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"When you look at the work that's gone into a dress like Gertrude's, like all those buttons down the front, the only designers who replicate that today are couture, which means it's very, very expensive." Ms Cafagna said it made her feel sad to think someone had discarded the whole package in a skip

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Ivory or white for the bride is so well established now, it is hard to believe that the tradition is but 173 years old before Queen Victoria, white was not the conventional colour