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.
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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
§ 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.
Kat - Mar 13, 2005 6:58:03 pm PST #6850 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
ita, we found benches at cost plus for you that would work perfectly with your table.
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§ ita § - Mar 13, 2005 6:59:11 pm PST #6851 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I thought that the white symbolized "debt free"
Whose debt to whom?
I'm confused as to why wedding dresses are being discussed in the past tense.
It's the history of wedding dresses, I'm discussing, not so much their current usage/symbology.
you could afford to have a white dress that you woudn't get much subsequent use out of
Was white not a worn colour, before it became traditional wedding wear? I mean, why not a yellow dress you wouldn't get much use out of? I thought that white formal these days was too tied to the wedding tradition -- but before it, what was the drawback?
JenP - Mar 13, 2005 7:00:06 pm PST #6852 of 10002
My mother had her wedding dress made into a ball gown (not high society, but from an era where women of, uh, regular society wore long dresses much more often thant they seem to these days). And then, apparently, she disposed of it. Such sentiment. Well, her sentiment was all tied up with her husband and not the dress, I suppose. Which is nice and all, but I like the look of the dress from the pictures, and it'd be nice to have it.
There was a point somewhere in there. Maybe.
Love the dress in that link.