The origin of the wedding dress has the following several theories: one is that in 1700 BC ~ 1550 BC, the ancient Greek Mino dynasty three generations of aristocratic women wore the chest bare, sleeve to the elbow, chest, waist by the cord under the breast, wearing a bell-shaped dress, the overall tight fitting clothing. Because some ancient European countries are theocracy of the state, people must get married to the church to accept the priest or priest's prayer and blessing, so that can be considered a formal legal marriage, so the bride put on a white ceremonial dress to God to show sincerity and purity. Before the 19th century, young girls in the West were married in the dress worn by the most famous bride of the 19th century: Queen Victoria, who married in 1840. Although the media was not as advanced as it is today, Prince William became the focus of the world, but as the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain's influence is certainly significant. On her wedding day, the Queen wore a gown made of English silk, complete with a short veil that caused a stir. It was a novelty for a bride to wear a veil on her head. Queen Victoria's veil can be understood as an imitation of a nun's veil: an earthly bride can also appear at a sacred altar. In any case, Queen Victoria's bridal gowns were the subject of feverish imitations. With the royal example, people continued the custom of wearing a long white dress as a bridal dress. So calculate to come white wedding dress fashion also less than 200 years.
Paving the way for the white wedding dress is European white fashion. After the French Revolution, fashionable ladies all over Europe wore white. These revolutionary women wore a waist-less, sleeveless dress with pleats below the bust and a low neckline over the bust. What is particularly striking is the fabric of the garment, which is transparent and made of very thin yarn or linen. Goethe described the fashion in his "Color Rules" circa 1800: Women today almost universally wear white, while men wear black. The white fashion is considered classical Greek style. Consistent with revolutionary bourgeois values: liberty, equality, fraternity.
Although the popularity of this Greek-style dress was short-lived, white remained a fashion color for decades because it symbolized the wearer's social status. The woman who wore it employed servants and did not have to do any work herself. Many upper-class families wear a white wedding dress as a status symbol.
After World War II, with the rise of the middle class, people invested more and more in wedding clothes, and the wedding dress that most people wore only once turned white, before which it was expected to be worn for other occasions. In fact, Queen Victoria's wedding dress was reworked after the wedding so it could be worn again later.