Friends, Uncle Oxy brushed this set of Pakistani bride's dress on the Internet a few days ago.
The black-and-gold bridal dress was originally outside the modern Chinese's perception.
But on this exotic face in the video, it brings unspeakable nobility and mystery, and it looks particularly harmonious.
There is a feeling that a piece of jewelry in your hand is worth 7 figures
Shu also found a very interesting observation in the comments section:
The bridal dress is matched with the race, the white veil with the white person is the best looking, the red wedding dress is the most dazzling on the yellow race, and the black gold has the most noble atmosphere under the thick facial features in the Middle East.
But in fact, the traditional dress colors in all regions were not originally designed to meet the aesthetic color of the human skin color.
In the life event of marriage, they contain more social beliefs, cultural customs, and even women's status.
Three major wedding dresses in the mainstream colors
Uncle takes everyone to plate the wedding dress aesthetics of each region from these angles.
01
The White Wedding Dress in Europe: Rights and Status
On December 1, 1927, Ms. Song Meiling wore a white Western wedding dress and held a carnation at the big wedding, and since then, the Chinese modern wedding is no longer based on traditional clothing, but uses the wedding dress as the bridal dress at the wedding.
The white yarn in the West is not like the phoenix crown of the mainland, but belongs to the traditional clothing handed down from generation to generation.
Europe in the Middle Ages did not prescribe a color for the bride's wedding dress.
However, because the clothing dye at that time was a rare material, and the brightly colored outer clothing was a symbol of honor, the wealthier families would wear bright red and green at the wedding.
During the Renaissance, Westerners began to respect red, so the aristocratic wedding dresses at that time were often even dominated by red.
In "Queen Margot", Adjani wears a large red wedding dress with a huge hem and a jeweled crown with a lace collar, which is a little similar to the Chinese phoenix crown.
It seems that for the matter of showing off wealth, human aesthetics are still easy to converge.
However, the deep facial features + white skin tone of the Caucasian race, with a red wedding dress, will look particularly solemn, not festive.
This aesthetic was maintained until the 19th century, when a shift from red to white was finally produced by The European admiration for ancient Greek styles.
In 1840, Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom wore a cream and white satin dress at the wedding ceremony, wearing a garland symbolizing reproductive ability, and looked holy like an ancient Greek goddess.
The holy white also represented the virginity of the newlywed woman at that time
As a result, white yarn became a trend.
Because the white dress needed to be taken care of by man at that time, and only the noble ladies were able to wear them in the early days, the color of the wedding dress was once again equated with status and class.
The yearning for the white wedding dress when European commoners get married is more like a yearning and imitation of class.
Although the region with white wedding dress as the main aesthetic is in Europe, there is one country in Asia that also advocates white wedding dress, that is, Japan's white without dirt.
White without dirt is a type of kimono that is worn on the bride from the inside out and from head to toe.
Grown up in the blind spot of modern Chinese wedding aesthetics
Japan itself is influenced by the West, with white as the respect, once they would wear white on major occasions (such as samurai cutting their bellies), but in modern times, the more common major occasions are weddings.
And the white and spotless whiteness, placed on the newlywed wife, has another terrible meaning:
Women should be chaste, ready to die for their husbands, ready to sacrifice at any time, just like this white, they can give up their egos and "dye your color."
02
China's Red Wedding Dress: The Beauty of Yin and Yang Harmony
Today's young Generation in China is more pursuing traditional Chinese wedding dresses.
I remember that in recent years, when my friends around me got married, they all liked to wear Xiuhe clothes.
Named after "Orange Red"
The shape of Xiuhe costume is the style of the late Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the People's Republic, and the Chinese wedding dress style improved on this basis will be relatively simple and easy to walk.
And the color matching of the big red embroidered gold has always been in line with the "heavy industry" color aesthetic of the Chinese style, so it has become popular.
Han Geng's dress when Lu Jingshan was married was by Guo Pei
But in fact, the real Chinese traditional wedding dress is not only the big red we think.
Our ancestors were more elaborate than we thought, and they valued the meaning of color in major occasions more than the color itself.
Most of the ancient dress system continued from the Zhou Dynasty, and from the Zhou Dynasty to the Sui Dynasty, the empress's wedding dress has always been dominated by xuan color, called 袆衣.
"Zhou Li Tianguan NeisiFu": "The six garments of the queen: 袆衣, 揄迪, 阙狄, Juyi, 襢衣, 褖衣".
Among them, although the dark color of the coat is a black system, it is not a shallow black.
This aesthetic color number is determined by the celestial sign, when the color of the emperor's wedding dress pays attention to "upper and lower".
Xuan, the junction of night and sunlight at sunrise, is the black and red, representing the beginning of yang;
It is the yellow in the red at sunset, which means the end of the yang and the beginning of the yin.
The connection between xuan and the yin and yang means that on such a major occasion as sacrifice and marriage, the ancients respected heaven and earth and hoped that everything would go well.
Weddings are a great thing in the hearts of the ancient Chinese, so the emperor will allow ordinary people to use the color of the emperor's wedding dress on the day of the big wedding.
So in the beginning, the black and red system was the mainstream color of Chinese dresses.
So how did we go from black and red to pure red?
There is a trade-off process.
In the prosperous tang dynasty, the luxurious Tang culture led the trend, the color of clothing became a variety of bright, and the red and green system began to become the mainstream color of wedding dress that highlighted prosperity and joy.
In the Song Dynasty, Shangjian and the empress's robe gradually became a match between Qing and Zhu.
It was not until the beginning of the Ming Dynasty that the red color was finally retained separately.
Zhu Yuanzhang vigorously admired the "Zhu" color, and from the imperial palace to the people, they all began to use the red color that represented the yang qi as a happy color and a positive color.
After many dynastic changes, the aesthetics of Chinese wedding dresses have officially begun to aesthetically in red tones.
ps: In fact, the ancients of the Jin Dynasty also tried white wedding dresses, and the three mainstream colors of international wedding dresses were tried by the ancients, and finally left the red color that was most in line with the aesthetics of national culture.
03
Heavy Duty Wedding Dresses in South and Southeast Asia: Cultural Propaganda
In addition to the white wedding dresses in Europe and the red dresses in China, there are very few countries that have particularly iconic wedding dress color labels.
For some South and Southeast Asian countries, their traditional wedding dress style is more like the promotion of national culture and the begging for prosperity.
The emphasis on craftsmanship > style colors
For them, on major occasions in their lives, placing representative works of the nation and traditional craftsmanship on wedding dresses is more important than pursuing popularity and spiritual heights.
At Pakistan Wedding Fashion Week, the most eye-catching thing is the handicraft embroidery on the wedding dress
Thai wedding dresses, mostly based on Thai silk half shawl + embroidery, color selection and silk matching cream color system.
Thai silk is the main material of Thai national costumes, Queen Sirikit of Thailand loves to use Chinese jewelry with Thai silk material cheongsam, and her wedding dress also uses Thai silk, which vigorously promotes the Thai silk industry.
India's wedding dresses are mostly traditional sarees, with bright red, bright yellow and royal blue colors.
Each piece is sure to be paired with their heavy-duty decorative craftsmanship and traditional national hand-paintings.
In India's religious culture, red represents courage, sex and fertility.
High-caste brides often make wedding dresses privately, and craftsmen dye, embroider, and place jewelry on red satin salises.
Sometimes the "high weight" of wedding dress is the aesthetic of Indian women's wedding dress.
Well, today's wedding dress aesthetics uncle in various countries will be here with everyone.
Uncle Oxygen feels that the popularity of every color and costume must be inseparable from the culture and history of society.
For example, it is precisely because our country has a long history that it will have a sufficiently rich cost to derive a most suitable national color aesthetic.
Even so, behind each of our Chinese shades there is a story, a belief, waiting for us to dig, and aesthetically, this must be an extremely happy thing.