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Article: WEDDING DRESS OPTIONS AS VARIED AS BRIDES
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- Dayton Daily News
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- October 12, 2003
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Stores offer dresses off rack, others must be ordered
In the 30 years Jessica McClintock has been designing wedding
gowns, she's seen the industry change from women ordering custom
gowns that cost thousands of dollars to brides buying dresses off the
rack for much less.
There was a time when a woman would spend as much as $10,000 on a
custom wedding gown. In the 1970s, McClintock said women shifted to
ready-to-wear dresses off the rack, like the muslin Jessica
McClintock design U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-New York, wore
when she married her husband, former President Bill Clinton in 1975.
In recent years, McClintock said the industry has come to rest