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Boys' Wedding Outfits: Countries


Figure 1.--This German wedding was held in 1932. It looks to us like a working-class wedding, but we have no specific details about it.

we have not yet begun to seriously reserch country wedding trends. Our archive of wedding images is very limited. We suspect that social class differences are more important than national differences. Having elaborate weddings with costume ring bearers and flower girls as well as pages and other attendents are more likely among affluent than middle class families. There are also religious differences that cross national boundaries. We will add information here as more images become available on weddings in different countries. Hopefully readers will provide us information about wedding traditions in their countries. We suspect that Victorian England played a major role in establishing modern wedding conventions. Of course a country like the United States people with immigrants from many different countries has a wide variety of wedding trafditions. We notice some countries which use ethnic costumes for weddings. One example is the kilts worn by men and boys at Scottish weddings. Here we see a German wedding (figure 1). We also have someinformation about American weddings. We have collected information on several specific American weddings. We also have some information on French weddings.

Individual Countries

we have not yet begun to seriously reserch country wedding trends. Our archive of wedding images is very limited. Here we are interested both in the attendees and the wedding party. Hopefully readers will provide us information about wedding traditions in their countries. We suspect that Victorian England played a major role in establishing modern wedding conventions. Of course a country like the United States people with immigrants from many different countries has a wide variety of wedding trafditions. We notice some countries which use ethnic costumes for weddings. One example is the kilts worn by men and boys at Scottish weddings. Here we see a German wedding (figure 1). We also have someinformation about American weddings. We have collected information on several specific American weddings. We also have some information on French weddings.

Social Class

We suspect that social class differences are more important than national differences. Having elaborate weddings with costume ring bearers and flower girls as well as pages and other attendents are more likely among affluent than middle class families. Of course weddings of individuals from different classes would also show national differences.

Religion

There are also religious differences that cross national boundaries. We will add information here as more images become available on weddings in different countries. This would be especially true in countries like the United States with immigrants from many different countries.







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