Why do some women have sex before marraige and when they get married they where a white gown that symbolized pureity even though they are not a virgin anymore? Is it just a traditional color or does it have meaning?
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Several reasons: The first is that it's tradition. Women wear a white gown because that's what most people wear to weddings, and they don't care to advertise their sexual relationships to their great aunt Ida who came down to see them get hitched. Also, a white gown was NOT originally meant to symbolize purity or virginity. It was intended to symbolize wealth -- specifically, Queen Victoria's wealth. She was the one who started the white dress trend, and she did it because it was extravagant. Consider: they did not have dress cleaners or dry cleaners (or, frankly, any method of getting out stains without hurting delicate fabric), so wearing a white dress demonstrated to one and all that she could afford to have a dress made that she could only wear once. Since Queen Victoria did it, other wealthy women of status did so as well. Eventually it became more common to do so. It wasn't until much later that the bit about purity came into the picture. My guess is that since in this culture, we associate white with purity, people simply assumed that was why brides wore white.
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I believe some women have sex before marriage because they have been raised that there is nothing wrong with that. Not everyone has religious convictions. Also, many women have been in other relationships, prior to thier marriage, possible very serious relationships that they felt they wanted to be sexually active in. I think most women wear white because it's thier first marriage, it's traditional and expected. It's rare in this day an age to find a virgin bride. Are all women supposed to get married in red or black because they've had sexual intercourse? No, of course not...
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you ASSUME that those non-virgins who wear white on their wedding day are doing so to symbolize purity, when there's no way we can know that...we'd have to ask each of them if they are even thinking of purity also, what makes a person who does a very natural/human thing like having sex un-pure? I dont understand this rational
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I think it's just the traditional American thing to do. White has lost its role as the color of purity since the 1500's when the whole white dress thing began. People don't think of it that way anymore; besides nobody should have the right to tell the bride what to wear for her special day based on her private history. It's none of their business.
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Is THAT why they wear white? I always thought it was because all domestic appliances are white :-)
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