Time Travel Tuesday #5

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Wedding Dresses Without Long Trains

To save money and fabric, many brides skipped long trains and gravitated toward shorter, floor-length dresses for an elegant look.

Dresses would usually have a sweetheart neckline and fitted bodice with sleeves that were gathered or puffed at the shoulder and fitted to the rest of the arm. From the waist, the full circle skirt would fall to the floor. Long trains were a waste of fabric and not allowed, but shorter trains were. Dresses were also pretty plain and usually didn’t have embroidery or embellishments – they did sometimes have ruching though.