rich materials

'She was dressed in rich materials'satins, and lace, and silks'all of white. Her shoes were white. And she had a long white veil dependent from her hair, and she had bridal flowers in her hair, but her hair was white. . . . [Then] I saw that everything . . . which ought to be white, had been white long ago, and had lost its lustre, and was faded and yellow. I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers.'

'Charles Dickins, Great Expectations, 1861. The description is of Miss Havisham, who, jilted on her wedding day, wore her bridal gown for the next thirty years.