Culture · 6 pages · 12 min
Why white is not always a wedding
White bridal dress is a historical fashion, not a meaning stored inside the color.
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From the opening
White is not always a wedding because the link between white cloth and bridal dress was built in a particular history and then sold as if it were the nature of the color. Other times and places have used white for mourning, for ordinary dress, or for nothing ceremonial at all. The opening covers victoria's 1840 gown and after, white has also meant mourning, and red bridal dress is a parallel.
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Inside
- Victoria's 1840 gown and after
- White has also meant mourning
- Red bridal dress is a parallel
- The catalog is not the spectrum
- Where the idea stops applying
- A distinction worth keeping
Sources
- Queen Victoria's white wedding dress in 1840
- White mourning dress in East Asian custom