An 1849 issue of Godey's Lady's Book — essentially, the 19th Century's answer to Cosmopolitan — celebrated the white wedding dress, and even suggested that brides should have been wearing ...

For most American brides, that dream is realized in a beautiful white wedding gown ... the Middle Ages to the mid-19th century, most brides simply wore their best dress or purchased a new gown ...

Wedding corsets (cotton ... its use extended far beyond dress reformers to become a staple for many men in the late 19th and early 20th century.” Arnold says. “It is not exactly the same ...

“You look at the wedding business now, which is enormous – it’s an industry to itself,” says Hunt. “So you imagine that in the 19th century when this became a phenomenon it had the same ...

In Western culture, the dress taking away the collective breath of all assembled is generally a floor-length gown in one or another shade of white — call it pearl, cream ... collection is a unique ...