Re: Symbolism of the red dress
But in that case, wouldn’t the valima dress be red 
To be more inappropriate 
back in the day (and i think even now?) the night after the wedding they’d fly the marital bed sheet to show the blood stains..ewwww
On a sidenote..its nice to know what are the origins of a color or rasam or piece of ejwelery even…however, to actually abide by those rules today would just be so confining!