Wedding dress of Princess Anne

The Wedding dress of Princess Anne was the wedding dress worn by The Princess Anne at her first marriage to Mark Phillips on 14 November 1973, at Westminster Abbey. The dress was designed by Maureen Baker, who was chief designer for the ready-to-wear label Susan Small and had previously designed costumes for Anne.[1]

The dress was an embroidered "Tudor-style" wedding dress with a high collar and "mediaeval sleeves".[2] The train was embroidered by Lock's Embroiderers.[3] Anne was said to have designed many aspects of the dress herself.[4] Compared to previous royal wedding dresses, it was described as "simplistic" and was noted as being close to contemporary 1970s wedding fashions.[5][6]


References

  1. ↑ Ostler, Catherine (27 April 2011). "By royal disappointment?". London: Daily Mail.
  2. ↑ "On this day...1973: Crowds cheer marriage of Princess Anne". bbc.co.uk. 14 November 1973. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
  3. ↑ Nina Grunfeld, The Royal Shopping Guide (W. Morrow, 1984)
  4. ↑ Anne Matheson, Princess Anne: a royal girl of our time (Crown Publishers, 1973)
  5. ↑ Alfred J. López, Postcolonial whiteness: a critical reader on race and empire (SUNY Press, 2005) 49
  6. ↑ Catherine Woram, Wedding dress style: the indispensable style-file for brides-to-be (Apple, 1993), 46