Historical Wedding Dresses

7102019 Throughout history famed wedding dresses have often reflected the times from Queen Elizabeths post-war wedding gown made using fabric purchased with ration cards to the likes of Yoko Ono embracing the Swinging Sixites to Bianca Jagger being the epitome of 70s style marrying Mick Jagger in a white blazer suit and of course Diana Princess of Waless extravagant 80s confection complete with 25-foot train still the longest in royal wedding history.

Historical wedding dresses. Homespun linen lining of this gown was taken and scraped into lint and used for dressing wounds of the American Revolutionary War soldiers in the year 1776. To the right is a French evening dress from 1804-05 d of fine white cotton embroidered in satin stitch and knots that could well have doubled as a wedding gown. Low square neckline and elbow-length sleeves.

5132020 The wedding of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert on 10 February 1840 is credited with popularising one key matrimonial trend the white wedding dress. In fact many brides wore black during this time. The glamorous star married Prince Rainier in a lace wedding dress by MGM costume designer Helen Rose in 1956 which would eventually inspire.

The history wedding dresses continued to be different. 5292020 Tiaras ball gowns fabulous getaway cars and professional portraiture became a trendy part of wedding dress history once regular Americans got inside looks at celebrity weddings like Audrey Hepburns to Mel Ferrer in 1954 pictured here. The popular styles they inspired had sweetheart necklines small waists and full layered skirts.

9272017 The trend caught on and Queen Victorias own 1840s-style wedding dressthe slim waist the lace the full nineteenth-century skirt over petticoats and crinolinesis still considered the most recognizable wedding silhouette. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert on their wedding day. 922020 In the 1950s wedding dresses became a high fashion affair and most brides wanted to dress just like the silver screen stars.

In 1840 Queen Victoria initiated the trend toward white wedding gowns. Heres a collection of 11 beautiful wedding dresses from the 1930s. 812013 For most of history brides rarely purchased a dress specifically for their wedding day.

Vanity Fair reported that she settled on white because it was the best color to show off her lace detailing. The brides usually wore in the manner their social status allowed. For her wedding with Albert of Saxe-Coburg she wanted her dress made with the finest lace which at that time was only available in white.