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“If royal marriages were arranged to create dynastic alliances, wedding clothes reinforced those alliances; appearance was everything. In some cases, brides had to undress and put on new clothes at the border as they entered their new country, symbolically shedding their foreign identities.”
— Jun 25, 2023 06:44PM
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“The dress—stiffened with buckram at the hem and a cagelike boned bustle—was so rigid that it could stand up by itself.”
reflects the rigid roles and traditions of the time
— Jun 25, 2023 06:46PM
reflects the rigid roles and traditions of the time
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" In the Middle Ages, guests took home pieces of the wedding gown for luck”
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— Jun 25, 2023 06:42PM
Excerpt From
The Way We Wed
Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell
https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/M...
This material may be protected by copyright.