Do all brides wear white gowns on their wedding day even if they e not virgins?
White wedding dresses didn’t come into fashion until Queen Victoria wore one to her wedding. Aristocratic debutants in Europe wore white and pastels to signify that they were virgins, but they were often married in dresses that were colored, because it showed that they could afford to have a brand new dress made just for that occasion. (It made the brides family appear wealthy.) None of this applied to non-aristocratic women, who only had 1 or 2 dresses total. They would just wear the one that was in better shape. After Victoria wore it, that’s when the trend really began. But it’s not true that brides have always worn white – it’s just common myth that seems to be brought out to make women who have had a sexual past feel bad about chosing a dress in that shade. Many brides don’t wear white at all – they wear cream or off-white, because it looks better with their skin tone. Many dresses on the market now have color accents in a whole range of colors (including the once banned color – b
