Year 6 Graduation Dresses for 11 Year Olds

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200 BC: Indian Saris

A tradition that can be traced back to approximately 200 BC, brides in many parts of India wear a sari, which is typically red with golden embroidery. She covers her head as a sign of respect. Many brides also adorn their hands and feet with henna, a natural dye, and it's also traditional for the new wife not to do any housework until the designs have faded away.

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Ancient Rome

During the Roman Empire (around 27 BC through 476 AD), the mother of the bride dressed her daughter on the morning of her wedding. The Roman bride donned a tunica rēcta — a one-piece, floor-length tunic — knotted around the waist with a band of wool that only the husband was allowed to untie. Over the tunic, she wore a bright yellow veil, the flammeum.

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Middle Ages

This artwork was painted between 1510 and 1520 and depicts a wedding procession and a traditional bride in blue. During the Middle Ages, the color was considered a symbol of purity (this is likely where "something blue" comes from). The bride often wore either a blue dress or accessory — like a garter, which gained popularity during this era.

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1603: Japanese Kimonos

Japanese brides have been wearing a white kimono called the shiromuku ("pure white" in Japanese) since the Edo period. Today, brides often wear glittery threads woven throughout the design, or a thin accent color along the hem or collar. After the ceremony, it's customary to put on the uchikake, a colorful silk kimono — often red, which is considered good luck — that's worn open over the white garment. The bride is done up in heavy makeup, a wig, and a head covering.

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1840: Queen Victoria

When she married her cousin Prince Albert, Queen Victoria also popularized the white wedding dress for the Western world. The lacy gown was made entirely in England, and featured a low-cut bodice and an 18-foot train that was carried by 12 attendants.

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1911: Native American Attire

In this photo, the bride, who is from the Wishram tribe of Oregon, is wearing a beaded headdress with shell beads and Chinese coins, dentalium shell earrings, a beaded buckskin dress, and many beads around her neck. According to Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian: Photographic Images, "This form of headdress was worn on special occasions by girls between the age of puberty and their marriage."

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1922: Princess Mary

While Coco Chanel was introducing the first knee-length wedding dress, King George V's daughter went a more traditional route with her floor-length gown and long train. She still kept up with '20s styles, though, with a loose, low-waisted shape and cloche veil.

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1937: Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

The pale blue dress the American socialite wore for her wedding to the Duke of Windsor has been called "one of the most photographed, most copied dresses of modern times." It was a simple, sleek column topped by a corseted jacket with rows of covered buttons — one of the first tops where the jacket is not supposed to be removed.

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1947: Queen Elizabeth

The Queen's ivory satin gown has been called a "fresh beacon of hope" for post-World War II England, symbolizing spring and rebirth with its floral design. The dress had a 13-foot train, and was decorated with 10,000 imported white pearls, silver thread, and tulle embroidery. According to British Vogue, "Her Majesty famously saved up ration cards to purchase the material needed."

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1950: Elizabeth Taylor in Father of the Bride

That lacy neckline! That dramatic skirt! For a woman who got married eight times in real life, it was a wedding gown from a movie role that truly struck a chord. Costume designer Helen Rose created the dress, which was very similar to the one she designed for Taylor's wedding to Conrad Hilton later that year.

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1956: Grace Kelly

The iconic gown, featuring a fitted lace bodice and bell-shaped satin skirt, is said to have inspired a more recent royal wedding: that of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge. The beloved actress wore three layers of petticoats, which gave the skirt that dramatic volume, at her wedding to Prince Rainier III of Monaco.

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1957: Audrey Hepburn in Funny Face

Full-skirted tea-length gowns became huge (literally) in the '50s, and Hepburn's delightful custom-designed Givenchy gown was a perfect example. She accessorized with a whimsical, two-tier veil.

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1966: Mia Farrow

Farrow's wedding skirt-suit was as unconventional as her May-December romance with Frank Sinatra (she was 21, he was 50). The mod style was a boyish contrast to the girlie ballgowns of the '50s.

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1967: Raquel Welch

As the '60s wore on, both morals and style rules relaxed. Welch shows that anything goes during that decade with her crochet mini-dress topped with a fur coat.

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1968: Jacqueline Kennedy

For her first wedding, to John F. Kennedy in 1953, Jackie wore a traditional gown and long lace veil. However, for her second nuptials, to Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, the former First Lady wanted a more contemporary style. She looked ultra-modern in a Valentino mini-dress with a short, pleated skirt, balloon-shaped lace sleeves, and appliquéd-lace decorated bodice.

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1969: Barbara Windsor in Carry On Doctor

The era of short hemlines continues. Windsor wore this risqué ensemble for her role in Carry On Doctor in 1969, and accessorized with an equally outlandish veil.

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1971: Bianca Jagger

Talk about a daring look. During her nuptials to Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger, four-months pregnant Bianca decided that the shirt she had intended to wear under her tuxedo jacket no longer fit. So she took it off.

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1981: Princess Diana

Princess Di's poufy-sleeved dress pretty much embodied the '80s. This Cinderella-style gown had it all: bows, sequins, embroidered lace, pearls (10,000 of them), a crinoline (stiffened petticoat), a corset, layers of more petticoats, and a never-ending train. Because the train was so long, Diana's father reportedly had a hard time fitting inside the coach to accompany her to the ceremony.

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1985: Christie Brinkley

For her New York wedding to rocker Billy Joel, Christie Brinkley was clearly in a poufy, princess state of mind. She walked down the aisle in a full-skirted, high-necked satin gown by Norma Kamali overlaid with ivory lace and gold tulle. Dresses weren't the only thing bigger in the '80s: Brinkley carried 50 long-stemmed ivory roses as her bouquet.

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1993: Mariah Carey

The pop star wed Columbia records exec Tommy Mottola in a marshmallow-like Vera Wang gown with a 27-foot tall train, which required six assistants to lift.

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1996: Carolyn Bessette Kennedy

The mid-'90s brought a new minimalism to wedding fashion (and brides everywhere breathed easy, because they could finally walk in their dresses). Carolyn Bessette married John F. Kennedy, Jr., in an elegantly simple bias-cut silk dress by Narciso Rodriguez.

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2002: Gwen Stefani

Stefani's John Galliano gown helped usher in an era of blush pink, champagne, and otherwise non-white wedding dresses. And she's not the only celeb to think pink on her wedding day: Anne Hathaway and Jessica Biel also glammed up in the girlie hue.

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2008: Carrie Bradshaw in Sex & the City

Mr. Big may have jilted her, but Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) got a fantastic dress out of it. The Vivienne Westwood concoction is a punk twist on the traditional Victorian gown. In March 2009, a cocktail-length version of the gown sold out in a matter of hours on net-a-porter.com — for $10,000.

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2011: Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge

The dress that launched a thousand replicas also has a storied past. Designed by Alexander McQueen's Sarah Burton, it recalls Victorian corsetry with its nipped-in waist and padded hips. The royal gown popularized a new conservative look in this decade's sea of strapless dresses, inspiring more brides to cover up.

Year 6 Graduation Dresses for 11 Year Olds

Source: https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/beauty/fashion/tips/g113/wedding-dress-evolution/

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