In Honor of the Royal Wedding: Princess Charlotte’s Wedding Dress, 1816

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Trying a Live Journal Share here -- for Regency fans, take a look at Princess Charlotte's wedding dress. Amazing -- but probably not comfortable! The detail work was without doubt the crowning achievement of a seamstress's career, and may have contributed to blindness in some of her staff. Glad that people can still see it 195 years later.

Originally posted by janitesonjames at In Honor of the Royal Wedding: Princess Charlotte’s Wedding Dress, 1816

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The Telegraph.co.uk features a video of five beautiful wedding dresses of the past, Queen Victoria’s and Princess Margaret’s among them, and asks the question, “How will Kate Middleton’s gown measure up to history?” Featured is Princess Charlotte’s beautiful silver wedding gown, which has not been on view for several decades and which, as the oldest [...]