Wedding Dresses From The 50s

Want to look beautiful and angelic on your special day? Then get a wedding dress and evening wears from the 1950s to look simply splendid. The wedding dresses from the 50s becomes complete with other spectacular accessories like veils, tiaras, shawls, embroidered bags and shoes to look absolutely stunning.

Beautiful bodices of the 1950’s wedding dresses

The wedding dresses of 1950s were specially made of fabrics like chiffon, silk and satin. The bodice would often have hand beaded crystal shallow scoop drape fronts, silk duchesse V-neck drape waist bodices, strapless 3 quarter length 50s lace appliqué silk organza a-line long gowns, silk crepe v-neck drape waist with optional corsets, soft ruche bodices and all these bodices would usually be decorated with Strella feathers or lace silks in various designs. The bodices were also decorated with silk appliqués and silk tulle roses and rosebuds.

Often an ivory fake fur stole with duchesse satin ties wrap around your neck and impart you a particular soft touch and feel.

Special skirts of 1950’s wedding dresses

The A-line skirt continued till the floor and covered your tiny waist, hips, legs, and made you look simple and classic. Whether you were tall or short, the wedding dresses of the 1950s fitted you so well that it made you look truly charming and petite. While the skirt had roses stitched on the waist it opened out to flowing girth to encircle the whole lower portion. The end width of the skirt was always hemmed with lace trimmings that matched the neckline or handcuffs of the dress.

With flower corsages and candy-colored gloves the wedding dresses will complete the look. The gloves could often be of other colors like pink, off white, blue and green that matched the dress color and made the bride look pretty and charming.

Other specialties in 1950’s wedding dresses

It was the golden year 1950 that moved the world from austerity of 1940s to the prosperity of the 1960s. So the style of the wedding dresses of the 1950s were unique from the other traditional wedding dresses. A typical Elizabethan style diffuses into the wedding dress styles of 1950s. The dresses have upstanding Gothic style collars, wired ribbons, removable lace boleros, and crinoline flutter hems that make the dresses look beautiful. While the wedding dresses were usually strapless either long or short sleeves are a must.

The dresses ranged from being calf length to long lengths. The dresses were worn with a full crinoline underlining, and available in matinee and cocktail length. The dresses looked simply wonderful with lace bodices, net pleats at the neckline, knifing pleats on the skirt, draping dramatic lace panels over net and cutting appliqués on the dresses. The specialty of the dresses lay in layered materials that added perfect style and plush fullness without the style looking too cumbersome.

Wear wedding dresses from the 50s to look simply different from all.

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