Are Wedding Dresses Today Modest/Immodest?

[ac_claire]

That is a beautiful gown, and I wish more dresses like that were available for brides to buy. As to why only the royal brides seem to have gowns like this, here are a few of my hypotheses (only my opinions, mind you. ):

1. The royal brides have the money to have any style of dress they want custom-made for them. They aren’t limited to the bridal stores which seem to have only one kind of dress anymore – revealing.
2. Perhaps the royal brides have a sense of propriety missing in far too many other brides (or at least, must act as if they do).
3. The royal brides probably don’t want their wedding pictures appearing in the tabloid press under a headline about how cheap and vulgar they looked for their wedding.
4. Maybe the royal brides feel that “hot sexy mama” isn’t the correct look to be portraying on their wedding day.
5. The priests in their churches may be extra strict about standards of attire.

Now for the regular gals, the ones who can’t afford a complete, custom-made bridal gown, they have to get tough. If they want a modest dress, they should insist on buying only such a dress – no cleavage down to the pupik (that’s “belly button”), no “topless” dresses, and no “topless” dresses with a little frou-frou sewn on to make it look a tiny bit more covered up. The only way the bridal stores will carry modest gowns is if brides insist on them and threaten to walk out if they can’t find what they want. It’s scandalous that the only shops selling modest bridal attire seem to be those catering to LDS brides (if LDS brides can be modestly attired for temple weddings, why can’t Catholic brides be modestly attired for church weddings?)

Yeah, when I was still thinking I’d be married in an actual white wedding gown, the place where I was going to order was from an LDS online store. The Mormons have really beautiful, modest white gowns and they’re somewhat reasonably priced.

What you said about the royal brides is pretty much true. In fact the white, lacy “traditional” wedding gowns that we see today originated with royalty (Queen Victoria I think) and for a long time the color white was associated only with royal brides. Regular brides like us would have worn a dress in any other color except for black (reserved for mourning) and red (considered “racy”).

Some interesting reading:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_dress

geocities.com/e2davies/brides.html (this one has some illustrations)

 

[Rachell]

The bridal gown is one of the favorite parts of the wedding for most brides. If you ask brides what they loved most about their weddings (other than the groom!), most will say their wedding dresses and their bridal jewelry sets. Since it is such a special part of the wedding day, it can be really fun to design some wedding decorations that are inspired by the details on your bridal gown.

Every woman likes to be cautious about her looks and appearance so that’s the reason why today the wedding dresses are modest.

 

[Bluegoat]

I got married in a cheongsam. I had to figure out how to deal with the side slits for walking which can potentially be revealing, but other than that it covered a lot but was still very feminine. And including the seamstress, it cost under $50.

 

[Rachell]

Day by day life is changing ,people are more conscious about their look.

So dressing sense is also taking change in our lives .Every person likes to be cautious about her looks and appearance. Anyway, fashion is mostly related to women. It can also be said that fashion is synonymous to women. But the fact is that fashion is not just about dressing, but many things add to it.
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