1400s Princess Wedding Dresses
- The materials for the upper class wedding gown typically included the most expensive materials: velvet and brocade, trimmed with fur, intricate lace or even gold and pearls.
- During the 1400s, a wedding dress could be any color. A princess might have worn her royal colors trimmed with gold or furs befitting her station. Purple was a color reserved for royalty. Frank Woods, a wedding officiant in Los Angeles, says on his website The Marrying Guy that green was a popular bridal dress color at that time. But Anne of Brittany wore a white gown at her wedding to Louis XII of France in 1499, Woods says, and appears to have prompted more brides to wear white.
- The princesses of the 1400s wore several layers. Beneath the gown, the princess would have worn a shift, a corset, petticoats and stockings as her undergarments. A petticoat or the skirt of the dress might have been fitted with a hoop.
- The bride wore few accessories. She wore her hair loose as a symbol of maidenhood and a crown appropriate for her royal status. On her gown she placed a single brooch, a symbol of chastity and her pure heart. Finally, she received a gold ring, possibly with rubies or sapphires, representing faithfulness and love.
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