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What's another name for a wedding dress?

Don't! Wedding dress is a western-style dress worn by the bride at weddings and wedding banquets. A wedding dress can refer to accessories worn on the body, as well as veils and bouquets. The color and style of a wedding dress depend on various factors, including culture, religion and fashion trends. The wedding dress comes from the west, which is different from the traditional dress with red as the main color in China. Since the West entered China, it has been called wedding dress only!

The first wedding dress in the world

1840, Queen Victoria of England (18 19- 190)

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1) When she got married, she wore a white dress made of beautiful China brocade, with a tail of 18 feet and a white veil. The pure white from head to toe surprised the audience. Before Queen Victoria's wedding, the wedding dresses of members of the British royal family were all traditional dresses, wearing jewelry crowns, evening dresses inlaid with jewelry and silver ornaments, and fur coats. Her amazing move, in addition to being amazing, quickly became a fashion and spread widely. It has gradually become a traditional custom for brides to wear white wedding dresses at western weddings. The white wedding dress represents inner purity and innocence, and later it gradually evolved into a symbol of virginity.

In the1920s after World War I, the change of women's social status also greatly changed the style of wedding dresses, and short skirt wedding dresses gradually appeared.

1940s, because of World War II, the bride's wedding dress became simple and simple, and many mothers also took their wedding dress as a family heirloom and passed it on to their daughters as a dowry.