Brides who chose suits long before Dua Lipa

When Dua Lipa wore a Schiaparelli couture white skirt suit as she wed the actor Callum Turner in London last month, she joined a long line of women who have opted for a suit. Bianca Jagger caused a stir when she married Mick Jagger in 1971, wearing a Yves Saint Laurent Le Smoking jacket and bias-cut skirt.

Readers recalled practical and stylistic reasons for choosing a suit. Tilly Burn wanted something reusable and cool, buying a Me+Em suit with trousers tailored by Anwen Greenaway and later wearing it at least 15 times. Judith Winters chose a pale blue Nicole Farhi trouser suit for a 1997 humanist ceremony and liked being able to dance and lift children comfortably.

Other weddings ranged from deliberately unconventional to purely practical.

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