The Who What Wear Podcast: WWW Weddings: Unpacking The Plus-Size Bridal Dilemma, the “Fat Tax,” and the Designers Getting it Right

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🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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How size-inclusive is the bridal industry? In this episode, Associate Features Editor Ana Escalante breaks down her recent piece about her search for the perfect wedding dress as a plus-size bride. She and Editorial Director Lauren Eggertsen unpack the unfair dilemma that plus-size brides often find themselves in: either shopping for a mass market dress that doesn’t suit their style, or paying tens of thousands for a custom gown because the demi couture boutiques don’t offer their size. Ana shares clips of her interview with plus-size bridal stylist Alysia Cole about the bridal “fat tax” — as well as her interviews with bridal designers Alexandra Grecco and Jenny Yoo about what brands can do to make every bride feel beautiful. Plus, Ana and Lauren give their advice to any bride looking for the dress of their dreams. Shop our editor's eBay picks here!

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0:00.0	Searching for a romantic summer getaway. Escape with Rich Girl Summer, the new Audible original
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0:10.2	Lily Chew title. This time, Philippa is joined by her real-life husband, Stephen Pasquale,
0:15.5	set in Toronto's wealthy cottage country, aka the Hamptons of Canada, rich girl Summer follows the story of Valerie,
0:22.1	a down-on-her-luck event planner posing as a socialite's long-lost daughter, while piecing
0:26.5	together the secrets surrounding a mysterious family and falling deeper and deeper in love with the
0:31.7	impossibly hard to read and infuriatingly handsome family assistant, Nico. Caught between pretending to belong
0:38.2	and unexpectedly finding where she truly fits in,
0:41.3	Valerie learns her summer is about to get far more complicated
0:44.0	than she ever planned.
0:45.8	She's in over her head and head over heels.
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1:14.1	Welcome to the Who What Wear podcast, your direct line to the designers, stylists, beauty experts, editors, and tastemakers who are shaping the ever-evolving world of fashion. I'm Who It Weir's co-founder and chief content
1:19.0	officer Hillary Kerr, and today, our editorial director, Lauren Eggerson, is joined by a very
1:25.5	special bride-to-be, our associate features editor, Anna Escalante.
1:30.6	When Anna got engaged earlier this year, she was so excited to start her journey,
1:35.4	but she knew it would be harder to find a dress that she could say yes to as a plus-sized bride.
1:40.9	Anna wrote an amazing piece for our wedding issue about her dress shopping experience.
1:46.1	We'll link it in the episode description.
1:48.1	In this episode, Anna takes us behind the story and inside the fitting rooms of her dress appointments
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