Something old

"Something old" is the first line of a traditional rhyme that details what a bride should wear at her wedding for good luck: Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue, and a [silver] sixpence in her shoe.

An 1898 compilation of English folklore recounted that: In this country an old couplet directs that the bride shall wear:—"Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue."

[1]The earliest recorded version of the first two lines is in 1871 in the short story, "Marriage Superstitions, and the Miseries of a Bride Elect" in St James' Magazine, when the female narrator states, "On the wedding day I must 'wear something new, something borrowed, something blue.

"[3][4] Another compilation of the era frames this poem as "a Lancashire version", as contrast against a Leicestershire recitation that "a bride on her wedding day should wear—'Something new, Something blue, Something borrowed'...", and so omits the "something old".

[4] In 1894, the saying was recorded in Ireland, in the Annual Report and Proceedings of the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club, where it was attributed to County Monaghan folklore.

Items chosen to bring good luck to the bride. In this case, the veil was borrowed and the handkerchief was new.
A bride's lucky sixpence
A British Victorian sixpence, traditionally worn in the bride's left shoe on her wedding day.