Investigating the complicated origins of this historic wedding tradition.
tradition treated with almost dogmatic certainty: in her bridal trousseau, a bride must have “something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.” When Kate Middleton walked down the aisle, she did so wearing her engagement ring from the 1980s, a custom pair of acorn earrings gifted from her parents, a tiara belonging to the Queen, and with a blue ribbon sewed into her dress.
In it, a young girl breathlessly tells her sister that she must tuck a blue bow into her dress before she marries a wounded soldier: “Brides, you know, must always wear ‘something old and something new, something borrowed and something blue’; so I found this bow of mine at the last moment, and we can each wear it in turn after you, Sue,” she says.
A year later, in a humorous essay titled “Marriage Superstitions, and the Miseries of a Bride Elect” formagazine, a bride-to-be laments the absurdity of this wardrobe demand: “On the wedding day I must ‘wear something new, something borrowed, something blue’. The first is easy enough – a matterThe second is not difficult, as many dear devoted friends are so charmed to have a finger in the wedding pie, by doing, lending .
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