White Wedding Dress

 This week we talked about 'Victorian Age' and I learned strange information about both Queen Victoria and this period.

  Firstly I want to mention that ; for the first time ''white wedding dress'' was put on by Queen Victoria . Normally in this term brides in kingdom put on grey dress in their wedding ceremony. She put on 'white ' wedding grown as a symbol of virginity and innocence ,  because in Victorian Age virginity and purity had a great importance . Because of the importance of virginity in this period , 'white' wedding gown accepted easily and being permanent.

  When we look at the Ottoman Empire,  brides in Ottoman put on red wedding dress . However at first 'white wedding gown'  was put on by Naime Sultan who was the daughter of Abdulhamid II . She saw the white wedding dress at the wedding ceremony in Europe . Naime Sultan really liked it , and she put on white wedding dress in her own wedding ceremony .

 To sum up ; the reason of feeling herself as a queen when a girl puts on white wedding grown is that was put on at first by a real queen.