When did white become a wedding dress for western women?

White first appeared in 1406, and 1840 became a custom. /kloc-in the middle of 0/9th century, 1840, after Queen Victoria married Prince Albert, this color became a custom. Before that, although brides may wear white dresses, if they can afford it.

However, the rich and members of the royal family may also wear gold and blue dresses. The clothes of the poor or non-members of the royal family may have various colors. In western culture, the earliest incident about white wedding dress happened in 1406, when Princess Filipa of England married King Eric of Scandinavia. She is wearing a white coat with mink and squirrel skin on the edge.

1558, Queen Mary of Scotland wore a white dress when she married the future king of France. Although at that time, for the queen of France, white was a mourning color. In the next few centuries, white is still very popular.

But for the royal wedding, white is definitely not a necessary color (18 16, Princess Charlotte wore a silver high-waisted skirt when she married Prince Leopold of Saxony-Coburg-Suffield). White does not symbolize chastity and purity, and it is too expensive to keep clean, so white symbolizes the status and wealth of the wearer.

The history of wedding dresses:

1. China culture may be the first culture where brides need to wear clothes of a certain color. In the Zhou Dynasty three thousand years ago, both the bride and groom had to wear black dresses and white underwear with red edges. Wearing a certain color and style of clothes is not a unique rule at the wedding.

The rulers of the Zhou dynasty made strict laws on clothing, which stipulated who could wear what clothes in what place and when according to occupation, social status, gender and occasion. In 200 BC, at the beginning of Han Dynasty, these regulations were still valid. The bride and groom are still wearing black dresses.

The dress code in the Han Dynasty was not so strict, but it still stipulated to wear certain colors at certain times of the year: green in spring, red in summer, yellow in autumn and black in winter.

During the reign of the Tang Dynasty in the seventh century, the dress code was further relaxed. It has become a fashion for brides to wear green dresses at weddings-perhaps because in the previous Han Dynasty, green dresses were needed in spring-while grooms usually wear red dresses.

A more relaxed social order has led to a more diversified trend. Women can wear short skirts or even traditional men's wear in daily life. During the Tang Dynasty, many immigrants and cultural influences flowed from China to Japan and the Korean Peninsula. Even today, we can still see that some traditional Japanese and Korean bridal gowns were influenced by the Tang Dynasty in color and style.

In Japan, the bride will wear several sets of dresses in different colors on the wedding day. Japanese Shinto brides will wear white dresses. Since14th century, the silk wedding dresses in North Korea are red, green and yellow. Like China in the Zhou Dynasty and Han Dynasty, Korean traditional clothing also has strict color distinction.

During the Korean dynasty, children and unmarried adults needed to wear bright clothes, and after marriage, both men and women had to wear white or other medium-colored clothes until they were old. Old people can only wear white as a mourning color. After the death of the king or his family, everyone must wear white clothes for three years.

Traditional Korean bridal gowns also contain a common theme of bridal gowns all over the world, that is, imitating royal gowns. This is why western brides also wear white clothes, and why white western wedding dresses are spread to weddings all over the world.