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Vintage, upcycled or second-hand, second-hand wedding dresses make hearts beat faster

Vintage, upcycled or second-hand, second-hand wedding dresses make hearts beat faster
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More and more women are refusing to pay minimum wage or more for a new outfit they'll never wear again. Especially since Covid-19 has seen a significant increase in the availability of second-hand clothing.
In 2024, approximately 247,000 unions (all genders combined) were celebrated in France, according to INSEE (Oleg Zaicev/plainpicture)

"I went into detail in just about every aspect of my wedding ." It was impossible for Léa, who was married in September 2024, to take lightly the choice of what all the guests were scrutinizing: the bride's dress. After several not-so-convincing fittings and the somewhat buried desire "not to buy a new outfit that would end up moldy , " the twenty-something wind power project manager got her hands on the powder pink garment her mother wore when she married her father, who had a rounded belly. The outfit had aged. To shine properly on the big day, it would have to be

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