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Wedding dresses and bridal gowns have long been traditionally in white. The color signifies merit and raises deep-seated tradition. The concept of white wedding gowns began in Britain, a country rife with tradition and legend. It comes as no surprise that the traditional white bridal dress began there with the English Monarchy.
When Queen Victoria married Albert in 1840, she wore a dazzling white bridal gown that was to be emulated by lots of women after that. The tradition was not born immediately after, although white became a popular choice and was associated with wealth more than virtue. Weaving white was a sign that you are able to afford a flamboyant dress you would not even wear again because of its color. Back in those times, whites were not as easy to launder and store as they are nowdays.
The vain and the wealthy insisted on following the styles of the wealth monarch and white became to standard bridal color after some time. Even during the Great Depression that followed the First World War, the women modified their wedding dresses into shorter versions, but stuck to white as the traditional color for the bride. Some were married wearing white informal wedding dresses that would later be dyed with a solid color so they could be worn again as everyday dresses.
The tradition of white wedding dresses became signed and sealed only in the 1950s when Hollywood stars, members of royalty and high society graced various forms of media with their stunning white gowns. The color gained popularity among women across the world that patterned their bridal outfits from those celebrity celebrations.
Nowadays, brides have incorporated some color into the modern bridal gown. The more conservative ones would only go as far as an ivory gown, but the more daring fashion patrons would step into wedding dresses in deep velvet red or even black! But the majority still opt for the conventional white or a pale ecru to keep with tradition and for the virtues the color has long represented.
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Source by Andrea Dilea
