1930 Wedding Dresses - Photos of Real People
This family wedding photo is of an ordinary couple Hilda and her husband
who married in 1930 in Cardiff.
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www.fashion-era.com 2006-8
October 1930
is the date of Hilda's Wedding
photo.
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her wedding photographs.
Hilda's wedding dress
has a hemline covered in feathers. Her veil is edged with a
scallop lace and follows the cloche veil style. See another dress
with feathered hemline on the
1928 wedding page.
This 1930 wedding dress is much longer than the majority of bridal
gowns worn
through the 1920s. The shortest were in 1926/7, but there was a sudden dramatic
drop in hemlines in
1930.
Most
of the 1930 wedding guests are dressed for autumn days and some for even colder
weather. All the women wear long sleeved dresses, or coats and
either could be dressed up with fur
scarves/collars. Suits are not much in evidence at this wedding.
Many of the dress styles follow the dropped waist silhouette of the
previous few years, but with longer skirt lengths. If you are
comparing an unknown wedding photo with these images chances are
your photo was late 1920s early 1930s.
These McCall's pattern right are for dress styles for 1929.
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The bride and bridesmaid wear much longer gowns that truly adopt the
latest fashion styles of 1930.
These day dress models below are typical of fashionable styles at the
dawn of the new decade in 1930. The line is slender, but the
waistline has begun a shift upward. The evening dresses show
longer calf lengths which had begun to take hold in 1929.
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The bride's trousseau was still an important feature of the
preparations for marriage in 1930.
My 1930 Good Housekeeping page illustrates what outfits the bride
might be expected to select for her
1930 wedding trousseau.
This April 1930 fashion issue concentrated on advising the bride of
all the latest fashionable styles from Paris and in particular the
new silhouette and skirt length. The fashionable new length for the
new thirties decade had dropped dramatically and was 4 inches below
the knee. This issue also explained specific clothing items could be
bought directly from that issue of Good Housekeeping. It also
itemised the 1930 trousseau at a cost of $386.15. The fashionable
1930 trousseau included a satin wedding gown, a veil, a 3 piece
going away suit and a suitcase of other items which amounted to more
than 5 types of dresses, a full coat, jackets, lingerie and more
sundry items.
Go to 1930 wedding trousseau page.
See more late
1930's line drawings here.
You can read more about 1920's fashions in
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read
how to date an old photo in this section here.
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Another 1930's
Wedding Dress
James Paton and (Mary) Veronica Standen 1931 - Gorton
Right - This old 1930s wedding dress photo is from Kathleen and is
of James Paton and (Mary) Veronica Standen. This photo was taken on May 23,
1931 in Gorton, Manchester, England.
Note how the bride's wedding dress has lengthened and is the truly fashionable ankle length
of 1931. The shoes however are still the Mary Jane style that had been in
favour for many years.
One very nice touch is the bride holding a prayer book rather than carrying
a floral bouquet.
This ensemble shows a move away
from 1920s styling. The longer fuller skirt with the bodice on
the waist is firmly set in the newer fashion for 1930s wedding dresses.
Features that you see in later decades are not present in this 1931 wedding photography, for example, the bride is not wearing earrings, neither does she appear to be 'painted' with make-up.
Pretty accessories like Veronica's headdress are very striking, with the veil substantially shorter than many 1920s veils. You can see in the photo below the detailed work that went into sewing the
pearls. See more 1931 Wedding
dress photos
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