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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.

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

http://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/in-honor-of-the-royal-wedding-princess-charlottes-wedding-dress-1816/

http://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/?p=16704

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 [...]

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And some of them (heck, all the pictured ones) are pretty impressive. I wore my mother's, and became the only bride who wore that dress (there have been five that I know of...) who divorced, so the dress has a running streak better than the national average. But these dresses are fun and memorable.

I hope, if I ever get married again, to be healthy enough to get married in something in silk, colorful, and designed for ballroom dance. In the meantime, never underestimate the power of a woman with paper! There was this free-form Tolkien door panel I made in college one year....

http://www.cheap-chic-weddings.com/wedding-contest-2010.html

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