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Thanks to smart layering, all the lighter, summery stuff is still fair game, but you also have carte blanche to try the moodier, splashier side of winter dresses: rich velvets, moody jewel tones, stately brocades, eye-catching embellishments

Diane von Furstenberg Fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg is best known for wrap dresses, but for her wedding to Prince Egon von Frstenberg back in 1969, she donned a beautiful laser-cut gown with colourful matching sash and trim

Go all out in a poofy layered tulle princess dress, look sleek and chic in a long gown with silhouette mesh cut-outs, or rock the long two-piece dress trend

Despite these differences in ornamentation, similarities in silhouette existed between the two centuries which made reconstructing a dress from the 1740s possible in the 1840s