The dress set wedding fashion trends after the wedding. The Emanuels also created a parasol in a matching taffeta to be used by Diana in case the wedding day turned out to be rainy. ĭiana also had a spare wedding dress, which would have acted as a stand-in if the dress' design was revealed before her big day. This accounted for the visible wrinkles in the wedding gown when she arrived at the cathedral. They found it difficult to fit inside the glass coach, and the train was badly crushed despite Diana's efforts. According to writer Andrew Morton, in Diana: Her True Story, the gown's designers realized too late that they had forgotten to allow for the train's length in relation to the size of the glass coach Diana and her father rode in to the ceremony. The twenty-five-foot train posed problems. Even the seamstress was concerned about her weight loss and feared the dress might not fit as it should. Ī replica of the dress at West Edmonton Mall, in Edmonton, Canada, in 2013įittings of the dress posed difficulties because Diana had developed bulimia and dropped from a size 14 to a size 10 in the months leading up to the wedding. The dress featured "lace flounces adorning neckline and sleeves". In contrast, the wedding dress of Catherine Middleton, for her marriage to Prince William, Diana's elder son, incorporated motifs cut from machine-made lace appliquéd to silk net. A petite blue bow was also sewn into the interior of the gown's waistband as her " something blue". The lace used to trim it was antique and hand-made and a square of Carrickmacross lace which had belonged to Queen Mary was attached to the gown. An 18-karat gold horseshoe was stitched into the petticoats as a sign of good fortune. The gown was decorated with hand embroidery, sequins, and 10,000 pearls, centering on a heart motif. One observer wrote "the dress was a crinoline, a symbol of sexuality and grandiosity, a meringue embroidered with pearls and sequins, its bodice frilled with lace". The Emanuels consulted Maureen Baker, who had made the first wedding dress of Princess Anne, during their construction of the gown. The woven silk taffeta was made by Stephen Walters of Suffolk. Diana personally selected the designers to make her wedding dress because she was fond of a chiffon blouse they designed for her formal photo session with Lord Snowdon. The dress was designed by David and Elizabeth Emanuel, who described it as a dress that "had to be something that was going to go down in history, but also something that Diana loved", and which would be "suitably dramatic in order to make an impression".
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