• QuarterSwede@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Not sure why this was posted here. It’s not surprising an elderly lady had that opinion.

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        6 months ago

        First wedding dresses are traditionally white. After that they aren’t. She wasn’t wrong but standards have moved on without her.

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          6 months ago

          My frighteningly virginal grandmother was married in 1948 in a pink skirt suit. If it was normal to wear white at that point for any one but the elite, she would have done so. This “white wedding” bullshit is a relatively new way of shaming women.

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          6 months ago

          No, she’s wrong period. The color of wedding dresses has a misogynist history. Traditional is a bit tinged here. Who the fuck cares what dress color some person wears? In this case it was a racist misogynist with a lot of power and sway.

          I’ve a great many folks in my time have second weddings there are lots of white dresses. The only people who give a shit about that deserve the dust bin of history and when mentioned; mentioned as farce.