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Long Sleeve Wedding Dresses
Wedding dresses with long sleeves slowly return to the bridal fashion. It connected with popularity of vintage style, which is the last trend in the bridal industry.
Long sleeve wedding dresses were common in the last century. It`s interesting that iconic wedding styles were mostly at that era. In 1950 Elizabeth Taylor was incredibly beautiful in the silk satin ball gown with long sleeves, which is a dream of girls for decades. In 1954 Audrey Hepburn showed all over again her sense of chic on the celebrity wedding with Mel Ferrer. She was in a timeless dress with long wide sleeves, miniature waist and full tee-length skirt.
For her 1956 April wedding with Prince Rainier of Monaco movie star Grace Kelly wore etched in your mind ivory wedding gown with long lace sleeves. It was mentioned, that 450 yards of silk and lace were used on her dress. In 1981 future princess Diana married Prince Charles. She wore a fairy-tale dress with big wide sleeves.
 That dresses have been reproduced thousand times. They are a part of the fashion history. Now forgotten sleeve wedding dresses have a chance to return. This season vintage sleeve wedding dresses have embroidery, which match with embroidery on the neckline (Melissa Sweat). Also modest sleeves may be detachable and designed in a bubble shape (Reem Acra). Sometimes long sleeves are not only fashion choice, but necessity. Winter wedding dresses are supposed to be warmer. Most of Church wedding ceremonies required a bride to cover shoulders and neck. Brides usually pay a lot of attention and spend time to choose their wedding dresses, which often beautifully complement their body. Additional seasonal accessories may destroy already charming look. Wedding dresses with sleeves save situation.
Besides sleeve brides cover hands with capelets, which sometimes look like sleeves or wraps. Also a chic chiffon wrap may enthrall most of the dresses, if it was draped over in an elegant way. Nobody want to look a la “that`s a wrap”! The secret is to shape a silhouette and let some fabric to float. That simple truck may enchant any dress, yet it works well with a wedding dress.
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