White Bridal Wedding Costume##

White has long been accepted as the traditional color of the wedding dress, but wedding gowns were not always white. The marriage of Queen Victoria to her cousin Albert of Saxe- Coburg in 1840 has had more influence on weddings than any other.


Queen Victoria put the wheels in motion by marrying in white. Though brides continued to wed in gowns of different colors, white was now set as the color of choice for weddings and has continued ever since. In Godey’s Lady’s Book, 1849, this statement was printed:




“ Custom has decided, from the earliest ages, that white is the most fitting hue, whatever may be the material. It is an emblem of the purity and innocence of girlhood, and the unsullied heart she now yields to the chosen one.”

There is an old poem about how the color of your wedding dress will influence your future: “Married in white, you will have chosen all right. Married in grey , you will go far away.

Married in black, you will wish yourself back. Married in red, you’ll wish yourself dead. Married in blue, you will always be true. Married in pearl, you’ll live in a whirl.

Married in green, ashamed to be seen, Married in yellow, ashamed of the fellow. Married in brown, you’ll live out of town. Married in pink, your spirits will sink.”

Mid-Age Clothing

In Medieval Europe, as in the Roman period, most people wore loose linen or wool tunics like big baggy t-shirts. But clothing did become more complicated in the Middle Ages, and more used to distinguish men and women of different professions from each other.


Men mostly wore tunics down to their knees, though old men and monks wore their tunics down to the ground, and so did kings and noblemen for parties and ceremonies. Men sometimes also wore wool pants under their tunics. Wearing pants was originally a Germanic idea, and the Romans disapproved of it. But it gradually caught on anyway, especially among men who rode horses and in colder areas. Other men, especially noblemen, wore tights under their tunics. Knitting had not yet been invented, so they had to wear woven tights which did not fit very tightly. Outside, if it was cold, men wore wool cloaks.






On their feet, men wore leather shoes if they could afford them. You can tell if a medieval painting or tapestry was made before or after about 1300 AD by looking at the mens' shoes. In the earlier paintings men wear shoes with square toes, but later the shoes have pointy toes and even curve up at the toes in a kind of hook, just to be extra fancy.





Women also wore different kinds of clothes depending on who they were. All women wore at least one tunic down to their ankles. Many women, if they could afford it, wore a linen under-tunic and a woolen over-tunic, and often a wool cloak over that if they were going outside. On their legs women sometimes wore woven tights or socks, but women never wore pants. Nuns wore tunics like other women, but generally in black or white rather than colors. Noblewomen often wore fancy tall hats, sometimes with streamers coming off them. They sometimes plucked the hair from their foreheads to give themselves very high foreheads which people thought were beautiful.



Not much medieval clothing survives today, because clothing tends to rot when it is buried under the ground, and even in the air it tears and gets threadbare and then people use it for rags. Most of what we know about medieval clothing comes from medieval pictures and sculptures, which have lasted better.



This is an Early Medieval (Merovingian) belt-buckle made out of bronze.





Here is a pair of boots from the Merovingian period (about 700 AD) now in the Cluny Museum in Paris.

Here is some Merovingian jewelry from the museum at St. Germain en Laye near Paris. The jewelry is mostly gold and glass. There are some pins and some necklaces.

Simplicity Kids Halloween Costume ...

Red Painted Dress

Japanese Duds..

Japanese Habiliment:

There are four main types of clothing found in Japan: 1) those worn for everyday use: 2) those worn for special occasions such as festivals; 3) work clothes; and 4) costumes worn for noh and kabuki theater. Materials used in making clothes include linen, silk and cotton. Bright colors have traditionally been associated with young people while dark colors have been associated with older people.
The Japanese, especially Japanese women, are very well dressed. Their traditional clothes are elegant and refined and they like high quality, top European-designer stuff.




Yukatas


kids in yukata is a light kimono designed for outdoor summer use or indoor casual wear like a bathrobe. Used by both men and women, it is commonly worn around the house by women and used by customers at ryoken (traditional inns) and onsens (hot springs). They are usually made of cotton, which is comfortable and absorbs perspiration after bathing. A Tanzen is a heavier outer garment worn over a yukata.




Men's Clothes in Japan

Some Japanese men are quite fashionable, wearing nicely cut suits and designed clothes, or sport nice-looking, casual sports clothes. Other, though, dress pretty nerdy. They sometimes wear dark socks with Bermuda shorts, white socks with suits and have pens and calculators bulging from their pockets. But they are not as bad as they used to be.

Gaga's Meat Dress

Hello friends do u need meat fry???meat gravy????meat dress do get surprised ya here its a meat dress fashion parade...Have a look



It was made of 100% real meat. The meat came from a local family butcher in Los Angeles.



It smelled good. Gaga described it as "sweet"


The dress weighed about 50 lbs.

The meat was cheap. Peter Cacioppo, butcher at Ottomanelli Brothers on the upper East Side, said: “There are no expensive cuts here, no real steaks. The best you've got is the flank steak on top of her head.”


It was comfortable. Gaga said it was the most comfortable dress she wore all night.



The meat was 100% natural. No preservatives were added.


There was no blood. Franc Fernandez, the designer, said: “It's actually very clean meat, very sturdy and strong and doesnt run at all. It's the meat you use to make a roast, where you roll it in a tortilla and put it in the oven.”



The dress will eventually turn into beef jerky. The beef will dry our, not rot.

French Fashion Doll!!

Louis XIV wanted all of Europe to know about Paris fashions so he began sending life-sized fashion dolls to every European Court. The dolls were dressed in the latest styles. Noble ladies would have their tailors imitate the clothes, footwear, hats and accessories on the latest dolls.

The painstakingly correct dolls' clothes were beautiful and included every construction detail. The dressmakers were able to remove the clothes and copy them as patterns which they would then grade to the size of individual customers.

If necessary they would unpick the stitched outfits, assess the cut of the pattern and then remake the fashion doll's costume. The miniature fashion dolls were passed from court to court throughout Europe. They were exquisite and represented the latest word in fashion and trimmings. These alabaster or china dolls were sent to Europe and America in the 19^th century.

Although effective paper patterns were developed in the Victorian era the use of costumed dolls as models was used even after the Second World War. In mid 1945 the Theatre De La Mode was organised by the Chambre Syndicale of Paris. The Syndicale organised the sending of small scale couture designed models abroad.

It was a collaboration of fashion designers and artists for the spring and summer of 1945 fashions. It was intended to show the supremacy of French fashion designing and was an attempt to reassert French Couture. There is nothing quite like a model mannequin to really show off a garment.

Cool Silvery Holidays

Add some holiday sparkle to everything from little black dresses to red sweaters: this pack of glitzy bracelets from Old Navy It will only set you back $10. The set of silver-tone bracelets features three thin bangles, a beaded bracelet and a large faux-stone bracelet. Wear the all five together for a chic dressy look or mix and match. At this price, snatch one set up for your BFF, too.

Ballon Dress@@@

A dress to power###

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Paper Dress Garland

Do you want to make your small daughter happy???Come on let us do................Here is a dress made of sweet paper....
As a bonus, this garland will be part of birthday party decor on the fireplace, ready to greet guests.

Supplies:

–Patterned Paper

–Buttons

–Decorative Brads, Pearls, Rhinestones

–Trim

–Border punches

–Doilies

–Marker

–Decorative edge scissors

–Wooden mini clothes pins

–Ribbon

Start by tracing this pattern onto decorative scrapbook paper and cutting it out. Along the bottoms and sleeves of the dresses, I chose to use zig zag scissors and scalloped edge scissors for some variety. Feel free to get creative and use border punches too.

As for pattern and color, I went for bright and cheery. I did try to stick with smaller scaled printed paper, simply because a large print on a smaller dress looked off.

When you’re finished, simply hang the dresses by clothes pins on a thin piece of ribbon and enjoy!!