I have mostly been to frum weddings, with only three weddings in my life that were for non-observant relatives. I started attending weddings as a young adult in the early 1970s. ALL the women wore gowns. What you and I call a gown might differ, but any ankle/floor length dressy occasion dress is a gown. If it is a shorter length dressy dress, it is called a cocktail dress (stupid name). My Bubby, who was as tsniusdig a rebbetzin as they come, wore a floor length navy blue gown to my parents’ wedding, a VERY long time ago. Some were more shtotty-looking, and some were simpler fabric. They were all gowns. Maybe we have a semantic issue here.
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