It’s National Day again, and this is my...guess what, 6th. Had no plan to go near Marina Bay this time, of course, I flew solo to the National Museum because they’re having National Day open house whoopee! And they're showing the highly anticipated Wedding Dress exhibition ultra-whoopee!
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| Big mistake. I ended up feeling even more lonesome than before. |
Anyway, the show isn't as grand as I expected, but the dresses are pretty. They’re displaying wedding dresses from the 1800s to the present day, lent by Victoria and Albert Museum in London, who deems itself as the world’s greatest museum of art and design. I am gonna check if it’s true, one day. One day, Devina. The exhibition also unfolds the accounts about the brides well-known or not, the designers, and how social and economic circumstances affected how British women dressed on their wedding day.
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| Gwen Stefani's dress, by Galliano. Not my cup of tea. |
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| Cuuuute! Like pjamas! |
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This one. My top pick among them all. |
This Victorian wedding dress was worn by a wealthy lady, Eliza Penelope Clay at her marriage to Joseph Bright, in St. James's Church Piccadilly, London, 1865. I hope the Blekberi camera could capture the details - of the veil (oh, the VEIL), but yea, sorry.
But. But, I did a lazy, further research about this dress online, and apparently you can find an article about the conservation of the dress from the V&A Museum website. Amazing stuff. The picture below is the before-after photos from the website:
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Amazing rear view ( from V&AM website)
So, dear all the ladies out there, married or hoping to be, happy or lonely, taken or free, owned or independent, optimistic or miserable, I guess there's nothing wrong with paying a visit. Oh wait, there are plenty, apparently. |
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