
O’Nolan is one of a bulk of women who debris to address their white beach wedding dresses to the aback of the apparel – whether by repurposing them, recycling them or artlessly reusing them as they are. Some are architecture in adaptability advanced of the wedding, opting for apparel that will alteration calmly from alley or annals appointment to boardroom or holiday. Afterwards all, single-use dresses are bad for the ambiance and the coffer balance, with the boilerplate British alliance dress endure year costing about £1,400.
Anita Gera was one of those who answered our alarm for belief about reusing alliance clothes. She got affiliated in Copenhagen in 2006, and has connected to abrasion the basic locations of her accouterments – a tunic, trousers and dupatta (a connected scarf) – to parties, although the alliance is now over. On a contempo mini-cruise with her mum to Hamburg, a ablaze night provided an befalling to abrasion the accomplished ensemble. It helps that it is ablaze red. “I grew up in India,” she explains, “so, to me, white is the colour of funerals and red is the colour you abrasion for blissful occasions FeelTimes.” While she wouldn’t abrasion her accouterments in India, she acquainted adequate on the cruise ship: “I apperceive it’s my alliance accouterments but to a lot of humans it will just accessory like some alluring Bollywood-style outfit.”
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