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On what occasions can a wedding dress be worn

Wedding veil in the wedding ceremony and wedding banquet to wear.

Wedding veil (weddingveil), is a western-style dress worn by the bride during the wedding ceremony and wedding banquet. Wedding veil can refer to the dress accessories worn on the body, but it can also include the veil and the bouquet part.

The color and style of the wedding veil depends on a variety of factors, including culture, religion, and fashion trends. Wedding dresses come from the West and are different from the traditional Chinese dresses, which are mainly red in color.

The origins of the wedding dress are as follows: one theory is that from 1700 BC to 1550 BC, the ancient Greek Minoan dynasty of noble women wore a bare chest, sleeves to the elbow, chest, waist area by the cord tied below the chest, the lower part of the bell-shaped dress, the overall tight-fitting clothing.

Because some countries in ancient Europe is the unity of church and state, people must go to the church to get married to accept the priest or pastor's prayers and blessings, so that can be considered a formal legal marriage, so the bride wears a white ceremonial dress to God to show sincerity and purity. Before the 19th century in the West, there was no uniform color specification for the bridal gowns worn by young girls when they got married.

Until around 1820, white gradually became the wedding dress color widely used. This is because Britain's Queen Victoria wore a white elegant wedding dress on the wedding. Since then, the white wedding dress has become a formal wedding dress.

Another way of putting it is that the Irish royal family of 16th-century Europe loved to hunt, and in a summer afternoon, the royals with shotguns, riding horses and packs of rabbit hounds hunting in the town of northern Ireland, and happened to meet in the river washing Miss Rose (Rose. Miss), then Earl of Richmond fell in love at first sight, and was y attracted by Miss Rose's innocence and elegant temperament.

At the same time, Miss Rose also left a deep love for the handsome Earl Richard. Hunting back to the court of the count sleepless nights, and in the then feudal society can not accept the situation, summoned up the courage to put forward the "door is not right, the household is not right" to the countryside born Rose proposed to marry the idea, the royal family was in an uproar, and resolutely defending the royal lineage and opposition.

Because of the Earl's insistence, in order to make the Earl dead, the royal family put forward a request at the time almost impossible to achieve, hope that Miss Rose can sew a white gown in one night (at that time there is no customary wearing a white dress for marriage), and the requirements of the length of conformity, from the front of the wedding platform of the Church of the Royal Household of Ireland to the front door of the Church of the White Robe.

The request was made, and Earl Richard thought that the desired marriage had almost become disillusioned. But at that time Miss Rose is not think, actually and the residents of the whole town stay up all night, *** with the cooperation, in the morning before sewing out a delicate and extremely simple design lines and no loss of royal splendor 16 meters of white robes.

When this white gown was sent to the Irish royal family on the following day, members of the royal family was undoubtedly not y touched by the design concept of the very high emotions, in the Irish king and queen of the promise and the completion of the fairy tale-like holy wedding. This is the origin of the world's first wedding dress.

Social Impact

In ancient China, there is a traditional custom: the wedding dress is the most important garment in a girl's life, mostly made by the girl herself from a young age, until the marriage is completed. New people often like to wear red dresses. It is because of this traditional thinking, the western-style white wedding dress just spread into China, and was not accepted, but instead the wedding photos but at that time caused quite a stir.

And, the Chinese people married after the red, the newcomer is absolutely not allowed to wear white, with the introduction of Western culture in the early 20's, the wedding dress debuted in China, returned from overseas study Mr. Miss, many people have been converted to Christianity.

They usually choose to hold the wedding in the church, the groom bow tie, wearing a suit and dress, the bride wearing a wedding dress, white gloves, holding red roses, instead of a sedan chair is a car covered with flowers, the newcomers in the surroundings of friends, stepped into the solemn church, the newcomers to the exchange of the ring, the bridegroom will be in the eyes of all the groom will be the bride into the car, to go to spend their honeymoon of their newlyweds.

The 30's western-style clothing is very popular in Shanghai and other big cities began to wear white wedding dresses, usually the bride wears a white wedding dress, white veil, holding flowers, up to five or six meters long, the groom wears a black tuxedo, holding a black high hat, a white stiff-necked shirt, a black bow tie, white gloves, and there are also men and women of the two bridesmen and groomsmen, but also wearing a big tuxedo and white dresses to accompany a new couple.

After the wedding was held in the church with both parents, witnesses and other wedding photo shoot, this is the beginning of the wedding photos, similar to such wedding photos have continued to the 1950s ...... Now in China, almost all wedding photos of the bride in white wedding dress, choose a suitable set of wedding dress for their own wedding dresses became the The second most important decision for every bride.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Wedding Dresses