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What Is Homestead Aquaponic Farming System?
Aquaponics food production is a type of farming system that may be just what the world needs. Different from traditional cultivation in many ways, this may be the solution to the imminent global food crisis and looming hunger in developing countries. How does it work, and what are its benefits?
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How to Start Snail Farming and Rearing at Home
Rearing snails at home is easy. This snail-farming guide covers how to create an indoor or outdoor snailery, feeding, breeding, the nutritional value of snails, and more.
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Common Interior Design FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
Adopting the do-it-yourself approach to simple interior design tasks saves a lot of money, is fulfilling, and gives the satisfaction of achieving a tough feat. But, it can also be challenging. Find out what people want to know about interior design, including the most common FAQs and answers.
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Project Managers in the Building Construction and Interior Design Industries
In the building industry, a project manager must have the ability to collaborate and work harmoniously with clients, team members, and contractors. But it goes beyond that. What are the golden rules project managers must follow to ensure they complete projects in a timely and professional manner?
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Indoor Vertical Garden: Interior Wall Plants
What is an indoor vertical garden and what are the benefits of having one of these plant walls installed in your home? Find out what they are, why it's great to have one, and how to use them to enhance your interior space.
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Effects of Interior Lightning on the Colours of Internal Walls
Using interior design concepts, find out how lighting can have an effect on the colour of interior walls.
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Effects of Interior Lighting on Interior Décor Colours
Has it ever occurred to you that interior lighting can affect the décor colours you choose for your interior design scheme? From your furniture to your finishes, don’t be surprised if the colour you thought was red turns out to appear burgundy under the effect of different indoor lights.
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Interior Design Niche: Lighting Design
Why does lighting design play a major role in interior design, and why is a lighting plan an important part of an interior designer’s proposal? Find out why lights and lighting are important, and how they are integral parts of any interior design concept.
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13 Must-Add Clauses to Interior Design Contract Agreements
Many interior designers overlook the importance of a solid contract agreement, depending on verbal or friendly handshake agreements. In this article, I show you what you need to create an airtight contract to protect you and your business.
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Building Construction: Ways Project Managers Charge
Are you a project manager offering freelance project management services but unsure how best to charge your clients for the services you render? Well, this guide will help you. In it, you will find out about project managers' fee structures in the building industry. One will certainly work for you.
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How to Apply Micro-Ring Hair Extensions
This step-by-step guide tells how to apply micro-ring hair extensions, the latest technique in hair fixing. Find out about these fabulous extensions and see why most women are glad they can now install hair extensions without hair damage, using messy adhesives, or enduring cumbersome stitching.
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How to Fix Pre-Taped Hair Extensions
Pre-taped hair extensions are fabulous if you require a quick-fix hairstyle and barely have the time to visit a hair salon. DIY to add length, volume, or colour highlights in less than 30 minutes. This is your opportunity to change your hairstyle as often as you wish, daily or weekly if you desire.
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How to Fix Clip-in Hair Extensions
Clip-in hair extensions are one of the easiest hair attachments to fix by yourself. They serve as a quick-fix measure to create a great hairstyle for the day or an evening out by giving you longer and fuller hair with color highlights too. Find out how you can easily fix these clip-ins by yourself.
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Interior Design: Ethnic Bedroom Style
The interior design of ethnic bedrooms is not restricted to African or Native American design themes but rather fashioned after cultural and traditional interior decor from many regions of the world. From artworks, textures, colours, and interior accents, the ethnic decor is often termed ‘exotic’.
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Bedroom Design Ideas: Bedroom Themes for Men
A man’s bedroom should be attractively strong, organized & uncomplicated. No frills; no fuss; just pure simplicity that makes the room stylish, comfortable, & charming. A man’s bedroom shouldn't be set up like some showroom display; it must be unique & characteristic of its occupant.
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7 Homemade Recipes for Skin Exfoliation: Face and Body Scrubs
Exfoliating scrubs made at home are some of the best skin care treatment recipes for body and skin exfoliation. Learn how to prepare simple scrubbing and buffing mixtures with products found right in your home.
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Film-Making: Cinematography Tips for Driving Scenes
Up and coming cinematographers and filmmakers who wish to shoot low-budget vehicle driving scenes will find this article with basic tips on filmmaking involving driving scenes quite helpful.
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Home Recording Studio Setup: Lighting Basics
To set up a recording studio, you need a clear perspective of the basics of studio lighting that is vital for a home studio set up. You need these basics, not only to control the quality of your studio lights but to ensure your recording works turn out a huge success.
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How to Set Up a Home Recording Studio
Setting up a home recording studio is easy and affordable (if you have a tight budget) but there are some things that must be done in preparation, so you build a home studio that’s efficient and professional.
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Outdoor Lights: Patio Lighting Guide
To make your patio and outdoor space attractive and enjoyable, design its lighting around your furniture styles and recreational needs. This guide about outdoor lighting will show you how.
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Small Pools, Patio Ponds, and Fountains for Outdoor Rooms and Spaces
Adding ponds or fountains to outdoor rooms and patios is mostly for its pleasing sights, soothing sounds, and overall aesthetic qualities, while at the same time, serving as a focal point.
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Outdoor Flooring: 7 Patio Floor Ideas
Patio flooring can be made with any material ranging from faux grass and wood to terracotta bricks and texture natural stone. Deciding on which to incorporate into an outdoor room depends not only on durability and sustainability, but on beauty and aesthetics too.
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Patio Covers: Shades, Roofs, and Canopies
With patio covers, there are many types to consider, so, before you go out to purchase patio covering materials, it is good to know the choices available, and the one that will work best for your outdoor living space.
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Screened Patio Enclosures
Patio screens are privacy partitions, outdoor space dividers, or vertical structures used to partially enclose patios. Made from diverse materials in different configurations, they are an essential part of patio designs. Find out here about different types and designs.
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Shabby Chic Bathrooms
There are fast, simple, and inexpensive ways to give your bathroom a shabby chic theme, so, if you plan to upgrade your bathroom on a shoestring budget, without compromising on style, go the shabby chic way. Find out how to achieve this.
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ICS Learn: Distance Learning Courses at International Correspondence Schools
ICS Learn offers distance learning courses for students in over a hundred countries all over the world. With an enrolment of thousands of students, long-distance learning at correspondence schools is like studying in a traditional school, but in the comfort of your home. Earn your degree from home.
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Types of Interior Design Services and How to Get Professional Interior Design Advice
The interior design industry has several top-earning specialized fields. Good job opportunities remain mostly for interior designers with a specialization.
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Pros and Cons of Attending Distance Education Colleges
Today, distance education is getting to be a popular way to attend school. Now that the trend is expanding to many top colleges, anyone from anywhere can now enrol at an online school to obtain anything from a diploma to a PhD.
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Plus-Size Modelling: Swimsuits and Lingerie
There are several agencies scouting for big, fat, and tall women to model plus-size clothing like lounge wear, intimate apparel, swimsuits, and lingerie. But there are standards to be met to be successful for a sign-up. In this article, you can find out what is required.
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Small Space Decorating Tips: Alcoves, Niches, and Wall Recesses
Small spaces like niches, alcoves, dead-ends, and other room recesses have a lot of design potentials. So, don’t ignore that "dead, unused space" in your home. Turn it into a delightful interior feature. You’ll find some ideas in this article, including small space decorating tips.
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Contemporary Water Features: Indoor Water Fountains
Water features like fountains and waterfalls serve more than aesthetic and decorative purposes. They are therapeutic, bring occupants good luck, and encourage positivity when you have them indoors. They not only calm and soothe your mind, but they also add to the ambience of your interior space.
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Floor Plans for Small Homes
Find out reasons why it's best to buy your house plans online if you intend to build a modest, beautiful home.
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Ready-Made Window Treatments: Honeycomb Blinds
Honeycomb window blinds are popular for two main reasons. They are decorative and aesthetically pleasing. And they are energy efficient because they are made to trap air, providing natural insulation that helps you save on energy costs.
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Acne Skincare: Benefits of Exfoliation
By exfoliating your face on a regular basis, you are getting one of the best forms of treatment for acne-prone skin. This simple skin-care treatment is essential if you have blemishes on your face.
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New House Floor Plans: Finding Your Dream Home Design
Do you plan to build a house from scratch, renovate, or upgrade your home design? Do you desire an interior layout that complements your lifestyle & satisfies your needs? If yes, this article is for you. You will find design inspirations that open your mind to ideas you can build on.
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Window Treatments: Bamboo Window Shades
Bamboo window shades and blinds are great window treatments if you desire a modern theme for your room's decor. Warm, streamlined, and attractive, this style is the preferred choice of many interior designers and decorators. But what, really, are its most attractive qualities and features?
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Eco-Friendly Flooring Material: Bamboo Wood
There are several types of bamboo wood flooring materials in both solid and engineered wood categories, each with its own unique quality, benefits, and beauty. Which type will work best for you and how should you care for your bamboo wood floor?
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6 Must-Have Hand Tools to Make Dollhouse Furniture
A dollhouse without miniature furniture is an uncompleted project, as far as miniatures enthusiasts are concerned. To make miniature dollhouse furniture is a skilful art on its own. If you build mini furniture or plan to start it as a hobby, find out the must-have mini-furniture tools you need.
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Miniature Collectibles: Houses With Furniture
Miniature homes with tiny furniture, décor and people will always remain a collector’s delight. Asides from being treasured collectibles, miniatures are part of a major cottage industry. Take a look at why these tiny pieces of traditional and modern art are so attractive.
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Wall Hanging Ideas for Artworks, Pictures, and Paintings
In this guide, you will learn tips for hanging artwork, different picture hanging ideas, the do’s and don’ts of hanging art, and other variations to consider.
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7 Ways Interior Designers Charge for Interior Design Services
What's the best way to charge for your interior designer services? Explore seven different ways to bill your clients.
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Painting Tips and Techniques for Home Painters and Decorators
Painters and decorators work on residential and commercial projects. In this article, you will learn about special painting and decorating effects, how to apply them, including additional tips to guide you, if you decide to DIY. Find out how to translate your interior spaces into works of art.
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Valuable Collectibles: Dolls Houses for Grownups
Traditional cabinet houses, also known as miniature homes represent choice dollhouses owned by the wealthy and noble women of the past. Not created for kids to play with, they served more as proud showpieces that only the rich could afford.
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Barbie Dolls Houses: 3-Storey Home with Elevator
Tagged the “Best Realistic House”, the three-storey barbie dolls houses have plenty of spaces to play in. Best for older kids than the under-tens, this wonderful townhouse is built with real sound effects, working lights, an operating pink elevator, and true-to-life house decorations & accessories.
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Making Rag Dolls Hair With Yarn, Rags, or Mohair
Hair gives ragdolls unique personality and character. Learn what materials and techniques you can use to create a distinguishing hairdo for a handmade doll.
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Great Gifts for the Orphanage: Rag Doll Toys
It is easy and fun to make rag doll toys. You don’t need not be creative or skilful to make one. Find out how to make these cuddly, washable, and soft toys, and how you can make them as gifts, for the less privileged, as a business venture, or just for the plain fun of it.
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Vintage Style Clothing: Signature of Bold and Daring Women
Vintage style clothing and fashion accessories are the epitome of classic old-style fashion. If you are a die-hard vintage fashion enthusiast or wish to create a new fashion signature, a vintage-inspired way of dressing will make you uncommon, unique, and fabulously sophisticated.
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1950s Vintage Apparel for Curvaceous Women
Vintage apparel styles of the 1950s woman has returned to a wider embrace of both vintage fashion enthusiasts and women who love that sophisticated look of the styles of over six decades ago. What were the most popular styles of the time and how can you incorporate those styles in today’s fashion?
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Must-Have Skincare Product for Oily Skin: Facial Oil Blotting Papers
Millions of people have oily skin, so how can we keep our faces fresh, clean and oil-free all day long? Here, you'll learn how to get rid of unsightly shine with blotting papers so you can look fresh all day.
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Vintage Handbags. Popular Classic Bags of the 20th Century (With Pictures)
Designs of ladies’ bags and purses of the early to mid-20th century remain unique vintage handbag styles till today. From embroidered bags to Lucite purses, bag designs of the period are so popular, they are now being replicated. So, which of these cherished fashion accessories are back in vogue?
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Women's Fashion Trends: 1950s to 1990s Clothing
The hot fashion trends of the 20th Century may appear to have been relegated to the archives of history, but some of the fabulous clothing of the time are now reappearing on the fashion scene as vintage-inspired styles.
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How to Apply Ceramic Tile Grout (DIY)
Most DIY home repair enthusiasts can apply ceramic tile grout. It isn't as hard as many may think. If you are just learning how to grout or need a few tips to help you along, this article will give you grouting tips, tell you what you need to carry out the task and how to maintain your grout works.
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Fashionably Fat Female Models Pursuing a Plus-Size Modeling Career
Fashionably fat females are the new ‘conventional’ models and a career in plus-size modelling is now a common prospect for curvaceous women.
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Ancient Games: How to Play Mancala Game
The origins of Mancala games is in Ancient Africa. Contrary to popular belief that this game of wits is one particular game, it is not. Rather, there are hundreds of variants of the game. Find out the different genres of mancala board games, their origins, and how to play the game.
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Online Classes: BA Interior Design Course
If you already have a Diploma in Interior Design studies, you might want to upgrade yourself and your design career status by going for a BA degree in interior design, as an online student.
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Distance Learning: HND Interior Design Course
With a Higher National Diploma in interior design (HND), you will be able to work on a wide variety of residential projects that will earn you good revenue and guarantee you success in your career as an interior designer.
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Interior Design and Interior Architecture Services
What is the difference between an interior designer and an interior architect? Find out how they differ.
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Career and Job Opportunities in the Interior Design Industry
Employment and career opportunities abound in the interior design industry, but many new interior designers and interior design students are not fully aware of this. If you are looking for employment or desire to start your own career path as a professional designer, explore your options.
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Design Software for your Bathroom Remodeling Ideas
3D virtual bathroom design software; an easy to use CAD program, is great for simple bathroom design tasks like planning and remodelling. Create stunning bathrooms styles with a 3D room planner.
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Vintage-Inspired Winter Bridal Gowns (With Pictures)
The vintage ‘weddings in winter’ is no longer a new trend. It has been going on for a few years but it continues to generate a lot of interest to many about-to-be-wed couples.
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Applying Makeup to Acne-Prone Skin
Applying makeup to an acne-prone skin is not as difficult as you may think but you must understand your skin's condition, know what makeup you need and know how to "apply to conceal."
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How to Walk Gracefully in Spiked and High-Heeled Shoes
For an ‘unstoppable’ show of femininity; taller gait, an illusion of a flat stomach, and slimmer legs a 'mile long', spiked shoes is it. But how do you 'stride' in style without tripping over?
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Fashion Design: Haute Couture 1900s to 1930s
Fashion design in its real sense emerged in the mid-19th century and was pioneered by Charles Frederick Worth, father of haute couture. Before then, unknown dressmakers and tailors were designers and makers of women's fashionable clothing. Find out what the beginnings of true fashion design were.
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Fashion Design: Clothes From the Mid-20th Century (1940s to 1960s)
The depression of the 1930s and austere times of the 1940s made fashion design plain, unexciting, and almost non-existent. But by the 1950s, style returned. Women’s clothes became chic, colourful, and feminine, and hemlines reduced. A decade later in the 1960s, the mini style became an item.
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Clothing Design Software for People Who Seek to Realize their Fashion Design Dreams
As a clothing design student or a beginner fashion designer, there are some basic software programs that are must-haves. Using CAD tools can help expand your skills, grow your creative dimensions, and develop your personal style.
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Homestead Aquaculture Fish Farming: How to Breed Fish at Home
Homestead aquaculture, a modern but simple technique of fish farming, is growing rapidly in developing countries. Also known as sustainable fish farming, it is a great way to ensure a healthy fish diet for millions of people around the world. Find out about homestead fish farms and how to start one.
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Antique Wedding Veils: Blend Traditions of the Past with Modern Bridal Wears
Two centuries after, today’s bridal veil styles are much different from what brides wore in the very early 1800s. Find out about antique and vintage wedding veil styles spanning 170 years of bridal wear.
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Acne, Self-Esteem, and Self-Confidence
Acne and its scars can have a negative effect on our self-esteem. For many, acne alters lifestyle choices and how they socialize. If acne is affecting your general outlook on life, this article will give you tips on how not to let your condition affect your self-esteem.
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Game Art and Design Industry: Concept Artist Jobs
For a concept artist in the game art and design industry, there are specific job categories to specialise in, job openings associated with visual development, animation production, video game design, character design, and invention.
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Use Old Clothes Creatively. Make A Rag Area Rug
People have been making rag area rugs for centuries, as far back as the 17th to 18th century. Today, there is a renewed interest in its creation and you too can crochet with fabric strips cut from old clothes or discarded sheets.
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DIY: Preparation and Installation of Floating Hardwood Floors
Installing floating hardwood floors by yourself (DIY) is not that hard as long as you read and carefully follow the step-by-step manufacturers' manuals and instructions.
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Kids Are Making Money Online Testing New Video Games
Working online as a video game tester is one way a great number of teenagers make money online. It is said to be one job that a large majority of kids and young males in the world would love to get.
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Kids Can Earn Money Online as Well
We should encourage kids to earn money online to pay for the extra things they desire and earn some pocket money on the side. So, how can kids earn online and what is the best way to start? Find out what jobs kids can do on and offline.
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Sudoku, and the Benefits of Playing a Numbers Game
Sudoku game is beneficial to our brain functions. Played by the young and elderly, this numbers game can make players become addicted, but it is an addiction that can be said to be a positive one. Find out why.
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Classic Traditional Board, Dice, and Card Games
This article is about the old games, pre-21st Century board games, traditional dice games, and the classic card games popularly played in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Let’s go down memory lane and play some of them once again.
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600 Years of Wedding Gowns (1300s to 1900s)
Have you ever wondered what the bridal wear of ancient times was like? Did wedding gowns come formal, informal, or both? How far back have bridal attires created specifically for nuptials been in existence, and are some of today’s styles throwbacks?