Marraige a LA Mode

by Tobin, Shelley

• ISBN13: 9780707803586
• ISBN10: 0707803586
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-08-01
• Publisher: Natl Trust

Summary

An article in the Girl's Own Annual of 1914 recalls the writer's childhood thrill of discovering her mother's wedding dress and veil stored away in an attic; 'By the time I had come to an age to appreciate such things, the wedding gown was a bit yellowed with the years, and the fine tulle of the veil was a great deal matted, but ... to me they were the most desirable things in the entire old house.' The dress survived as a result of its owner's sentimentality, and as a souvenir of an important event and change in her life, just as so many others have been lovingly nestled in tissue paper and scented with lavender. This book traces the development of dress from the silver and white brocades of eighteenth-century formal, aristocratic weddings, to the elegant crinoline revivals of the 1960s and '70s.

Author Biography

Shelley Tobin is a dress historian based in Devon where she is Curator of Costume for the National Trust at Killerton House and Assistant Curator for the Royal Albert Museum, Exeter. She has worked with museum dress collections for over twenty years, and has published, lectured and broadcast on many aspects of the subject Sarah Pepper runs her own flower-arranging business in Devon, and supplies flowers for many weddings. She is writing a book on recreations of historic flower arrangements for the National Trust Margaret Willes is the Publisher for the National Trust. She is particularly interested in aspects of social history, including food, and has written several books for the Trust.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 6
Grand Occasions	p. 12
A Royal Wedding: Princess Charlotte and King George III	p. 14
The Bride wore Pink	p. 16
The Bride wore Blue	p. 18
The Bride wore White	p. 20
And the Groom?	p. 22
A Wedding Feast, 18th-century Style	p. 24
A Regency Bride	p. 26
Fine Lace	p. 28
A December Wedding	p. 30
A Royal Wedding: Queen Victoria and Prince Albert	p. 32
The Coming of the Crinoline	p. 34
A Lace-maker's Wedding	p. 36
A Marriage in High Life	p. 38
Bridal Wreaths and Corsages	p. 40
Bridal Bouquets	p. 42
The Wedding Cake	p. 44
The Photographer's Studio	p. 46
Brave New Colours	p. 48
A Victorian Trousseau	p. 50
The Wedding Breakfast, Victorian Style	p. 52
A Youthful Bride	p. 54
Working Brides	p. 56
Victorian Wedding Favours and Ephemera	p. 58
Trains and Drapery	p. 60
Sumptuous Silks	p. 62
A Literary Influence	p. 64
Weddings of the 1890s	p. 66
Edwardian Trousseaux	p. 68
Floral Luxury	p. 70
The Wedding Breakfast, Edwardian Style	p. 72
Edwardian Wedding Ephemera	p. 74
Two Edwardian Weddings	p. 76
Swansong	p. 78
Married in Khaki	p. 80
War and Peace	p. 82
Two Royal Weddings	p. 84
A Suffolk Bride	p. 86
Petals and Tassels	p. 88
Young Attendants	p. 90
A North Country Bride	p. 92
The Economics of the Bottom Drawer	p. 94
Trousseaux, 1920s and '30s	p. 96
Sylphs & Madonnas	p. 98
The Practical Bride	p. 100
High Sheen Satins	p. 102
Ingenuity and Improvisation	p. 104
Leave Permitting	p. 106
Demobilisation	p. 108
Trousseaux, 1940s and '50s	p. 110
Business as Usual	p. 112
The Return of Glamour	p. 114
The End is the Beginning	p. 116
Flower Power	p. 118
Select Bibliography	p. 120
List of Plates	p. 122
Index	p. 127
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