Saw this dress on display at KP a few years ago and was surprised by how much nicer it looks in real life and you can see the amount of work on the beading etc. The 1920s era might not be a favourite of mine in regards to the fashion but i now appreciate this wedding dress more after seeing it in the real
I've always wondered that about this particular dress. If it would look far better when seeing it in front of me and sounds like it would.
Face it, sad as it is, that was the style of that era and I honestly think it was the best that could be made of a horrible phase in Fashion. Making it worse was it being the Royal Wedding Gown of the first Bride marrying a son of George V and Queen Mary's. Reason I say that is look at the next two Brides. Both Princess Marina and Lady Alice looked stunning, but by that time the style of that era had started to change and streamline a bit thankfully for them, as the elaborate embroidery on the then Lady Elizabeth's Gown just wasn't the in thing anymore.
As much as I adore both doing and admiring gorgeous Embroidery I've always thought, and this based solely on my limited viewings of it from pictures and newsreel footage, the Embroidery goes down the bodice too far. Which in turn hampers just how much of a skirt can be formed from it, even w/how shapeless the style was then, and you throw in the then Lady Elizabeth's body shape and size.... Even if it had only been a few inches difference, she really needed them to help give the illusion of a waist or even added height.
I've always thought of this dress as "Great intentions, but didn't really come off as hoped.". I've seen the actual sketch in a few things that were put out for The Queen Mum's 100th Birthday & it's sadly in the same category as Crown Princess Mary's. Meaning the sketch was far more beautiful than the actual dress. A shame too, as there was great potential w/it, but just didn't happen.
Now in this picture up there, is that her actual Wedding Bouquet? If so, then it's the first of that day I've ever seen of it in the picture. Remember due to a Vicar fainting and holding up the Bride's Procession going down the Aisle, the then Lady Elizabeth walked over to the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior and placed her Wedding Bouquet on it. Beginning a Tradition that lives on today w/every Royal Bride's Bouquet being placed there after the Wedding & Photographs are all over and done w/.
I have an idea of how it was supposed to look, thanks to the British Royal Weddings documentary (highly recommend), where a florist made a copy off of the photographs of it and the other Bouquet designs that were used by the future Duchess of York to choose from. It really was lovely, w/Heather for Scotland and White Roses for the Rose of York.
It's just a pity the dress didn't match up to the bouquet.
Sent from my iPad using The Royals Community mobile app
