As the V&A's spectacular Wedding Dresses 1775-2014 exhibition comes to a close, the curator Edwina Ehrman discusses some of the highlights of the show and reveals what she wore to her own wedding.
Please describe
your wedding dress - did you wear a white dress?
I did - I got married in 1976 and, in the end, I wore a Liberty's wedding dress. It was a classic mid -'70's design – so, a high neck, a pin-tuck front, big
balloon transparent sleeves and quite a full skirt, plus a train. The bit that
made me really feel like a bride was the train. It changed me completely
- it was quite transforming.I had a headdress and a veil and I hated the headdress. It was very
much the era of the headdress and looking back, it was absolutely vile. Weddings now are very different, because the bride usually has complete control and often the groom, too, due to the financial aspect. A wedding is something that the bride and groom will plan
together now. I was
completely reliant on my parents to fund the wedding.
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| 1970's Style: Chiffon velvet and machine-made lace 'Faye Dunaway' dress by Thea Porter. Designed for Susanne Trill when she married James Elliot in Lincoln on 21st March 1970 |
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| Wool dress with Celtic scrollwork designed by Jean Muir for Pamela Colin's marriage to Lord Harlech in 1969 |
