In medieval
times, the color of clothes and types of material used as a marker of social
status. Only the royalty and nobility, which use materials silk, satin, velvet,
lace, and use the colors of "grandeur", such as gold, purple and
blue. This is because at that time, the thread weaving techniques, extraction
technique and fabric dye fabric dyeing process is done manually and therefore
the materials used were quite difficult to obtain so beautiful fabrics can not
be mass produced. No doubt at that time, only aristocratic girls who will be
celebrating their wedding which can wear colorful clothes and jewelry
"grandeur" was. The girls from lower social caste can only try to
imitate the dress shape and appearance of the nobility who became a trendsetter
era. Rarely they can use a wedding dress with color "grandeur" is
because it is expensive.
White still not a color choice for wedding gowns until 1840, where Queen
Victoria wore a white wedding gown when she married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg.
His status as a symbol of the royal family famous noble lady, making fancy
white dress trimmed with Honiton Lace full lace worn by Queen Victoria became
the next trendsetter. Boom Queen Victoria's wedding dress style that has
characteristics that make up ballgown dress, white color sometimes broken
white, waist and hips and accentuate the bride was led to rising demand for
materials fancy white dress. This resulted in material makers and lace wedding
dress overwhelmed produce it, because at that time the white lace is still made
by hand. Not to mention the white dress, including difficult to treat because
the dirt will be evident there. Finally, some brides of lower social class back
wearing a wedding dress with colors other than white, except for black
(mourning colors) and bright red (the color at the time, is identical to the
brothel house).
Since the Victorian era
that the tradition
of wearing a white wedding dress which symbolizes chastity was a style
that is always copied by women. Even then not
only plain white
are selected, but
can also be shades of white
with shades like creme,
champagne, broken-white,
off white and ivory.
Even now the so-called
era of globalization, remain stable among white
women as the main
color of your wedding dress choice. White seems to
be the color of privilege and have the stamp
"For Bride-Only"
that accompanies it to be the color of the wedding
dress the bride who wants to look different and elegant on her wedding day. In fact not only modern Western-style
wedding dresses are wearing white as an "official
color": in some countries, such as
the wedding dress custom shades kebaya, baju
kurung, cheongsam kimono and also helped adopt
white. An old
English rhyme following tries to portray the "fate"
brought about by the color of your
wedding dress:
"Married in white, you
will have chosen all
right. Married in gray, you will go
far away. Married in black, you will wish yourself
back. Married in
red, you'll wish
yourself dead. Married
in blue, you
will always be true. Married in pearl,
you'll live in
a whirl. Married
in green, ashamed to be seen. Married in
yellow, ashamed of
the fellow. Married in brown, you'll live
out of town.
Married in pink,
your spirits will
sink. "