Wedding Gowns

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French Inspired Wedding Gowns

Fashion has represented an important industry and cultural export of France since the 17th century and it kept this feature up to now. All the names given for different styles and trends bear the French language in them as they originated mainly in Paris and from there being spread all over the world. Paris is considered nowadays one of the world’s fashion capitals hosting regularly many of the premier fashion shows. The top designers such as Coco Chanel, Christian Dior, Louis Vuitton,...

Royal Blue Wedding Gowns

Royal blue is a tint that is met both as a bright shade and dark shade in the range of blue. By the mid-20th century, as the brighter dyes became available, people were more tempted to think of royal blue as a brighter color. But no matter what royal blue is considered, the color of blue is the one to describe the blue of the sky and this is what makes it universal. Its effect is one of cool, calm and is often used in painting the walls of a bedroom. In many cultures blue is symbolic in...

Wedding Gowns Inspired by Grace Kelley

There is a trend in fashion, especially in the wedding fashion, for the women to imitate the style of an actress in the way they dress or look. Grace Kelly is an example that states the tendency of the young ladies to appear stylish and classy at their wedding event. Grace Kelly was an American film and stage actress and at the same time a fashion icon. When she married to Prince Rainier of Monaco, their marriage was known to be the “marriage of the century”, due both of their...

Oleg Cassini Wedding Gowns with Crystals

There is this print of personality, education, cultural upbringing that leave its mark on every fashion designer’s creations and this feature, maybe more than in any other fashion designer is to be noted on Oleg Cassini’s wedding gowns. The fact that he grew up in a family bearing the nobility title -count and countess Cassini – brought a flair of intuiting how the elegance goes hand in hand with fashion design. Though he didn’t receive a fashion education proper to...

Wedding Gowns for Holiness Standards

Standard, generally speaking, is an established norm which in the context of a social environment is related to decency; standards of decency differ from one cultural context to another and are incorporated in the social norms of a nation. Social norms represent behavioral expectations that a society requires from its inhabitants. These norms define a set of rules that a group uses in order to delimitate appropriate values, attitudes, behaviors and beliefs. These social norms reflect also the...

French Bustle On Wedding Gowns

A bustle is a type of drapery that is made out of the richness of a fabrics used in skirt design. It was first introduced in the fashion between 1870 and 1875. In time this style got many ways of expressions that at first appeared in the shape of crinoline that was supported by an additional frame attached to the back of the waist. Later the crinoline was dropped and a separate bustle or tournure replaced the concept, in that it was made from several layers of fabrics that came draping over the...