Wedding Traditions from Victoria to Diana
An exhibit from Ohio State University's Historic Costume and Textiles Collection centers on the wedding dress. The exhibit is divided into seven sections, covering what women (and men) wore beginning with the Early Victorian period and ending with the late 1990s. "Queen Victoria's marriage in February 1840 is often cited as the marker which began our white wedding dress tradition. Her choice of a plain white satin dress and orange blossom wreath headdress with lace veil was shockingly plain by royal standards and a significant departure from the royal tradition of a dress embroidered with silver and encrusted with jewels, a jeweled crown, and velvet robes trimmed with fur."
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