The 1920s was an age where women declared their independece after gaining the right to vote in August of 1920. Large and heavy ball gown wedding dresses were replaced by lighter straight lace silk wedding dresses that were bias cut. Coco Chanel introduced a totally new style by creating a short wedding dress with a long tulle train. Today, for collectors of vintage haute couture there is one name that stands out and that name is, of course, Chanel. Chanel's original wedding dresses are bring auctioned to museum, galleries, wealthy elites, movie stars, and design archivists. They all scramble about to collect vintage Chanel items.