Trivia bit for the day

[missroserose]

The origin of the white wedding gown, no matter what you may have heard, had absolutely nothing to do with virginity, purity, or anything else along those lines (though obviously it picked up those associations later). The white wedding dress, an affectation of middle and upper class Victorian English families, was simply a display of wealth - white was an utterly impractical color (given how any kind of stain or soil shows up on it) and therefore the ability to buy such fabric and have a totally impractical dress made that the bride would wear exactly once was a rather extreme form of conspicious consumption. Similarly, bell sleeves (although much older than the Victorian period) came into fashion as a way to show off how much fabric one could afford to waste on frills.

That said, I totally want one of these:



Of course, with a gown like that, I'd need someone to come sweep me off my feet so I'd have a chance to actually wear it for its intended purpose...any takers? =D

Comments

[alexmegami]

Can I wear one when I sweep you off your feet? ;)

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

No. But you can wear one when I sweep you off yours. Of course, now I'm going to have to find some sort of demoness/temptress gown to adequately express my role in that little melodrama...=D

[alexmegami]

:D

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

If you were wearing your corset underneath it I'd totally sweep you. (:

[rapier.livejournal.com]

DIBS!

... oh wait. I'm married already. That's a lovely dress.

[jamesd.livejournal.com]

Banana skin? Mace? I suspect you have a candidate in mind for more peaceful ways to get you off your feet, into, and out of, that dress... :)

[errant-variable.livejournal.com]

Hm. As James commented I think you have a candidate for the sweeping already, but if I wind up as best man I reserve the right to raid you from the dressing room to the altar, over the shoulder, in Viking garb.

Damn impractical English notions.

No raping, I promise. Maybe just a little pillaging though, if there's not a good smorgasbord.

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

From dressing room to altar? Wouldn't that be closer to giving me away? Not that I wouldn't rather have you do it than my actual father...

Of course, now this gives me all sorts of ideas for staging an audience-participation theatre-style wedding - "The Viking has stolen the bride! Bring your pitchforks and torches!" =D

[syonyk.livejournal.com]

Nah, you shouldn't tell them about it beforehand. Just hand out pitchforks at the door. "You'll need them."

Honestly, that's a really good idea. Audience participation wedding... that could be a lot of fun. Sadly, I'm far, far away from planning a wedding. :-/

-=Russ=-

[errant-variable.livejournal.com]

Downside to this is that I'd have to find some way to fend off the pitchforks while carrying the bride, and make sure neither her or her gown gets ripped up. Slaughter of the guests is supposedly poor form, as well.

[spank3000.livejournal.com]

that dress is beautiful