What does a vintage stylist wear on her wedding day?

What does a vintage stylist wear on her wedding day? Why, her mum’s dress of course. Irene O’Brien on why she wore her mum’s gown walking up the aisle

One unremarkable spring day some years back, I was helping my mum with a big clear-out of her house. Amidst the one-eyed dolls, long-silenced radios and dog-eared school projects all lined up for review, appeared a once-white cardboard box.

“Have a look inside,” urged my mum. Under the lid I found layers of aged tissue paper enveloping her beautiful wedding dress - the dress that I had only ever seen frozen in black and white imagery.