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The colour of wedding dresses in the late Middle Ages. The list of expenses for the wedding of Endres Im Hoff in the year 1518 September 13th) in Nürnberg states that he bought yellow cloth Ittem ein gelbs stück samlot fur mein weib 12 list fl 8 The cloth cost the very high price of 8 Empirial guilders. for his wife. The very detailed "Hochzeitsbüchlein" the official rule book for all weddings in Nuremberg, do not state any colour for a wedding dress. They only forbid that the people dress up in the same colour. Only the groom was allowed to cloth one servant in the colour he wore on the wedding day. All this points to the fact that the colour f the wedding dresses was not important for the government of Nuremberg. Volker Schier %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%