Lace, the Wedding dress and Fashion Museum, Bath

There’s a certain Royal Wedding in Great Britain this weekend, you may notice, and once again much attention is focused on what the bride, and groom, and the royal family will be wearing.

A mannequin at the Fashion Museum, Bath, UK, wearing a woven silk wedding dress with lace embroidered silk net.
Photo by Lucia Carpio for My Fashion Connect Global

Exhibits at the 2017 Lace exhibition, at the
Fashion Museum, Bath, UK.

According to the Fashion Museum in the historical town of Bath, lace was very much an important trimming featured on the wedding dress and as a veil of the bride, ever since the early 1800s.  Queen Victoria gave the trend a royal approval when she wore a white Spitalfields silk dress with Honiton lace at her own wedding in 1840.

Currently one exhibition that is of particular significance this year at the Fashion Museum in Bath highlights the strong link between royal women and their fashion.

One of the key exhibits there at the Royal Women exhibition is the 1863 wedding dress of Alexandra, The Princess of Wales.  It is described as an excellent example of a ceremonial object marking a key moment in both the life of Alexandra and Great Britain.

The exhibition spans four generations of Britain’s royal women, and explores how their royal roles influenced their choice in dress.

Royal Women is on at the Fashion Museum in Bath until 28 April 2019.