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Real Weddings / A Black and White Wedding in Charleston, SC prev next The flower girls donned white dresses with tulle skirts and black satin bows with a floral detail, keeping with the black and white theme

Fashion and society would look completely different if the Victorian era happened at a different moment in history

It is appropriately sparkling and filled with bows and tiaras

While Emily is writing in the early 1920s, at the end of the era of tea gowns (the earliest tea gowns date to the mid 1870s, the latest to the early 1930s), many of the characteristics of tea gowns that she describes hold true for the entire history of tea gowns

This ribbed-knit sweater dress has a boatneck fit up top that can be elegantly draped off one shoulder if you like, and a slit that goes up just high enough without feeling too scandalous