royal brides for a long time before V. chose (or were garbed) in
fabled fabrics of gold or silver as a declaration of wealth and power. Her
choice put the emphasis on virginity and respectabilty...something that
women of almost any class standard could hope to emmulate. White, and Lace
were? more in the province of people of means, but the principle could be
shared.
The white dress, however harkens back to a 'shift' that was owned by most
women-high or low, as the transition garment between her house and her
husband's home...
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