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.
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.
Because wedding dresses are white and an old famous fuddy dutty racist said it.
First wedding dresses are traditionally white. After that they aren’t. She wasn’t wrong but standards have moved on without her.
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.
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.