The most surprising details hidden in Lady Di's wedding dress
You may think that everything is already written about the most famous wedding dress in history, but we are sure that many of these details will surprise you ...
39 years ago, what is probably the most iconic wedding dress of all time was created: the one that Lady Di wore on the day of her wedding to Prince Charles. That July 29, 1981 marked a before and after in the bridal trends of the time, which saw how this ode to opulence and maximalism became an inspiration for brides and designers around the world. Some practically unknown David and Elisabeth Emanuel (she never wore Chanel for this sad reason) were the creators chosen by Diana Spencer to shape the dress of her dreams (here we show you the most beautiful ones on Instagram), an unforgettable design of which still , almost four decades later, there are details that continue to surprise us.
Diana Spencer met this couple of designers a few months before their wedding, when they made her a blouse that, judging by events, she must have loved because she did not hesitate to choose them to create one of the most famous dresses in the history of the fashion of the last decades. Of course, David had already worked for the royal family, as he began his career with Hardy Amies, designer of Queen Elizabeth II.
"We knew that the dress had to be something that would make history but, at the same time, something that Diana loved," Elisabeth Emanuel has repeatedly declared. Also, when it was held in St. Paul (a huge cathedral), "it had to fill the huge aisle in an impressive way."
Unlike many brides, who start preparing their dress more than a year before the wedding, this process lasted only a few months, but they were weeks of constant changes, arrangements and changes, since Diana did not stop losing weight. The sketch of the dress was destroyed as soon as it was approved by the future Princess of Wales, to avoid leaks, and there was a plan B in case the secret was revealed: a simpler dress with which Lady Di could also have given the 'yes, I want'.
The wedding dress, which surprised everyone by its maximalist aesthetic so opposed to the 'naive' style of Diana Spencer, was made in ivory silk taffeta, and included antique lace details on the neckline and sleeves that belonged to Queen Mary. grandmother of Isabel II, and a heart created with more than ten thousand applications of pearls and sequins embroidered by hand. As if that were not an exaggeration, the Diana of Wales look was finished off with a veil of more than 140 meters of tulle and a 25 meter long train, which made it the longest wedding dress in the history of royalty.
What perhaps few know is that the dress, which arrived wrinkled at St. Paul's Cathedral after the carriage ride of Lady Di and her father, was stained: apparently, nerves played a trick on the bride while she was getting ready and spilled the perfume bottle on her skirt. The precipitate solution from your makeup artist? That he always grabbed the skirt from that part so that no one would see it. And one last and unknown detail: this Victorian-inspired dress with large volumes (the skirt opened so wide thanks to a criolin) hid a secret inside, a lucky horseshoe embroidered in 18-karat gold. And yes, we have also thought that this amulet did not work too much in the marriage formed by Carlos and Diana ...
