The wedding dress has a rich, long history. Over time, it changed, improved, overgrown with new signs, traditions, legends. Nowadays no wedding is complete without a bride's dress. This is what all the girls dream about from the earliest years and what they first of all think about after receiving the offer of the hand and heart from the loved one. Therefore, you will undoubtedly be interested to learn a few interesting facts about this solemn bride gown.
Interesting facts about wedding dresses
- Colored wedding dresses , flooded podiums on fashion shows of modern times - this is not a new and certainly not an unconventional idea. So, in Russia traditional for the bride was considered a red dress, or rather, a people's dress. And in Europe, traditional clothes were pink and blue.
- The first woman in Europe, who wore a snow-white dress on her own wedding, was Queen Margo. On August 18, 1572, she appeared before the amazed guests in a white outfit, and it was from that time that the girls who got married for the first time dressed in a white garment (the ladies of the wedding dressed again in purple). Fashion for white wedding dresses lasted until the 18th century, after which the popularity again acquired colored dresses. And returned this custom to Queen Victoria, who married on February 10, 1840 in a lush white satin dress, decorated with lace and orange tree flowers.
- The most expensive wedding dress in the world was sewn in February 2006 by designers Renee Strauss and jeweler Martin Katz. The skirt and bodice are embroidered with genuine diamonds. The cost of this outfit is 12 million dollars! But for 7 years he still did not find a buyer.
- The longest outfit was the dress of the bride from China - Lil Rong. Its train was 2162 meters. And only recently this record has beaten the dress sewn in the Romanian capital. The length of the train of this outfit was as much as 3 kilometers! He sewed a dozen seamstresses for 100 days. The attire was shown to the general public by Emma Dumitrescu model, having risen in it in the sky in a balloon. The train of the dress is made of lace and silk, and the model assures that in it she felt like a real queen. The world record was recorded by representatives of the Guinness Book of Records.
- The most famous wedding dress belonged to the famous Grace Kelly. She married Prince Rainier in 1956 in a dazzling outfit of silk taffeta with lace. The veil, manufactured to the side, was trimmed with 1000 pearls. The wedding dress was created by Helen Rose - designer-costume of the film studio "Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer". And after half a century this dress is for brides and couture an example of elegance, elegance, impeccable taste and style! By the way, Catherine Middleton married Prince William in a similar wedding dress.
- Another very famous wedding dress - the fairytale wedding dress of Princess Diana was sewn from 40 meters silk of ivory color, vintage lace with gold threads and decorated with rhinestones and pearls. A lot of replicas of this outfit were created, which were sold and sold for fabulous sums.
- The most unusual wedding dress of the past became an exhibit of the De Young museum in San Francisco. It was created by Yves Saint Laurent himself and is a handmade crocheted cocoon. Despite the delights of modern designers of wedding fashion, it continues to shock and shock the audience with its originality. The designer embodied in it a metaphorical image of what the lady of the 60s of the last century meant for marriage.
- The first short wedding dress in the world was presented to the public by the legendary Coco Chanel. It was a revolution in the wedding fashion - it was considered indecent before her to strip the legs of a married woman. And Coco Chanel always defended the idea that a truly elegant dress should not impede movement. Therefore, she sewed an outfit just a little lower than the knee. Now this idea - at the peak of popularity and still remains one of the most important trends of modern wedding fashion.
- To be sparkling in the literal sense of the word allowed an original and shocking wedding dress, decorated with real flashlights. It allows the bride to shine and not stay in the shadows, even in complete darkness. Such a unique outfit was developed by Philips. It consists of two layers and is able to analyze the temperature of the body, the amount of sweat, draw conclusions about the emotions of the girl wearing it, and, depending on this, the lanterns on it shine in different colors.
- The most delicious wedding dress was created by the confectioner Donna Millington-Day. In fact, it is a real-life cake dress - 1.8 m. When it was created, 22 kg of sugar was used, and it was baked for a week.
