_Eastern Massachusetts._
ATTIRE OF THE BRIDE.
332. If you try on your wedding dress before the ceremony, you will not
be happy.
_Cambridge, Mass._
333. The bride should wear a borrowed garter, and also a yellow garter.
_Boston, Mass._
334. If a bride wear a yellow garter tied on by a girl friend, the latter
will be married inside the year.
_Eastern Massachusetts._
335. The bride should wear
Something old,
Something new,
Something borrowed,
And something blue.
_Very common._
336. Wear no black at a wedding; it foretells ill luck.
_Massachusetts._
337. To be married in a brown dress is good luck; black is bad.
_Bathurst, N.B._
338. To be married in anything but white garments indicates bad luck for
the bride, white being emblematical of innocence.
They say that white is a heavenly hue.
Another has added,
It may be so, but the sky is blue.
_Massachusetts._
339. White is emblematical of holiness and truth. Blue is emblematical of
peace and security; bright green of true learning, as being the uniform
clothing of nature.
_Maine and Massachusetts._
340. A bride must not look in the glass after her toilet is complete,
_i.e._, she must add a glove or some article after leaving the mirror.
_Maine and Massachusetts._
341. It is bad luck for a bride to keep any of the pins that she used
when she was married.
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