All this supposed industry progress is moot if fat people still can’t try on a variety of dresses across a range of styles and silhouettes
Photo: Gen Umekita/Getty Images As a fat person having a wedding in the fall of 2022, I was looking for something a little different when it came to my dress — I’m not particularly interested in “accentuating my curves,” as many dresses geared toward fat people advertise, and I’m much more frump than I am diva or pretty princess.
“Most of them we could probably get on you well enough for you to get the idea,” wrote someone who works at Abigail Bride in Asbury Park, adding that the company uses these “in-between” sizes to accommodate both “tiny brides” and “curvy brides” because it’s too expensive for them to carry more than one size. But this doesn’t hold up: A very thin person would be able to use clips to get a solid idea of how a dress would fit, but a fatter person would not be able to get the dress on at all.
Because of the expense of producing a wedding dress, stores have to pay for the sample dresses customers try on while striving to stock as many styles as possible, so they buy as few samples as possible — usually just one size of each style. Still, nothing I had learned so far explained why the most common dress samples would be so small. According to a 2018 study, the average woman in America is now a size 16 to 18 and 68 percent of American women wear above a size 14, so what, truly, is the wedding industry’s damage? Could it be that fewer fat people were purchasing wedding dresses?
Dye adds a $150 surcharge to any dress order above a size 14 because of the increased cost of the materials and the labor involved in redesigning a dress pattern to make it work for a bigger body. “It’s not great,” she said of the up-charge, “but with the size of the company we are … we’re just trying to accommodate what’s going to be a bigger investment from us to make the gown.”
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