The origin of the wedding dress

In the sixteenth century, the Irish royal family in Europe loved to hunt, and in the middle of a summer afternoon, the royals brought their shotguns, rode their horses and packs of rabbit hounds to hunt in a small town in the north of Ireland.

Accidentally encountered in the river washing Miss Rose, then Earl Richard fell in love at first sight, was Miss Rose's pure love and elegant temperament y attracted, at the same time, Miss Rose is also on the handsome Earl Richard left a deep sense of adoration.

Because of the earl's insistence, in order to let the earl dead heart, the royal family put forward a then almost impossible to realize the request, hope that Miss Rose can be sewn in one night a white holy robe (at that time there is no custom of wearing a white wedding dress), and the requirement is the length of the length to meet, from the front of the witnessing platform of the Royal Commissioners' Chapel of Ireland to the front door of the church of the white gown.

The request was made, Earl Richard thought that the desired marriage has almost become disillusioned ..... But at that time Miss Rose was not thought, actually and the whole town residents stayed up all night, *** with the cooperation.

Before dawn sewed a delicate and design lines extremely simple and no loss of royal splendor 16 meters of white robes, when this white robes in the next day sent to the Irish royal family.

Royal members of the undoubtedly not y touched by the design concept and was extremely high emotion impressed, in the Irish King and Queen's promise and completed the fairy tale-like holy wedding. This was the origin of the world's first wedding dress.

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The trend

Early in the twentieth century, wedding dresses began to be shorter, and also featured a ball gown. become shorter and also functioned as a ball gown, which could make the bride unique at the wedding ball. In the 1930s, wedding dresses became more tightly fitted, making brides more attractive.

70s wedding dresses, presenting a strong nostalgic mood, the style and the rise of long hem, pleated, lace layers, very decorative, soft flesh-colored fabrics.

In the 90s, wedding dress design breaks the traditional big swing skirt design, and draws on the design characteristics of popular fashion. The top part of the naked majority; skirt part of the cheongsam style, ultra-short skirt type, there is a practical combination of wedding dresses, the bride to the church during the day or at night to invite guests and friends can be combined on their own.

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