A white wedding dress signifies that it is the bride's first marriage.
Ha ha. White symbolizes virginity.
I read that it was a display of wealth, as you'd have to be pretty well off to afford a dress you could only wear a few times.
And almost sixty-five percent of that was actual compliment. Is that a personal best?
Xander ,'End of Days'
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Trudy Booth - Mar 13, 2005 6:35:36 pm PST #6840 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
§ ita § - Mar 13, 2005 6:38:22 pm PST #6841 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Sail, can you whitefont that? It's technically current season, and verboten in blackfont here.
§ ita § - Mar 13, 2005 6:38:57 pm PST #6842 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
you'd have to be pretty well off to afford a dress you could only wear a few times
A few times? I thought it just the once...
Trudy Booth - Mar 13, 2005 6:42:19 pm PST #6843 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
A few times? I thought it just the once...
Back in the day, you were married in your best dress. Basically disposable clothing it pretty recent.
§ ita § - Mar 13, 2005 6:46:00 pm PST #6844 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
No, I meant if you buy a wedding dress, you only wear it the once.
Unless your best dress was also white -- otherwise I don't see the connection between white wedding dresses and a dress you only wear a few times.
Vortex - Mar 13, 2005 6:47:58 pm PST #6845 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
In high society, a woman would often wear her wedding dress out as a formal dress at some point in her first year of marriage. and I thought that the white symbolized "debt free"
Trudy Booth - Mar 13, 2005 6:49:14 pm PST #6846 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
People used to wear their best dress, generally a brand new one. They'd wear it again after the wedding.
If you were really loaded, you could afford to have a white dress that you woudn't get much subsequent use out of. It was a display of wealth.
Scrappy - Mar 13, 2005 6:50:41 pm PST #6847 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I guess we owe white to Victoria.
Queen Victoria put the wheels in motion by marrying in white. Though brides continued to wed in gowns of different colors, white was now set as the color of choice for weddings and has continued ever since. In Godey’s Lady’s Book, 1849, this statement was printed: “ Custom has decided, from the earliest ages, that white is the most fitting hue, whatever may be the material. It is an emblem of the purity and innocence of girlhood, and the unsullied heart she now yields to the chosen one.”
P.M. Marc - Mar 13, 2005 6:51:08 pm PST #6848 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Burrell - Mar 13, 2005 6:56:35 pm PST #6849 of 10002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I'm confused as to why wedding dresses are being discussed in the past tense. Don't people still wear them? Or did I make a big fashion faux pas?
FTR, several of my friends have worn their dresses/pants suits subsequently.