Detail: Chinese Wedding Dress

Link ID	1647
Title	Chinese Wedding Dress
Description	One of the most prominent features of a Chinese wedding is the wedding dress, or should we say dresses -- with a plural. Since red is the color of luck in Chinese culture, the bride would normally wear an all red dress
Category	Bridal Gown
Date	20-Jun-2005
Contact Name	bellaonline.com
Url	Chinese Wedding Dress
Additional information	Although Chinese wedding customs vary from providence to providence, and from region to region, there are some basic and common themes in the traditional Chinese wedding. Both the bride and groom are usually dressed in red, as red is the color of c
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Review by (date: 21-Jun-2005)
Subject: Dress
Comment: I'm wearing a deep purple velvet gown in a medieval-type style. That's about as "not done" as anything I can think of. :-)
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Review by (date: 21-Jun-2005)
Subject: white and red
Comment: I believe the original reason for a white dress was that it was very expensive (and thus treasured) to wear truly white clothes in previous centuries - it was much easier to dye cloth than it was to bleach it white.
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Review by (date: 21-Jun-2005)
Subject: A little more history
Comment: The Chinese do indeed wear red. In Medieval England, the bride wore her best dress (and it could be any color) and was married on Sunday. In the Victorian era, it became fashionable to wear white because only the very richest could afford to wear (and dirty) a white dress once. Only in Modern times has the white dress come to symbolise purity...a somewhat misguided concept (IMHO) considering that there are very few people that actually look good in pure white
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