Investigating the complicated origins of this historic wedding tradition.
© New Line Cinema / Courtesy Everett CollectionIt’s a Western wedding tradition treated with almost dogmatic certainty: in her bridal trousseau, a bride must have “something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.” When Kate Middleton walked down the aisle, she did so wearing her engagement ring from the 1980s, a custom pair of acorn earrings gifted from her parents, a tiara belonging to the Queen, and with a blue ribbon sewed into her dress.
In it, a young girl breathlessly tells her sister that she must tuck a blue bow into her dress before she marries a wounded soldier: "Brides, you know, must always wear ‘something old and something new, something borrowed and something blue;’ so I found this bow of mine at the last moment, and we can each wear it in turn after you, Sue,” she says.
“The usual effect of the bride of the Evil Eye is to render her barren, and this is obviated by wearing ‘something borrowed,’ which should properly be the undergarment of some women who has been blessed with children: the clothes communicate fertility to the bride,” he writes. Blue, meanwhile, is known as a color that protects one from the evil eye.The murky origin story of bridesmaids
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