Wedding Dress

Wedding Dress - elegant clothes, which is usually worn on the wedding ceremony or during the wedding ceremony the bride. A classic wedding dress is traditionally white, but colors dress is practically unlimited. Not only diverse palette of wedding dresses, but also style solutions, used for sewing dress.

Western culture
Wedding - a union between two people, families or countries. Among the nobility and upper classes in the Middle Ages agreed on a wedding, guided by considerations of politics, social status, wealth, than love. Bridesmaid dress to represent their families in the best possible light during the wedding ceremony. Bridesmaid dresses from rich families were made from exclusive fabrics, trim fur. For centuries, bridesmaid dresses should have been consistent with their social status and fashion. Number of meters of fabric spent on making the wedding dress reflects the social status of the bride and pointed to the degree of wealth of the family. Bridal dresses were made of different colors, white was not popular. In Scandinavia, dominated by blue laws, dress for the bride sewed in black. A traditional white wedding dress, used as formal attire, designed exclusively for the combination of marriage or wedding, appeared in the XIX century, and it was February 10, 1840, when Queen Victoria wore a white dress for the first time at the wedding ceremony with the Duke Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha . Official photo of the wedding robes of royalty was published and was very popular. Other brides choose white for their dresses, imitating the Queen, this was the highest expression of fashion, style, glamor and the present. Brides from poor families to the ceremony in the church on the wedding day put on their best dresses.

Eastern culture
Vietnamese wedding dress
The traditional color for wedding dresses in China, India (wedding sari) and Vietnam (in the traditional form of Ao Zai) is red. It is believed that this color brings good luck and prosperity. Modern Chinese brides pay tribute to Western fashion, not only the styles and fashions, and choose any color for your wedding dress, not just red. Red sari - traditional dress for brides in Indian culture. Shealy sari usually made ​​of silk. Over time, colors and fabric choices for Indian brides expanded. Today, wedding saris sewn from fabrics like crepe, georgette, satin. Color modern wedding sari is not just red, but blue, pink, orange, brown, yellow. A Japanese wedding, the bride during the ceremony can change several times a dress, it may be somewhat different kimono or kimono dress made on the Western model.

Indian culture
Apache Indian Wedding Dress
The native peoples of North and South America also have different traditions associated with the wedding. Sewed clothes for the bride groom, his family and other men who want to take part. Wedding dress consisted of a wide belt, two white wedding robe with red stripes at the top and bottom, white buckskin leggings and moccasins, headbands and hair reed mats. All this is later used as a burial shroud. In the Delaware Indian tribe bride's costume consisted of a skirt made of buckskin, necklaces, the body was naked from the waist up. Winter suit complemented deer leggings, moccasins and clothing feather turkey. The bride's face paint the red, white, or yellow clay. The tribes of Northern California (including the Klamath, Modoc and the Yurok) had its own color for wedding dresses white in the east, blue for the south, yellow (orange) to the west, in the north of the black. Bride and groom wearing wedding jewelry of silver and turquoise, it was thought that they need to protect them from evil spirits, hunger, poverty and misery.

Styles of wedding dresses
For the wedding dress is characterized by two main styles inherent clothes in general - classical and romantic.
The characteristic features of the romantic style - plenty of jewelry, including draping, lace, flowers, etc. As a rule, wedding dresses are sewn in the romantic style of the expensive, colorful fabrics complex textures. Romantic style is also characterized by a deep neckline and form-fitting fashions. The characteristic features of the classical style - severe cuts, lack of extra decorations and brightly colored fabrics. Color wedding gowns - white.