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Trash The Dress - Trashing Your Wedding Gown Fad Grows In Popularity

January 27, 2008

And you ask how far man has fallen…

Few rites of passage are as regimented as a wedding. There are the bridesmaids, the vows, and, then, of course, that white dress. A bride can spend months agonizing over the perfect pristine gown– at one time a symbol of her virginity but now simply tradition– and it’s not uncommon for the wife-to-be to drop thousands of dollars on yards and yards of snow-white chiffon, organza, or silk. Add some Swarovsky crystals, and whew!

But despite the often five- or even sometimes– gasp!– six-figure price tag, it’s a garment that will be worn only once. In the past, this meant a bride would have the dress cleaned after the ceremony, then hermetically sealed and plastic-wrapped for some yet-to-be-born descendant who might care to sport her grandmother’s duds in the year 2047. That heirloom tradition could all change, though, if a trend that’s just taken off on the West Coast makes its way east.

The trend’s name– “Trash the Dress”– adequately describes what happens, but it doesn’t explain the appeal or the reasons why any bride would willingly spend a day after her wedding wearing her gown in an unusual location for a photo shoot in which the dress will quite possibly be damaged beyond repair.

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