White Dress
Future Dress
The future of the wedding dress in post-modernity
Two dominant trends have emerged regarding the future of the white wedding gown. The first is that of its increased cultural ubiquity, even in non-Christian cultures. Just as white came to symbolize affluence and middle class prosperity in Victorian England, embracing the Westernized white wedding gown has become a cultural status symbol in areas of the world as diverse as Turkey and Japan.
In Turkey, a Muslim country, the trappings of Western weddings such as expensive engagement rings, lavish banquets and ceremonies, and above all the white gown have been embraced, particularly by the burgeoning middle class (Lovan 2011). Rather than purity or socioeconomic status, the dress suggests the income level of the users, much in the same way that wearing a dress that could never be worn again proclaimed one's status a hundred or more years ago in England.
In Japan, despite the association of whiteness with death in traditional cultural schemas, the white gown has likewise...
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