After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.

Jerrold’s line treats the wedding dress as more than a fashionable garment: its beauty comes from what it signifies. A wedding-gown is “prettier” not necessarily because of superior fabric or cut, but because it is saturated with cultural meaning—public commitment, hope, ceremony, and the charged emotions of a threshold moment. The remark also hints at how objects acquire aesthetic value through narrative and social ritual: the same dress, stripped of its occasion, would lose much of its charm. In that sense the quote is less about clothing than about the way symbolism and expectation can transform the ordinary into the radiant.