Looks like overblown weddings that send people into the poorhouse are not just a phenomenon limited to our generation. Here is the tale of a young woman who gets married and soon afterwards her poor dad is slapped with a bill for:
"A variety of silk and other dresses, petticoats, jackets, mantles, vails, headdresses, embroideries, trimmings, laces and an immense variety of other things...There was also certain mysterious devices called "dress protectors" to be used on going to India. All these things the enterprising young lady had ordered through an extensive personal correspondence with the London mantua maker and without the trifling formality of a consultation with her parents..."
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