The Waves: Is the Wedding Dress Dead?
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4.2 • 2K 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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| 0:29.0 | When I think of wedding dresses, there's one that immediately comes to mind. |
| 0:34.0 | The door opens. |
| 0:36.0 | There's a bride and a man with a happy picture to see coming down here. |
| 0:40.0 | Princess Diana, that dress was iconic. |
| 0:45.0 | The big sleeves, the 25-foot long train, the ivory silk. |
| 0:50.0 | And if you ask a little girl to draw a princess, I think she draw dress just like that. |
| 0:54.0 | The tiny bod is tiny waist and a great big skirt. |
| 0:58.0 | And there she goes with the steps. |
| 1:02.0 | At least, that's what it was like in 1981. |
| 1:05.0 | But what about now? |
| 1:07.0 | When I got married about a decade ago, I still thought of the wedding dress as being this big, poofy, princess thing or at least long and definitely white. |
| 1:17.0 | Even if that wasn't really my style. |
| 1:19.0 | We are doing a seating chart because we were like, oh, we actually don't want everyone to come in and scrambles to find their place. |
| 1:27.0 | Two of my colleagues at Slate were planning their wedding outfits this spring. |
| 1:31.0 | Neither one of them were interested in anything that looked like Princess Diana's dress. |
| 1:36.0 | Susan Matthews, Slate's executive editor, had already decided on her custom made wedding jump suit. |
| 1:42.0 | When we recorded this episode, Shannon Paulus, a senior editor at Slate, was still considering all her options. |
| 1:49.0 | Her inspiration, though, wasn't Princess Diana or any other royalty. |
| 1:53.0 | It was a different fashion icon. |
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