Just for fun.... 100 years of wedding dresses

monkeysip · November 2015

http://www.mode.com/fashion-style/narratives/100-years-of-wedding-dresses/01200919?story=9793838/100-years-of-fashion

Do you have a favorite? I really love them all except maybe the 1985 and the 2005. I love looking at fashion throughout history.

justsie · November 2015

Every time I see one of these all I can think about is what was the 80's thinking?

I didn't care too much for the 1975 one, but that was really fun to watch!

monkeysip · November 2015

Lol I always think that too! But then again, I feel that even though the dresses were hideous, 80s weddings were probably REALLY fun. I'd love to go to a wedding and dance to all 80s music. But I only lived 3 years in the 80s :P

artbyallie · November 2015

My main issue with this is that they don't really represent the average bride for most of the looks. 1915-1965 at least would have been what only the wealthiest women were wearing. Neither of my grandmothers wore anything like what is now considered a wedding gown. My aunt did do the ridiculous 80s dress for her first wedding (with a white satin cowboy hat!) and a typical strapless in 2010 for her second, but my mom's wedding dress was made by her mom.

And too, trying to distill a decade worth of fashion into one look is always going to be difficult and largely inaccurate. Still, several were pretty anyway, and I really loved the ending with the partner. Not sure if the partner was a woman or trans or what, but the ambiguity itself was a nice inclusive touch.

monkeysip · November 2015

I thought that too while watching that there's no way this really is a reflection of what most women were wearing at those times. Like you said, a lot of women didn't even wear typical white wedding dresses. But it's still fun to me.

WinstonsGirl · November 2015

I think my Granny work a suit type outfit in the 40's. And that 80's dress was nowhere near big enough. I was much less impressed than I thought I would be

ETA - spelling

CMGragain · November 2015

Rats! I can't get it to play. That little blue circle just keeps spinning around!

What was the 80s thinking? Princess Diana in Westminster Cathedral.

MairePoppy · November 2015

Oh no @CMGragain. You should watch the men's fashion through the years. The videos can take some time to load.

My favorite wedding dress from that clip was the 1925's, but I don't believe that it was a typical wedding dress. My grandmother was married in 1925, give or take a few years. Her dress looked more like the silk 1935 dress with the lace jacket.

I have seen family wedding .pics from the 40's and 50's. The 50's lace, ankle length dress looks pretty accurate, a style borrowed from Elizbeth Taylor.

I was a young kid in the 1960's, but we children were invited to many family weddings. 1960's brides loved their bows and daisies. Yep, I remember a few brides wearing the veil in the picture with a huge bow, smack on the top of their heads. Bridemaids wore bows with mini veils to match the color of their dresses.

The 70's dess looks like the dress that my friend wore for her wedding, with the long bishop sleeves and a million buttons down the back. I hate wearing long sleeves so I wore a dress with capelet sleeves.

The few weddings I attended in the 80's the brides were wearing those over the top Princess Di dresses, minus the long, long trains. They must have cost a fortune. I feel sorry for the daughter's of those brides, who have to tell mom that they aren't going to wear those monstrosities.

CMGragain · November 2015

Aha! I got it! My husband gets paranoid and likes to set computer walls too high!

I didn't agree with the 1970s one. It wasn't really typical. I remember that almost all gowns were A line, had long sleeves and high waistlines.
Most of the dresses I saw in the 1980s were pouffier than that one, too, and covered with bling. Some of those brides looked like walking chandeliers. When I played the Wedding March from Lohengrin, I was thinking "Here comes the Super Chief!". Some of those dresses could barely fit in the aisle.

IrishPirate60 · November 2015

And not a Pnina Tornai to be seen.

emmaaa · November 2015

I really like the lace cover coat thing from 1935. And I like the simple and romantic style and shape of 1945.

I think the 2015 is pretty accurate: lace, illusion neckline, blingy belt.

CMGragain · November 2015

I had a budget veil. If I had my choice, I would have wanted one like the 1920's bride. Maybe those will come back in fashion, since Downton Abbey is so popular?

julieanne912 · November 2015

I love love the 1955 dress. I actually thought that I'd wear something pretty similar to that til I saw that I actually look terrible in tea length haha!

I also laughed at the 2015 one as it's very very similar to my dress. I guess I'm trendy.

kimmiinthemitten · November 2015

I want the lace jacket from the 1925 coat to wear now! And yeah, aside from makeup, everything else on the 1980's bride was underdone; get that model some Aqua Net!

Even if it's not what the average bride wore in that decade, it is interesting to see how fashion changes over the years.

sparklepants41 · November 2015

Love love love the 1935 gown. And wtaf 1985? That dress is going to make me have to sleep with the lights on tonight.

thisismynickname2 · November 2015

That was fun to watch! I love the 1925 veil (and that's coming from someone who didn't wear a veil at all).
I'm actually surprised that 2005 didn't have a cupcake gown (with all the pickups on the skirt). Everyone I know who married in the mid-to-late 2000's wore an A-line dress, and most of those dresses had some kind of pickup detail.

ILoveBeachMusic · November 2015

I loved the 1955 dress. My cousin was married in 1966 (I was her flower girl) her dress was very similar to the 1965 dress. She even had the veil with the bow. My 1983 dress was much different then the 1985 dress. It wasn't as poofy - the '80s looked hadn't reached it's full height yet. This was quite entertaining.

mollybarker11 · November 2015

LOVED the 1935 one! The dress alone sort of looks like a nightgown and the collar reminds me of a housecoat but everything together is gorgeous. The lace coat has buttons all the way down to her hips, I wonder if the look was to leave it mostly open like they do here, or would brides have been more buttoned-up?

short+sassy · November 2015

I liked 1965 (minus the big bow veil) and 1995 the best. They struck me as both being fairly simple lines, but still with some pouf.

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