Gorgeous Dresses: So Mid-19Th Century Engravings Are Rarely Worth Much Whatsoever

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I am assuming there’s a big group of people attending from a distance. Can you all go in a share a few rooms? Weddings were usually more about political alliances and transfers of wealth than they’ve been about romance, and so the wedding dress was just another excuse to show the wealth and culture of the brides family.

Textiles were also an important means to display wealth, and the more elaborate the weave of the fabric, and the richer the fibres uses, and the rarer the colour, the better the demonstration of wealth, wealth will be demonstrated with jewelry.

White was a valued colour, before the invention of effective bleaching techniques. Wealthy brides, consequently, often wore almost white to demonstrate their money, not their purity. Anyways, for an interesting visual ur of royal brides from the 19th century to today, check this album. Glosses over centuries of white wedding dresses worn before Queen Victoria’s wedding, and decades of coloured wedding dresses after her wedding, as well as doesn’t explain why Victoria wore an almost white wedding dress, the first answer is more or less accurate.

And therefore the 2nd answer is mostly rubbish and dates to the ‘mid 20th’ century.

Your comment is an interesting example of how tastes and standards of beauty change over time.

That, combined with the stress of her position, and grief from loosing Albert, probably caused her to age quite quickly. However, which will take a bit of a ll on your body, after she was married she had 9 children in quick succession. Queen Victoria was considered very pretty in her youth -her sweet, girlish, round face was very fashionably, and set the standard for early Victorian beauty. Known same goes for the Dutch Queen Sophie or Sophia who wore whitish when she married in June 1839.

It was not merely Queen Victoria and her daughters who sealed the deal -Empress Elizabeth of Austria, who married in 1854, moreover chose almost white and she was very popular at the time.

Most of the dress thence became a vehicle to showcase the lace, and whitish was chosen as the most suitable colour to do this.

To stimulate and support the lace industry, Victoria chose for her wedding dress a large piece of handmade Honiton lace. With that said, rather than purity, in the case of Victoria’s dress, almost white symbolised practicality and patriotism. There also seems to was worldwide, in not really whitish. Whenever saying I wish you could take the white and silver to be married in, inThe Good Natur’d Man, aplay by Oliver Goldsmith,first performed in 1768, a maid laments the lack of an almost white dress at her mistress elopement. Just think of all the commemorative souvenirs that were sold for Wills and Kate.

I know of similar things that were sold for the Princess Royal’s wedding, and for Charlotte’s wedding before Victoria’ It To be honest I don’t know if I have seen examples of souvenirs for VA’s wedding.

It’s still a fabulous thing to have, and there probably aren’t that many still extant, even if it didn’t actually belong to Victoria or a guest.

Was a souvenir that was sold to the populace to commemorate the wedding, or an anniversary, Know what, I suspect the ribbon isn’t actually something from the wedding or the reception. Another question isSo the question is this. It’s sweet ain’t it?

Great read, and a lot I didn’t ‘knowHoniton’ lace industry, the color white showing wealth rather than purity… I had to smile at the lovely photo of V and A staging their wedding day in middle age. Wow, thank you for an interesting and informative post. I know that the high profile marriages of other British royal brides, similar to Victoria’s daughter, Victoria the Princess Royal, and her daughter in law, Alexandra of Denmark, who both followed the traditions set by Victoria, helped to further conventionalise white wedding dresses. Although, it was not until the 1850s and 1860s that the trends that Queen Victoria had initiated became widespread for brides. Other international royal brides, especially ones like the Empress Eugenie, who were marrying into less stable monarchies, followed Victoria’s lead to lend substance and respectability to their marriages.

Victoria certainly ‘re used’ the lace on her dress.

Except the veil.

Despite not for the sentimental reasons of Victoria. Victoria was buried in her wedding veil in Queen Sophie was buried in her wedding dress in 1877. Essentially, dresses were ‘re used’ and a wedding dress was no exception. Have you tried to do and after all it was remade into a riding coat for her brother. Now let me tell you something. Almost white showed wealth as long as an almost white dress was a rather useless object around the house. You should take this seriously. The main concerns in late 1830s England was the effect the Industrial Revolution was having on traditional textile industries. Actually, the invention of machine laces was decimating handmade lace industries across England, and causing widespread poverty and unemployment among the skilled artisans. Wedding Ideas is dedicated to helping you plan your big day the best a lot more!

She was the Queen, the head of state.

She needed to make a statement as the leader of her country, not as an ornament to the throne and the future mother to the heir to the throne. Besides, well, as long as Victoria was not an ordinary bride. She did not enter the marriage as a princess, about to become the Queen Consort, unlike most royal brides. Victoria chose a dress that made a political statement. Rather than her wealth or beauty, a dress that put her duty to her kingdom on display. You see, I was researching the history of Honiton lace when I came across the website.

You have done a pretty good job!

I’m sure our students should remember more of it, if all history was taught this way.

It helps to hear about the people, the place, the economy and identical interesting details to make it come alive. So, what a great story! Thanks. Whenever making it very likely that she had elements of the dress altered as the mood suited her, and to align with changing fashions, a close inspection of all the different depictions of Victoria’s dress reveals numerous minor differences. Generally, victoria was so fond of her wedding attire, or so besotted with Albert and that romance of the wedding, that she posed for numerous paintings in her dress, and she and Prince Albert also dressed up in their wedding attire years later and recreated the wedding in photographs. Comfort is key to a happy, the mother of the bride gonna be wearing the outfit for around 14 hours on the big day, confident mother of the bride. That the most important thing is to feel comfortable. Think about the time of year.

Will it be hot or cold?

The theme of your big day will undoubtedly affect her outfit.

Are you tying the knot in a traditional church, a hotel or in a country barn? Not that I wore almost white to either of my weddings. Only the majority of the attention, I love the whirlwind romance of love. Nevertheless, spend the money, it’s only one day and it’s yours. I have my dress stored away just for me to admire almost any so often and I hope when the day comes, my daughter will venture out and design her own dress with as much enthusiasm and guts as myself and be different. For me, whitish wasn’t a colour I felt comfortable in. Keep your dress, hey, do not alter it for a cocktail dress or give it to a ‘second hand’ shop. Considering the above said. I’m a great believer in one dress for the day and if you look amazing in an almost white dress, wear it. Certainly, lovingly store it away in your closet, I did and I should do it all over again but hubby has said no way!

Treasure it!

My first dress was a soft blush apricot.

I don’t care if So there’s an expense in regards to the dress. What if you go all out and do the job right, you are the main ‘actress in your play’. I had my second wedding dress made in an amazing blood redish slab silk with a tight fitted bodice and a deattachable train but I’m not keen on my daughter wearing it. I love a wedding, even if I’m only going as a guest. Doesn’t it sound familiar? It’s a great idea to try shopping at the more unusual stores to avoid wearing something that another guest for instance, avoid them really costs, if she doesn’t usually wear sky high heels. Mothers of the bride must dress glamorously but within their usual realms of style.

Historical records though, do back up the frequency of gowns of white and silver.

Victoria’s tragic cousin Charlotte was married in a metallic cloth, as were most brides in the English royal family for centuries before her.

Metallic fabric were also very common among the nobility, as nothing says wealth more than cloth woven with gold or silver. Generally, thank you all who had something to do with it. I am the great great granddaughter of Richard Gundry whose firm made Queen Victoria’s wedding shoes as pictured in your article. Notice that lois Mackin, a professional genealogist and a fiend, sent me this link. Also, so it is the first time I have actually seen a picture of the shoes, Know what guys, I knew that Richard Gundry and Sons made shoes at 1 Soho Square. Thus followed the location for a few years in the post books which said shoemaker to the Queen. Seriously. My line comes from one of Richard’s sons, Jonathan, who was still in business with his father in 1842, hereafter Jonathan’s oldest son, Richard Gundry, father of Lewis Henry Gundry, who is father of Lewis Perkins Gundry, my father.

Gorgeous Wedding dress.

Those are some really rare beautiful pictures.

It looks really similar to my Great Grandma’s wedding dress, it was a beautiful dress. Basically, Undoubtedly it’s treasured by our family for centuries. Make sure you leave suggestions about it below. Thanks for sharing this post with us. Therefore, no one except makes wedding dresses like that anymore. On p of this, grey can look stylish if worn with another colour. Now regarding the aforementioned fact… Check what the mother of the groom is wearing and avoid clashing with her! Now please pay attention. So possibly in the millions, particularly for scenes like that, except engravings were done in the thousands.

‘mid19th’ century engravings are rarely worth much whatsoever.

I’d recommend taking it to a local antiques dealer to have it appraised. Between Queen Victoria in 1840, Empress Eugenie in 1853, Princess Victoria in 1857, and Alexandra in 1863 the die was cast. It is the 19th century saw the rise of a large middle class with expendable income for the first time in modern history. Notice, if they could afford it. You can find some more information about this stuff here. White was the thing for brides to wear. So this middle class strove to emulate the customs of the upper class, and had the means to do so. Basically the biggest factor, however, in popularising the whitish dress, was changing socioeconomic circumstances. Have you heard of something like this before? What family more epitomises the enviable aristocracy than the British royal family? Despite the rising middle class, quite a few still couldn’t afford a dress only for their wedding day, and so ‘best’ dresses of any colour were worn by brides until the advent of very cheap and effective bleaches made whitish dresses for any occasion very common at the turn of the century.

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