How to Choose a 1920 Lace Victorian Wedding Dress

1920 wedding attire was especially beautiful, made from fabulous materials, beautiful satins, lavish silks and supple chiffon. These wedding dresses were decorated in truly elaborate fashion with the finest of long sleeve lace to accentuate the primary materials chosen. Exquisite embroidery was added to many short sleeve wedding dresses and long sleeve wedding dresses, gorgeous hand sewed beads were added to make wedding dresses even more stunning. Things were opulent, glitzy, and extravagant in the 1920’s. Well to do was taken to the extra limit. The stock market was booming and people were enjoying high rolling, dancing to jazz, the sound of Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong. This era was matched with wedding shoes and wedding gloves that set the stage. Wedding gloves were made of satin and lace. The wedding veil was made from lovely materials.

In the 1920’s Wedding dresses were beautiful and creative. A time when flowing shimmering satins were turned into magnificent works of art, displayed as dresses. Flowers and lace adorned beautiful wedding dresses, and they commanded a pretty penny, to this day if you are fortunate enough to find one. Some wedding dresses were carefully hand stitched with hemlines meticulously trimmed in lace or embroidery. Opulent, elegant, exquisite, these are all words that fail to describe Wedding gowns made with loving care. Some wedding dresses were long sleeved and others were made with short butterfly sleeves all delicately designed; right down to the hemline.

Wedding dress materials were real, no synthetics and embroidery was done by hand. The fish tail hemline, the scooped neckline and the empire waist line were the rage of the day. The country was in the time of flappers and prohibition, on the move, changing and so was wedding dress fashion. Flowers were freely available and were an important of the wedding dress attire. Certain colors were more popular than others. Embroidery and intricate beaded belts and ribbons were extra special touches displayed on wedding dresses for this special occasion.

The 1920’s was an age of excess; everything was taken to the max. With Wedding dresses the trend was the same. Wedding dresses represented the age of Smooth Jazz, lace covered satin, chiffon enamored with beads and satin embroidered, beaded and laced. Combinations of wedding dress materials with furs and beautiful trains both short and long detailed for the 1920’s wedding dress. Wedding dresses the 1920’s era are very beautiful. The opulence of wedding dresses is still stunning and an achievement for wedding dress designers today. The designs are exciting, filled with precious intent exuding energy. Time was special; an era of extreme creativity in every aspect of society and this was reflected in the clothing, especially wedding dresses.