A New Jersey librarian named Adele Puccio matches brides with pre-owned wedding gowns, from her office near Current Nonfiction, Henry Alford writes.
Matching needy brides with used wedding gowns isn’t new. During the Second World War, both Eleanor Roosevelt and the romance novelist Barbara Cartland helped provide British military brides with wedding attire; in 2020, Sara Blakely, the founder of Spanx, loaned out her wedding dress to several women whose dreams for their big day had been derailed by the pandemic. But Puccio is in it for the fun. She allows women to try on dresses even if they aren’t getting married.
One of the brides-to-be—a project manager who’d driven from Queens—began to cry when she looked at herself in the mirror wearing a strapless chiffon gown with a scalloped neckline: it was the one. “I feel great,” she said. “I feel pretty.” The four brides offered one another encouragement and counsel. “How does it feel?” one asked, as another swept out of Puccio’s office in an embroidered Oleg Cassini pouf. “Can’t breathe,” the dress-wearer gasped.
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