Is the Wedding Dress Dead?
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of The Waves, Slate senior producer Cheyna Roth does a deep dive on wedding dresses. From the oldest family-run bridal shop in the United States, to a warehouse in New York, she explores what the modern wedding dress looks like. Along with brides-to-be Shannon Palus and Susan Matthews, Cheyna talks with Marteal Mayer, the owner of Loulette Bride in Brooklyn, and mother-daughter duo Shelly Mueller and Alyssa Pung, co-owners of Becker’s Bridal in Fowler, Michigan.
In Slate Plus: Our weekly And Just Like That…recap. This week it’s episode four with Cheyna Roth and Slate culture writer Heather Schwedel.
Podcast production by Cheyna Roth with editorial oversight by Daisy Rosario and Alicia Montgomery. Special thanks to Shannon Palus and Susan Matthews.
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| 0:57.6 | When I think of wedding dresses, there's one that immediately comes to mind. |
| 1:02.4 | The door opens. |
| 1:04.0 | There's a bride any man if they're happy to see coming down the hour. |
| 1:08.0 | Princess Diana, that dress was iconic. The big sleeves, the 25 foot long train the ivory silk. |
| 1:18.0 | And if you ask a little girl to draw a princess, I think she draw a dress just like that. |
| 1:22.0 | The tiny bodies, tiny waist and a great big skirt. |
| 1:27.3 | And there she goes at the steps. |
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