black dress midi self-portrait - Flower Lace Puff sleeve and puffy skirt midi dress Midi-Length Black Designer Cocktail Dress

Agnes Stricklands 1840 biography of Queen Victoria backs up Steadman's theory on public perception: Strickland wrote Victoria was dressed on her wedding day "not as a queen in her glittering trappings, but in spotless white, like a pure virgin, to meet her bridegroom." Victoria was not the first to wear a white dress on her wedding day, nor was she even the first royal woman (Mary, Queen of Scots wore white on her wedding day in 1558), but she certainly was the most influential

Black clothing is common but not always required

My only note would be to size down if you prefer a fitted look as the trench is quite oversize

Light weight