一名英國新娘阿比蓋爾 (Abigail Kingston) 在結婚時身上所穿的婚紗可是大有來頭,這可不是件隨便到婚紗店挑選的婚紗,而是他們家代代相傳了好幾位新娘、輪到她已經是第11位穿上這件婚紗的新娘了,算一算這套婚紗的年齡還高達了120歲。
![heirloom-wedding-dress-11th-bride-120-years-old-abigail-kingston-11](http://teepr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/560642b15b234.jpg)
第一位穿上這件婚紗的人是在1895年出嫁的瑪麗 (Mary Lowry Warren,下圖)。
![For the past 70 or so years, there's been a tradition among the women of her family to wed in her great-great-grandmother Mary Lowry Warren's dress from her 1895 wedding.](http://teepr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/560642b1b483c.jpg)
Abby Kingston
上一位則是阿比蓋爾的母親萊斯利 (Leslie Kingston,下圖),於1991年結婚。
![Kingston first saw the dress in person at her aunt Ann Ogden's wedding in 1991.](http://teepr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/560642b1e2c9c.jpg)
不過這間傳承上百年的婚紗也不是完全沒有問題,當她拿到婚紗的時候,上頭其實泛黃又有不少破損。不過所幸在專家200個小時的搶救後,又能讓婚紗重回當年華麗的樣貌。
![heirloom-wedding-dress-11th-bride-120-years-old-abigail-kingston-10](http://teepr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/560642b2ebf09.jpg)
她也表示,在她小時候,她就看到照片中有許多不同新娘穿上同一套婚紗,所以也讓她想著有一天自己也會穿上。
![The tradition actually took 50 years to start because Lowry's own daughters had no interest in wearing the dress.](http://teepr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/560642b327997.jpg)
第二位穿上這套婚紗的新娘:於1946年結婚的簡 (Jane Woodruff)。
這套婚紗在傳承到不同時代時,也經歷了大小幅度的剪裁調整,呈現出不同的造型。
![When her mother finally tracked down the dress at her great-aunt's house in Vermont, they found a disintegrating garment that showed a half-century's worth of alterations.](http://teepr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/560642b3568eb.jpg)
上圖為1986年結婚的簡 (Jane Ogden)。
阿比蓋爾即將在下個月結婚,對於能重新穿上這套傳承上百年的婚紗,她覺得非常夢幻,說自己好像是灰姑娘一樣。
![After five dress fittings over nearly six months, Kingston described stepping into the finished gown as "very surreal."](http://teepr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/560642b385285.jpg)
Abby Kingston
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好有故事的一套婚紗呀!感覺像是傳承了每一段感情最美好的部分,一路到了今天。希望穿上這套禮服結婚,未來都可以非常美滿呀!
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