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* ''Series/{{Glee}}'': Subverted with Quinn's dress for the chastity ball--it's obviously white to symbolize her virginal purity, but she's very uncomfortable in it, since she's not only not a virgin, but pregnant.
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* In the ''Literature/VitaNuova'', Beatrice is seen dressed in pure white when she first greets [[Creator/DanteAlighieri Dante]], a moment surrounded by assurances of her benevolence and predestined beatitude in Heaven. The next time Beatrice is seen in white is five years later when a white veil shroud her corpse after her soul was taken by a legion of angels to {{Heaven}}.
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* In the ''Literature/VitaNuova'', ''Literature/LaVitaNuova'', Beatrice is seen dressed in pure white when she first greets [[Creator/DanteAlighieri Dante]], a moment surrounded by assurances of her benevolence and predestined beatitude in Heaven. The next time Beatrice is seen in white is five years later when a white veil shroud her corpse after her soul was taken by a legion of angels to {{Heaven}}.
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[[NunsNRosaries When you were counting on your Rosary]].
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* ''Literature/WagonsWest'': Discussed in ''California!''. With Melissa having been a famous courtesan during the height of the gold rush, it would be seen as a travesty if she wore white and thus wore a different color. So as not to embarrass her, her friend who was to be married at the same ceremony as her chose to not wear white as well.
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* Jane on ''Series/GoodGirlsRevolt'' wants to be this. [[spoiler:When she’s drunk with Patti, she shouts that she won’t get married in a white dress –- letting Patti know that she slept with her neighbour.]] Cindy also mentions that she was a virgin when she got married.
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* Jane on ''Series/GoodGirlsRevolt'' wants to be this. [[spoiler:When she’s drunk with Patti, she shouts that she won’t won’t get married in a white dress –- letting Patti know that she slept with her neighbour.]] Cindy also mentions that she was a virgin when she got married.
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** Likewise, nuns are usually pictured with dark habits, but many wear white instead.
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* In ''Breaking Dawn'' of the ''Literature/{{Twilight}} Saga'', Bella is a virgin in white on her wedding day, because Edward was too gentlemanly to have sex with her beforehand.
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* In ''Breaking Dawn'' ''Literature/BreakingDawn'' of the ''Literature/{{Twilight}} Saga'', ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'', Bella is a virgin in white on her wedding day, because Edward was too gentlemanly to have sex with her beforehand.
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May overlap with EtherealWhiteDress if the character died innocent or at a young age.
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This is of course the basis of the BloodSplatteredWeddingDress trope.
Compare GoldAndWhiteAreDivine, WhiteIsPure, and TrueBlueFemininity.
Contrast with the LadyInRed (a polar opposite, more associated with lust) and WidowsWeeds (black and dark clothes associated with widowhood).
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Contrast with the LadyInRed (a polar opposite, more associated with lust) and WidowsWeeds (black and dark clothes associated with widowhood).
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Subtrope of WhiteIsPure. This is of course the basis of the BloodSplatteredWeddingDress trope.
trope. Compare GoldAndWhiteAreDivine, WhiteIsPure, GoldAndWhiteAreDivine and TrueBlueFemininity.
TrueBlueFemininity. May overlap with EtherealWhiteDress if the character died innocent or at a young age. Contrast with the LadyInRed (a polar opposite, more associated with lust) and WidowsWeeds (black and dark clothes associated with widowhood).
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** Barbara Gilbert also wears a beautiful white dress to marry Tom Hereward, though in her case instead of a veil she wears a white Alice band and a gorgeous white cloak. (She's also definitely a virgin, being a vicar's daughter marrying a reverend.)
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In Abrahamic cultures (Jewish, Christian, and Muslim), white symbolizes purity, thus the classic virgin wears a dress that's as pure as she is. In older times and still today in some cultures, any unmarried woman was supposedly expected to remain chaste, so she could be identified by the color she was wearing. (But see the Real Life section below.) This color-coding is traditional for [[BreadEggsMilkSquick a bride on her wedding day, a débutante at her coming-out party, and the]] VirginSacrifice. TheIngenue might very well wear white for the virginal symbolism, while an EthicalSlut might do so for irony, or to emphasize the "ethical" aspect. The idea might be present even in a modern setting because of characters being notably religious, or a sense of OldSchoolChivalry being restored.
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In Abrahamic cultures (Jewish, Christian, and Muslim), [[WhiteIsPure white symbolizes purity, purity]], thus the classic virgin wears a dress that's as pure as she is. In older times and still today in some cultures, any unmarried woman was supposedly expected to remain chaste, so she could be identified by the color she was wearing. (But see the Real Life section below.) This color-coding is traditional for [[BreadEggsMilkSquick a bride on her wedding day, a débutante at her coming-out party, and the]] VirginSacrifice. TheIngenue might very well wear white for the virginal symbolism, while an EthicalSlut might do so for irony, or to emphasize the "ethical" aspect. The idea might be present even in a modern setting because of characters being notably religious, or a sense of OldSchoolChivalry being restored.
