Weddings and Accoutrements


Wedding party, Lewiston, 1897

Wedding party, Lewiston, 1897
Item 18378   info
Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries

Wedding dresses, especially, often stray from contemporary fashion, emulating instead Victorian or other historical styles.

Various colors and patterns graced wedding outfits until the mid nineteenth century. When Queen Victoria married Prince Albert in 1840, she wore white, thus influencing wedding style for most of the Western world.

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