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Women wearing the fengguan as part of their set of wedding clothing has been a long tradition in the area of Zhejiang. [11] The fengguan was a symbol of good fortune. [ 2 ] However, women who were remarrying for a second times and who were to be become a man's concubine were not allowed to wear fengguan .
Believed to be the same woman as in La Bulaqueña. The María Clara gown, historically known as the traje de mestiza during the Spanish colonial era, [1] [2] is a type of traditional dress worn by women in the Philippines. It is an aristocratic version of the baro't saya.
The women are wearing Kranzmaikes, Lower Saxony A Swedish bridal crown from the 1930s in use through Täby Parish. Traditionally a bridal crown (German: Brautkrone or, in the Black Forest, Schäppel) is a headdress that, in Central and Northern Europe, single women wear on certain holidays, at festivals and, finally, at their wedding.
Side angle shot of a blond mantilla. A mantilla is a traditional female liturgical lace or silk veil or shawl worn over the head and shoulders, often over a high hair ornament called a peineta, particularly popular with women in Spain and Latin America. [1]
A bolero jacket or bolero (pronounced / ˈ b ɒ l ə r oʊ / or / b ə ˈ l ɛər oʊ / in British English and / b ə ˈ l ɛər oʊ / in American English) [2] is a more formal garment of similar construction but made of stiffer fabric, essentially a short tailored jacket, inspired by the matador's chaquetilla. Like the shrug, the sides of the ...
Women use the shawls for dressing up and going to parties. During the Festival of the Crosses of May in Cordoba, balconies are dressed up with the shawl that add a bright look to the plazas. During the April Fair in Seville, most of the women in Gypsy dress (flamenco dress) use the shawl as an accessory. The Manila shawl is also used by female ...
A stole is a woman's shawl, especially a formal shawl of expensive fabric, used around the shoulders over a party dress or ball gown. A stole is narrower than a typical shawl and of simpler construction than a cape ; it is a length of a quality material, wrapped and carried about the shoulders or arms.
Afterwards the woman could wear other chura in any colour for as long as she liked. It is now normal for the bride to wear her chura for a month and a quarter (40 days). As the chura is made of fragile materials, Indian custom has it that the bride may refrain from heavy housework in her marital home to keep it intact for the 40 days, as a kind ...