black victorian style dress Southern Girl – House of Aama Stephanie Joens is 58 and wearing a size small Exquisite Black Brocade Masquerade Dress

The slip dress though was such an influential part of the 1990s though, the character Rachel Green from Friends was most known for pulling off this look

Across the pond, King Edward VII had passed on, and the far more conservative George V was making his mark in an attempt to reintroduce the formality his father had let slide in the courts.Despite his best efforts, his stylishly young son, the Prince of Wales, known as the twentieth century Beau Brummell, was turning heads as he strutted around like the boys of Harvard when the trad, prep, and ivy styles first hit the Northeastern United States

The best part: you can style it so many different ways, so it can be reworn to countless engagement parties and events

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I snatched it before some other 15-year-old on a mission (and a limited budget) could and walked tall all the way to the dressing room

While these black dresses arent exactly a tradition in itself, its still pretty cool to think about the history of wedding fashion