Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 354 Foresight

It is said that before Queen Victoria, British brides would not wear white wedding dresses at their weddings, but would choose black, brown, gray and other colors.

Naturally, there are many reasons. It’s not that everyone doesn’t like it, but that white is not practical, so no one dares to choose it. At that time, let alone wedding dresses, other clothes were rarely available in white.

You must know that washing clothes was very difficult at that time. If white clothes were stained with stains, it was difficult to clean them. Even nobles could not afford to wear a piece of clothing only once. After all, the production of wedding dresses was very complicated. The cost of a wedding dress is very high, and nobles can't afford to be extravagant in this matter.

In 1840, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert held their wedding. Queen Victoria chose a white silk dress embellished with exquisite lace, and the white wedding dress became popular all over the world.

It's also a celebrity effect.

When Henry and Lacey got married, Lacey's wedding dress was custom-made from the UK, which is in line with the tradition of the British aristocracy. The tailoring craftsmanship in the UK is indeed very good. The wedding dress is very beautiful. Lacey became a wedding dress The most beautiful woman in the world, this couple has also become a good story.

But Lacey's wedding dress made Lacey suffer a lot.

Queen Victoria's women's clothing style was complicated and gorgeous, and the requirements for "beauty" reached a morbid level.

In this period, the corsets became thinner and thinner, but the skirts became larger and larger. In order to make the skirts look better, panniers were used in the skirts, and the number of petticoats was as many as five or six layers. A wedding dress weighs dozens of catties, so wearing a wedding dress is actually a physical effort.

What is even more speechless is that the aesthetics of this period believed that paleness and weakness were very attractive, so most women used corsets to make themselves look thinner and more curvy. This corset is not a corset It is placed on the chest, but tied on the abdomen, which will make the waist more visible and make a certain part look bigger. In order to pursue visual effects, the corset is getting tighter and tighter. Breathing is inevitable. Some people are even tied The corset strangled the viscera.

So on the streets of London at that time, it was very common for women in dresses to suddenly faint on the side of the road.

What's more, the wedding dresses of this era are not conservative at all. The wedding dress is not a V-neck, nor a one-neck, but a deep-V one-neck. This is indeed a saving of fabric, and it can also feast the eyes of the men attending the wedding , but Roque would not let Phyllis appear at the wedding dressed like this.

According to Philip's intention, he also wanted Phyllis to order a wedding dress from the UK so that Phyllis could appear at the wedding in the most beautiful state.

Phyllis thinks the same way. In Phyllis' opinion, only British tailors can make top-level exquisite wedding dresses.

But this "top-level exquisiteness" depends on who it is for. For women of this era, everything in the UK is the best in the world, but Rock really doesn't like the wedding dresses of this era. After seeing Lacey After the wedding dress, Roque knew that wearing a wedding dress was a very painful thing, so Roque would not let Phyllis suffer this.

So the job of ordering a wedding dress was taken over by Rock.

Rock certainly didn't have time to go to the UK, but Johannesburg also has a lot of talents. Among the Chinese immigrating to Johannesburg, there are many women who are proficient in this skill.

The so-called "magnificence" in this era is to embroider various patterns on the wedding dress with a combination of gold thread, silver thread, crystal, and pearls. The more complex the pattern, the better. texture.

As far as embroidery workers are concerned, it is estimated that the Chinese are the best embroidery workers in the world. If a girl or daughter-in-law in Johannesburg doesn't have enough needlework, it is simply a sign of unvirtuousness, so Rock doesn't have to go to the UK. In Johannesburg, although most women's needlework is only passable, if you look carefully, there are quite a few good embroidery workers.

What's more, there are a group of craftsmen in the Rock Gold Mine itself. Isabella Cotton is not only an excellent designer, but also an excellent tailor herself, so making a wedding dress for Phyllis was naturally accepted by Rock. Give it to "Itno".

Don't forget, this era also has a strong "celebrity effect".

Queen Victoria wore a white wedding dress at her wedding, and white wedding dresses became popular all over the world.

In the Transvaal, a rich and noble lady like Phyllis has the same status as Queen Victoria in the whole world.

So Roque will definitely not let go of such an opportunity. Although it seems a bit inappropriate to link the wedding with business, as long as Phyllis's wedding dress can have a sensational effect, then "Etno" will definitely be well received. sought after.

The style of the wedding dress is determined by Rock himself. Since the wedding dresses of this era are all deep V-necks, Rock will have a lot less scruples in the design, but Rock will definitely not use deep V-necks. V is enough, and it doesn't need to be so deep. Lace is also used on the neckline, so that nothing is actually exposed, and the visual effect is very good.

As for corsets and bustles that are commonly used in this era, Rock directly discarded them. No matter how crowded Phyllis is now, she can't squeeze women who have given birth to three or five children, so the wedding dress only needs to be elegant and romantic. , To play extravagance and beauty, Roque made a fuss about the garland and the tail of the wedding dress.

At Henry's Lacey's wedding, the tail of Lacey's wedding dress was 10 feet long, which is about three meters in metric system. The luxury and beauty of the wedding dress are concentrated in this three-meter space.

The tail of Phyllis’s wedding dress is about 15 feet, and the tail also needs to be embroidered. However, Rock does not use crystals and pearls. Kimberley is rich in diamonds. Stoudemire knew that Rock was going to make a wedding dress for Phyllis, so he contracted it in one go. All the diamonds that will be used in the wedding dress.

How could Rock miss such an opportunity to slaughter Stoudemire, so Phyllis used no less than [-] diamonds in her wedding dress. Fortunately, these diamonds were not big, otherwise Stoudemire would be very distressed.

In addition to the wedding dress, the bride also wears a tiara at the wedding. The crown of this era has not been overused. The crown is not available to ordinary people. Generally, the bride wears a wreath at the wedding.

What Felice wears is also a "wreath", but it is different from ordinary flowers. The flowers Felice wears are all carved with various precious stones. In terms of value, they are much higher than ordinary crowns.

In addition to the wreath, the bride also wears a veil at the wedding. The veil doesn’t matter. It’s very light anyway, so it doesn’t matter how long it is, but it can’t be too long. For the overall effect of the wedding dress, Rock chose a one-meter veil yarn.

The veil is also a work in detail. The small one-meter veil took six of the best embroiderers to embroider for a full month. The edges of the veil are all fine and dense petals. Rock did not use roses that represent Britain. , but uses more oriental jasmine petals.

Speaking of jasmine, many people will immediately think of "Jasmine" in the opera "Turandot". In fact, "Turandot" has not been written yet. As early as 1804, the secretary of the first British ambassador to China Bello published a book "China Travel Notes", which recorded the numbered musical notation of "Jasmine Flower", so at least 100 years before "Turandot" was born, "Jasmine Flower" had already been spread in the world.

I have to say that such a wedding dress is absolutely outstanding in this era, not to mention how good the material used in the wedding dress is, and the design concept is more than one level ahead of this era, let alone Phyllis. Seeing it as a treasure, Karina (Owen's wife) and Lacey felt even more regretful after seeing the wedding dress. Their wedding dress looked good at the time, but it was incomparable to Phyllis' wedding dress.

Not to mention Karina and Lacey, even if Queen Alexandra (wife of Edward V) sees them, she will probably be envious and jealous.

In addition to the wedding dress, Rock was also responsible for choosing the church for the wedding.

As a British baron, Rock's wedding must be Western-style, and the choice of church is very important.

The state religion of England is Protestantism, which didn't seem to be controversial at first. There is also a Protestant church in Bigwig Town, and it is enough for Rock to hold his wedding in the Protestant church.

Father Frank didn't think so.

"My lord, although I don't mean to offend, I also have to say that in the situation in Bigwig Town, it is more appropriate to hold a wedding in a Catholic church." Frank found Roque early, hoping to personally preside over Roque and Roque in his own church. Phyllis' wedding.

"Why?" Rock really didn't know where Frank's confidence came from.

"Because of the situation in Bigwig Town, my lord, you have to know that Bigwig Town is a multi-racial town. There are not only Chinese here, but also Boers, Germans, French, and even pure Englishmen. , so why choose Protestantism? Nobody goes to Protestant churches usually." Frank tried to persuade Rock to change his mind with his three-inch tongue.

"Frank, I'm an English baron. If I don't hold my wedding in a Protestant church, what do you think of others?" Rock didn't want to cause trouble, and there was no need to cause trouble on a happy day.

Others don't say that Adelaide and Philip will definitely attend Roque's wedding. If Adelaide and Philip find that Roque is not getting married in a Protestant church, then Adelaide and Philip will definitely have problems with Roque.

Relatively speaking, the opinions of the residents of Bigwig Town really don't matter.

However, there are really few British residents in Bigwig Town. According to statistics from the Bigwig Town government last month, there are already 6500 permanent residents in Bigwig Town, and there are less than [-] purely British. This situation really makes Rock helpless.

It's not that Rock doesn't want the British to come to Bigwig Town, on the contrary, Rock still welcomes them very much, but the problem of the small number of British isn't just in Bigwig Town, it's the same in the whole of southern Africa.

"Lord, the Transvaal will be self-governing sooner or later—" Frank said surprisingly.

Rock really didn't expect that many officials in the Transvaal were not as far-sighted as a German priest.

(End of this chapter)