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Queen Victoria in her wedding dress by Winterhalter, 1842. The first answer is more or less accurate, but glosses over centuries of white wedding dresses worn before Queen Victoriaâs wedding, and decades of coloured wedding dresses after her wedding, and also doesnât explain why Victoria wore a white wedding dress.
As we consider the history of women's dress, and the development of pants on women, we go back to a time when Ellen White was still living. Consider the prevailing fashions of the day: Prevailing fashions of 1850s and 1860s included corsets, dragging skirts, and hoops. These dresses were unhealthful and impractical.