That was probably a combination of a tighter laced than normal corset and "photoshop" bc they did actually have ways of retouching photos during that period to make women's waists smaller. It may also have been due to her wearing a bustle and padding around the bust to make those areas appear fuller, a common place thing in undergarments at that time.
@@readroyal6661 corsets in the Victorian era were not tight laced at all, it was only a handful of women that practiced tight lacing and it crossed a point where it was considered improper. Victorian fashion was all about the illusion. Women would wear dresses that were on or just off the shoulders as this broadens the shoulder or they would wear extra padding in the sleeves to achieve it (think Cinderella’s dress) they would then have a number of petticoats and/ or a steel crinoline to keep the shape of the skirts which would puff the skirts out at the hip and bum to give the illusion of wider hips. Coupled with the broader shoulders and maybe 2-4 inches off your natural waist from your corset, your waist would look very small
@@janikb3538 @MillieJay14 I study fashion history. I know that tight lacing was not nearly as common as people make it out to be, but people did lace down to a certain extent on special occasions. This is very different from tight lacing which could be very dangerous and painful. People can comfortably wear a corset and lace down about 2 inches, without it being dangerous or painful. I also did say that it could have been a mixture of this AND a bustle AND padding. I’m fully aware it was all about illusion, hence why I talked about various techniques used.
They also wouldn’t be wearing crinolines in 1895, they would be wearing a bustle. And to reiterate, they did have means of photoshopping pictures to further the illusion.
EJZYEBEJZYE they said Great Great (Or 2nd Great) Grandmother. was the original bride to wear it. Implying, that siblings, aunts, maybe even cousins wore it as well
Of course, so does Dita Von Teese. It's an incredibly small waist even with a corset. Must have been torture to wear though, no wonder she's not smiling in that wedding photo! :D
maybe because she bought the dress that suited her and her body and the rest just wore it because it was passed down to them and they wanted to wear it. but don't get me wrong im not saying the other girls should not have worn it or anything.. =)
Your right. Other then the missing puff up sleeves and corset it was a lovely dress. I would like to wear something like it but more fitted to my own body and less puffy sleeves. Still for how old it is it is still very much in style (if you take into account what it should look like).
Damn, the first woman who wore the dress her waist was snatched! Edit: yes, I know she wore a corset. I’m not asking a question, I’m just saying her waist was very small as a result.
@@ViaMirage yes luv, a victorian dress, not to mention a heirloom, needs to have the right undergarments because it looks uncomplete without a corset and a petticoat. she looks like she bought that dress of amazon in a bargain price.
Oy, this dress does not work at all without the proper undergarments. Victorian gowns such as this had a chemise, corset, and 3-5 layers of petticoats underneath a silhouette such as this. They also had puffs to wear around their arms to give the sleeves shape. They way she wore it, it just looks sad. It looks like a cheap Victorian costume, even though it's the real deal. What a shame.
Had it fit properly, like on the original bride, it would have been great. It was also 3inches too short even after the “200 hours” of work. Love the tradition though.
"Every mother wants their daughter to wear the wedding dress that they wore" False. I know plenty of women with daughters that don't care about that, and my own mother has never expressed wanting me to wear her wedding dress.
My mother dyed her wedding dress purple. :( I would've loved to wear it, but not with this colour. She dyed it long before she had me, but it never even crossed her mind, that her daughter might want to wear it one day. It came totally unexpected for her when I told her.
I agree. When my mom got married in 1961, she decided to rent a wedding dress so she definitely wasn't thinking of that. And her own mother eloped in 1927. Actually both my sets of grandparents eloped.
That dress was meant to be worn by a corseted lady, it looks frumpy and misshapen when the corset is missing. The only thing to do was wear a corset or tighten and adjust the dress; also the sleeves needed repuffing, otherwise they fall listelssly adding to the overall limp impression.
It's really kind of sad that they didn't do those things. I'm sure the tradition was the most important thing, but she really did not do that dress the justice it deserved and actually could have.
They could have altered it better to fit her. I mean, it's beautifully restored, but ill-fitting, which could have been fixed while leaving wiggle room for another bride.
achanwahn it looks like it was made to be fitted to a mannequin of similar size to the bride rather than actually fitted to the bride. On the mannequin it looked beautiful, but it could've fitted the bride better
achanwahn it’s I’ll fitting because she isn’t wearing the proper undergarments. Women wore chemises, drawers, stockings, up to 4 petticoats a maybe some padding for the butt, a corset, corset cover, bosom filler out, and sleeve puffs. All these undergarments made the dress fit good. But if you just wear the minders underwear it looks dumb
None of them looked as good as the original wearer. The dress was meant to be worn tight and most of them did, but this last one was too tall for it and the bust/waistline were loose and as dull as a unfitted prom dress.
She would have had to get in a super small corset and tightlaced herself if she wanted to look like the original. Very few people still do tightlacing like that nowadays, a few thousand at best. A huge petticoat would have made the dress a lot better however.
In all honesty...the very first bride was the best. The other brides don't have the physical attributes the Victorian bride had. She actually was the best bride for the dress and while it may seem a lovely idea to carry on the tradition...where is their tradition of having a different dress to pass onto their daughters. A lot of pressure to wear the dress that wasn't as nice as the original owner of the dress. Sorry for being so mean but it wasn't a nice look at all.
The original brides sleeves were lovely and full and she obviously had a big underskirt under the dress. She was also a few inches shorter than the subsequent brides. Some things should definitely be left in the past. Ive no idea why these women didnt wear a hoopskirt under it! The dress looks so deflated!
My thoughts exactly! The dress looked so sad & deflated, and I desperately wanted to take some bleach to it because of all that yellow XD ! But I definitely agree the very first original bride wore it best :) .
@@abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwyxz102 even the husband said the bride is way more beautiful than the dress! Must've cost a ton to refurbish that relic. Tradition maybe but it did not look great on her!
@@cherylmedeiros6287 so maybe the husband only cares about his wife a dress is just clothes to cover urself up and a person is something that is alive he doesn't care about the dress he cares about his beloved wife
It’s lovely that this dress has been passed down but it looked awful on her she has a lovely figure & a beautiful face that warranted a beautiful dress
I agree to all you said. She's an attractive girl, I know it's a tradition but if the dress doesn't fit maybe it's time for it to be a side exhibit. The fabric isn't going to take much more before they have to take stronger measures to preserve it.
It her wedding day , it should be her wanting to wear it . ....or not. If so....wear it correctly , not just thrown on . It doesn't become the bride or the dress if that respect is not involved. Period .
The dress is GORGEOUS, it's just not worn as it should be, if you check the first picture it's OMG amazing. She needs the puff in the sleeves, an apropriate corset and of course more lenght as someone already mentioned
Yikes, that sure looks bad. The thing about Victorian clothing is that it needs a corset, all the undergarments, petticoats and bustles to look good. It's a shame, could have been beautiful but it just looks deflated.
Maria Loudis Probably, as the hoop skirt would have just hiked it up more. She could have had the waist dropped a bit and had a panel added in i mean its not like they didnt take the damn thing apart!
what do you mean? All little girls dream of their wedding dress looking like stained yellowed satin that fits like a parachute in all the wrong places.
You just know they had an argument the second she got engaged. Her mom probably paid for that whole expensive wedding and held that over her daughter's head if she didn't wear that ancient thing.
I agree with everyone in the comments... its a nice thought but that dress is hideous on her. Its an old Victorian dress and the only who managed to pull it off with the physique and style was the first person who wore it, Mary.... otherwise... no.
That was a cool story. The dress - soooooo beautiful. I'm surprised none of the other brides wore the sleeves puffed out and the skirt over a crinoline and petticoats like the original Victorian bride though - she looked like a Disney fairy princess!
She should have gotten a photograph with it on for display and then wore an actual dress that fit her for HER big day. Some mothers live vicariously through their daughters and take away the magic.
They probably should’ve had it fitted it looked a little too loose, not to mention that it wasn’t worn with anything else like the petticoat or the sleeves so it looks mEh
I think that dress is elegantly beautiful...I hope that their marriage endures any, and all hardships, and their love for each other grows stronger every day..
No its 200 hours... Assume 4 hours a day because 8 hour work days. And that's being generous that half her work day was this dress. It would take about 2 months.
The dress looked best on the great great grandmother because that's how it was designed to wear. The other women ignored that important detail and that's why it looks frumpy on them.
Sarah in 1960 and Laird 1977 rocked the dress but Mary 1895 wore it as it supposed to wear - with billowy sleeves and big ballgown skirt. They should've added length to the hem and made the bodice corseted as they used to do back in the day. The remnants of the gown lacked form and if they really wanted to keep it original then they should've restored it to its original condition - a big showstopper princess ballgown with dropped waist, fitted armholes, and loved how the neckline showed just enough. This was and could be a beautiful gown.
That's a nice late-victorian dress. too bad that it was so ill-fitting. It was obviously re-made to fit not-tightlaced form of later brides, so I don't see the harm of fitting that dress to her since it was already being fixed. That is, since i think donning intended undergarments(corset for smoothness and sleeve supports) wasn't even considered.
I thought they were going to reveal an 'after' shot of the dress once it had been restored but no that badly fitted floppy mess was the final version? If you've taken it apart and re-stitched it there's definitely room to tighten the shoulder straps so it doesn't fall off like that and put some pouf back into those sleeves even if she objects to wearing the appropriate undergarments just fixing the neckline would help a lot. Also the 'tradition' of wearing this family garment had a very slow start this was originally made in the 1890s and the next bride was in the 1940s, 50 years later, assuming both brides #1 and #2 were about 20 when getting married that means bride #2 was born when bride #1 was about 50 so more likely to be her grandaughter not her daughter. If the original bride's daughters were OK with saying no to the dress how did grandma's wedding dress become such a strong tradition.
It's beautiful as an antique, but I disagree with the mother: I wouldn't want my daughter to wear my wedding dress. I also want my wedding dress to be individual, to me (so not the latest clone-a-dress trend, ex: the strapless, corset-laced, many-pickups-on-the-skirt trend of the 2000s).
A 19th century dress in that style looks good only if worn with the 19th century style undergarments that go with it, or else there is very little or indeed nothing keeping the dress in the shape it was meant to have. Hoop skirt, petticoats, corset, and yes, there even were things put inside the sleeves to puff them up. This looks like a poor fit, sorry, but that's the truth.
Absolutely lovely! What a sweet bride and a gorgeous gown! I would love to have had something like that passed down in my family! I wish you the happiest of marriages!
That’s really sad. To feel forced into such an ugly dress just because it has been passed down for so long. I definitely would not want to be in her shoes. 😐
The first bride looked awesome in it because it was tailored for her and her only. All the other ones didn't have the same body type and it looked terrible on them.
Every mother wants her daughter to wear her dress?? LOL No. I was married at City Hall wearing capri pants and a collard shirt. The life long marriage is more important than a one day wedding.
I love the slight hesitation from the groom. That guy has to go into politics that's the best response I think you could get from anyone... "the bride is more beautiful than the gown". Heck what bride WOULDN'T look better than that gown!
"Something old......" something extremely old that it looks like yellow sack. Nice sentiment but either update that dress or burn it. Poor Abby's daughter and granddaughter
The dress should have been tailored to fit her. It was too large which made it unattractive. If she has a daughter, I hope they have enough sense to have it properly fitted on her. I'm surprised neither the mother or the bride seemed to notice how unflattering it was.
You can tell Abby doesn't like the dress and only did this to please her overbearing mother. Instead of manipulating your daughter into something she doesn't really want, her mother should've helped her find a way to incorporate the old dress into something new. (if that's what Abby wanted). They could've had some of the fabric sewn into the new gown or into her bouquet, for example.
Agree.. I will never understand women who force their wedding dresses on their daughter...Your daughter should have her own wedding and her own dress, not have to replicate your wedding so you can relive it through her..
How can you just assume that her mother is manipulative? You weren't there. You don't know what happened between them. Not gonna argue whether she liked the dress or not, but you're too fast to assume that her mother is a manipulative witch. Don't burn her at the stake!
I understand it's a family tradition for them with the dress and it's a beautiful thing for them to do . but seriously she looked like a frumpy hot mess .. Was not pretty at all. ..
Jane (1986) and Ann (1992) messed up that dress's look. Idk what it was, Ann looked tired. lol Abby is cute, but the dress should have been accessorised to looked the way it was made to look. 1) Needs a thinner (cinched) waist. 2) Needs a bigger skirt. Needs poofing up in the skirt. 3) sleeves need poofing or puffing up. All 3 of these go together to create the intended style or final look for this particular dress.
I love that she even held a single rose like her mom did on her wedding day. I love the smibilisime of all of the woman handing the dress down but at the same time every woman deserves their own special dress. I like that they've all changed it and made the dress a little different but I think it's time to put it in a shadow box and start the tradition with another dress bc this one has definitely seen it's last days. I love Goethe groom said that the bride is definitely more beautiful than the dress. He was really sweet.
Every mother doesn't want their daughter to wear the wedding dress they wore...Every mother wants their daughter to look breathless in a dress that suits them.
How woman in my family feel is that if a mom's care so much about their daughter wearing her dress then it's more about the mom at that point. Granted - this bride loved the idea but some mom's are just over board when their daughters don't want to wear it
+sushibu I agree! Some moms are crazy!! If the daughter doesn't want to wear the dress, she doesn't! And they try to like pick their daughters wedding gowns! It's insane.
my mom had a simple civil ceremony in the 1980s. sure as hell dont think she wants me to wear her grey mauve and navy striped shoulder padded dress she wore on her wedding day lmao.
