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WCDT 4041 - 4045 (8th - 12th July 2019)
Case:
--- Quote from: hedgie on 11 Jul 2019, 23:19 ---Le Sigh. Whatever happened to a nice simple blacksmith wedding?
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They went the way of nice, simple blacksmiths?
Thrudd:
--- Quote from: Cornelius on 11 Jul 2019, 23:26 ---
--- Quote from: hedgie on 11 Jul 2019, 23:19 ---Le Sigh. Whatever happened to a nice simple blacksmith wedding?
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Ashes, clinker and iron filings don't agree with white dresses. Forges and synthetics don't mix well either.
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Ah good ole Victoria and her peers with their co-opting of other cultures and then brutalizing them into commercialization.
Before her white was and still is until recently in other cultures a symbol of mourning and death. It is why ghosts are still depicted all in white outside of the Hollywood cistern.
That woman was the grand marm of influencers and not always for the better.
Black was actually a most popular colour for wedding finery before her though every colour of the rainbow was acceptable and yes white was worn but only as a way of showing off that you were wealthy enough to keep it clean in the first place.
If you want to go into cultural appropriation the Victorians did quite a bit of that in their time.
Transmundane:
--- Quote from: brasca on 12 Jul 2019, 00:00 ---
--- Quote from: hedgie on 11 Jul 2019, 23:19 ---Le Sigh. Whatever happened to a nice simple blacksmith wedding?
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Might be Bubbles and Faye’s special day.
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A double wedding, perhaps?
Cornelius:
--- Quote from: Thrudd on 12 Jul 2019, 06:10 ---Before her white was and still is until recently in other cultures a symbol of mourning and death. It is why ghosts are still depicted all in white outside of the Hollywood cistern
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And of course, the ghosts are not under sheets, but actually wrapped in their burial shroud.
On the other hand, I've always found it hard to believe that white was for the rich, on account of keeping it clean. I understand whites were the easiest to keep clean, as you could bleach them. Which is also why diapers and bandages weren't coloured. Granted, you don't just boil finer fabrics. Other colours and dyes would fade.
In some regions, I hear green was favoured for weddings, with connotations of fertility. But then, colours and their meanings are a study in themselves.
hedgie:
--- Quote from: Transmundane on 12 Jul 2019, 07:41 ---A double wedding, perhaps?
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Just as long as it's not a Red Wedding.
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