Wedding dress
A garment worn by a bride during a wedding ceremony. Its style and color vary across cultures, eras, and individual choices.
White wedding: A wedding ceremony in which the bride traditionally wears a white dress. The white dress became a prominent symbol of Western bridal tradition.
Queen Victoria: Queen of the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901, whose 1840 wedding popularized white bridal dress. Her white satin wedding gown helped make white a fashionable bridal choice.
Wedding dress silhouette: The overall outline created by a wedding dress when worn. Silhouette determines the gown's visual proportion and how it moves.
Bridal fashion: Clothing design and retail focused on weddings and bridal occasions. Wedding dresses sit at the center of a specialized fashion industry.
Traditional Chinese wedding dress: A bridal garment associated with Chinese wedding traditions, often featuring red and auspicious decoration. Its color symbolism contrasts with the Western convention of white bridal dress.
Bridal symbolism: The meanings attached to bridal clothing, colors, ornaments, and wedding customs. Dress choices can signal purity, prosperity, family identity, or personal style.
Victorian fashion: Clothing styles and practices associated with the reign of Queen Victoria. The modern Western bridal gown took shape amid Victorian ideals and fashion.
Wedding dress train: A fabric extension trailing behind a wedding dress. Train length changes a gown's formality, movement, and ceremonial effect.
Wedding dress designer: A designer who creates garments intended for brides to wear at weddings. Designers shape bridal trends through distinctive silhouettes and construction.
Kimono: A Japanese T-shaped, wrapped garment with wide sleeves and an obi sash. Brides may wear wedding kimono rather than a Western-style gown.