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History of the White Wedding Dress
Queen Victoria in her wedding dress By Franz Xaver Winterhalter
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Queen Victoria in her wedding dress By Franz Xaver Winterhalter
History of the White Wedding Dress
The tradition of a white wedding is commonly credited to Queen Victoria’s choice to wear a white wedding dress at her wedding to Prince Albert in 1840. Some say Victoria‟s choice of a white gown may have simply been a sign of extravagance, but may have also been influenced by the values she held which emphasized sexual purity. Royal brides before Victoria did not typically wear white, instead choosing “heavy brocaded gowns embroidered with white and silver thread,” with red being a particularly popular color in Western Europe more generally. European and American brides had been wearing a plethora of colors, including blue, yellow, and practical colors like black, brown, or gray. As accounts of Victoria‟s wedding spread across the Atlantic and throughout Europe elites followed her lead. Because of the limitations of laundering techniques, white dresses provided an opportunity for conspicuous consumption. They were favored primarily as a way to show the world that the bride‟s family was so wealthy and so firmly part of the leisure class that the bride would choose an elaborate dress that could be ruined by any sort of work or spill. The color white was also the color girls were required to wear at the time when they were presented to the court. Although women were required to wear veils in many churches through at least the 19th century, the resurgence of the wedding veil as a symbol of the bride, and its use even when not required by the bride‟s religion, coincided with societal emphasis on women being modest and wellbehaved. Etiquette books then began to turn the practice into a tradition and the white gown soon became a popular symbol of status that also carried “a connotation of innocence and sexual purity.” The story put out about the wedding veil was that decorous brides were naturally too timid to show their faces in public until they were married. By the end of the 19th century the white dress was the garment of choice for elite brides on both sides of the Atlantic. However, middle-class British and American brides did not adopt the trend fully until after World War II.
With increased prosperity in the 20th century, the tradition also grew to include the practice of wearing the dress only once. In the nineteenth century, it was acceptable that a bride could wear her gown again. Even Queen Victoria had her famous lace wedding dress re-styled for later use. The portrayal of weddings in Hollywood movies, particularly immediately after World War II, helped crystallize and homogenize the white wedding into a normative form. The white wedding style was given another significant boost in 1981, when three-quarter billion people – one out of six people around the globe – watched Charles, Prince of Wales marry Diana Spencer in her elaborate white taffeta dress with a 25-foot-long train. This wedding is generally considered the most influential white wedding of the 20th century. A number of cultures have adopted the traditional Western custom of the white wedding, in which a bride wears a white wedding dress and veil. Within the modern „white wedding‟ tradition, a white dress and veil are unusual choices for a woman‟s second or subsequent wedding. However, the notion that a white gown might symbolize sexual purity has been long abandoned.
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, 1840
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“With this ring I thee wed” The use of a wedding ring has long been part of religious weddings in Europe and America, but the origin of the tradition is unclear. Historians like Vicki Howard point out that belief in the "ancient" quality of the practice are most likely a modern invention. "Double ring" ceremonies are also a modern practice, a groom's wedding band not appearing in the United States until the early 20th century. In several traditions, the best man or maid of honour has the duty of keeping track of a couple's wedding rings and to produce them at the symbolic moment of the giving and receiving of the rings during the traditional marriage ceremony. In more elaborate weddings, a ring bearer (who is often part of the family of the bride or groom) may assist in the ceremonial parading of the rings into the ceremony, often on a special cushion. In older times, the wedding rings were not only a sign of love, but were also linked to the bestowal of 'earnest money'. According to the prayer book of Edward VI: after the words “with this ring I thee wed” follow the words 'This gold and silver I give thee', at which point the groom was supposed to hand a leather purse filled with gold and silver coins to the bride. Historically, the wedding ring was rather connected to the exchange of valuables at the
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Smartphones have become an inseparable part of our daily life: we communicate through them, travel with them, eat with them and do lots of other things using them. As we all know, cellphones can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link while moving around a wide geographic area. In addition to telephony, modern mobile phones also support a wide variety of other services such as SMS, email, Internet access, Bluetooth, business applications, gaming and more. To do that, cell phones use electromagnetic radiation in the microwave range. The enormous increase in mobile phone, especially smartphone, usage throughout the world has initiated numerous studies on its effect on human health. “Cell phone usage and men’s erectile dysfunction: a short communication.” The results of recent study that were published by Badereddin and co–workers in the Central European Journal of Urology present an extremely big interest. The article is titled “Cell phone usage and men‟s erectile dysfunction: a short communication.” Although, the authors themselves confess that the value of this study may be impaired with the small number of participants (there were 30 men involved), it was carefully concluded and very well documented.
Two demographically similar groups of men were questioned: • 20 men suffering from erectile dysfunction diagnosed using the International Index of Erectile Function • 10 men not having any erectile problems Those two groups of men were compared in terms of total talking and carrying time. Erection is a complex process of neurovascular physiological reactions, which can be interfered by many neural, vascular, hormonal, and psychological factors. However, the researcher found that differences between two small studied groups were at the level of significance. It was shown that the total TIME OF EXPOSURE to the radiofrequency emitter is much more important than the DURATION OF CALLS: • The men suffering from erectile dysfunction carried their switched off cellphones in the pockets for 4 and more hours a day. • The men without “men‟s health” problem carried their mobile devices for 2 hours a day or less. The “talking” time was almost the same. So, carry your smartphone far away from the “organ in question”, and use hands–free sets wherever possible – just in case.
Smartphones and thermal effects Thermal effect of microwave radiation is wellunderstood: it happens due to the fact that any dielectric material is heated by rotations of polar molecules induced by the electromagnetic field. If a person uses a cellphone, most of the heating effect will occur at the surface of the head, causing its temperature to increase by a fraction of a degree (similar to obtained during the exposure of the head to direct sunlight). The brain‟s blood circulation is capable of disposing of excess heat by increasing local blood flow. However, the cornea of the eye does not have this temperature regulation mechanism and can cause some health problem. Smartphones and cancer Although many studies showed no increased risk of cancer connected to the cellphone radiation, the International Agency for Research on Cancer classified cellphone radiation as Group 2B – possibly carcinogenic. Smartphones and electromagnetic hypersensitivity Some smartphone users have reported feeling several unspecific symptoms during and after its use; ranging from burning and tingling sensations in the skin of the head and extremities, fatigue, sleep disturbances, dizziness, loss of mental attention, reaction times and memory retentiveness, headaches, tachycardia, to disturbances of the digestive system. Reports have noted that all of these symptoms can also be attributed to stress. A number of researchers have found significant effects on sleep.
To be honest with you, the majority of studies show no definite causative relationship between exposure to smartphones radiofrequency radiation & harmful biological effects in humans. The World Health Organization stated that cell phone use may possibly represent a long-term health risk. So far, there is no direct and clear answer still, mostly because these studies have failed to be replicated. References: • Marcin Słojewski: Cell phones give more benefits than risks, but… Central European Journal of Urology. 2014: 54-55. • Badereddin MA–A, Patzak J, Fishereder K, Pummer K, Shamloul R. Cell phone usage and men’s erectile dysfunction: a short communication. Central European Journal of Urology. 2013, 66: 75–77. • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_radiation_and_health • Moulder JE, Foster KR, Erdreich LS, McNamee JP. Mobile phones, mobile phone base stations and cancer: a review. Int J Radiat Biol. 2005; 81: 189–203. • The Environmental Working Group official website – http://www.ewg.org/
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