How times have changed!
In 1962 my wedding dress had a long sleeved very expensive lace top, cut
straight across the throat with a V-shaped back to just below the shoulder
blades. The skirt was layers of frothy tulle with lace motifs scattered over
it and frills of lace cascading from a bow at the back waist to give
interest to the back, which is what most people see.
Prior to the wedding the vicar gave the potential brides a lecture on how
they should dress and said he would turn away any bride where he thought the
dress unsuitable: There was to be no strapless tops (in case they fell
down!), no low-cut fronts (he had no intention of looking down anyone's
cleavage), a church was no place for bare shoulders and certainly no place
for any large areas of bare flesh - this was a House of God and he expected
us to treat it as such.
I was too frightened to do otherwise, but I was happy with my dress and did
have the best lace (machine-made) I could afford.
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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