1910 Photos of Real People in Wedding Fashions
1910 Edwardian Wedding Dresses
On this page I have 2 lovely wedding photographs both known to be from
1910.
The first white wedding picture was known to be taken November 1910 in Detroit,
Michigan. It was delightful to learn that the site visitor who sent this
photo knew that her great-grandmother made the
1910 wedding dress for her grandmother the bride. The
great-grandmother also sewed the very similar dress of the Maid of Honour. If you are wondering
why these two lovely women look so alike, it is because they were
cousins.
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These two wedding pictures are so interesting in that they
illustrate a change in fashion silhouette happening at the end of the
Edwardian era.
Since
1908 the waistline had been rising slowly. But
even though some wore the waist still on the natural waistline the
silhouette was changing and getting slimmer. With the advent of a
longer line corset that almost reached the knees, skirt fullness and volume
trains were decreasing compared to 1900.
The waist rose even higher to reach a maximum empire line by 1913/14.
The 1910 sketch left shows one of the main dress styles of
the year. The bands rising from the bodice to at least the shoulders and
sometimes down the back bodice are called bretelles. The bretelles often had
several deep tucks and were an area ripe for heavy embellishment with lace,
appliqué or passementerie.
The late Edwardian bride above wears a beautiful white
wedding dress in satin with decorative bretelles
running from the slightly raised waist to cover the sleeve head. There
are narrow bretelles to a lesser degree on the bridesmaid's dresses in the photo below.
  
The styles of the Edwardian wedding dresses in both photographs have many
similar elements especially in the close fitting sleeves with some sleeve
head fullness and in the high dog collar necklines.
But probably the
most important feature of dresses of 1910/11 is to note how the waist is often
higher and the sleeves tighten at the forearm. The sleeves lose all that
lower bloused fullness so evident in the
1904 wedding photo.
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This Edwardian wedding dress photo shows that rise in the waistline on
the bridesmaid's dresses. You can see how the skirt of the bridesmaids
flares and is similar in silhouette to the centre drawing above. Although the bride Florence appears to
wear
a dress which sits on a slightly lower waistline.
This is close up of the bride's veil. The veil style really is very
similar to the bride at the top. The 1910 bridal bouquets also seem
squatter and less elongated than in the
wedding
picture of 1904.
Other features of note are the wide decorated hats, the high ruff neck collar
and that the whole sleeve is worked from deep one inch tucks or lace inserts.
These women are truly late Edwardian in appearance.
Old photos can be useful when tracing family members and narrowing down
search dates . These photo pages may help you put an era to your
undated images.
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You can read more about 1900's fashions in
the Edwardian section.
You can
read
how to date an old photo in this section here.
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