Consignment Wedding Gowns

These days my friend plans to have her wardrobe cleaned; the season of winter has already come all over the place, so her summertime clothing is no use to have it filling the spaces of her crammed with stuff closet. Not to mention that the presence of her wedding gown is the most annoying one; all the time she searches for something she stumbles into its length that hangs overwhelmingly all over the small interior of her closet. At the sight of the dress I ask her why isn’t she considering to have the gown sold; she says that she plans to make it a gift for her daughter when she will be old enough to wear it.

It is true that the dress looks exquisite; a long rich train tagged to an A-line style of a skirt rich-fully embroidered with beaded motifs, not to mention that the bodice sparkles with the same rich embroidery. All this design makes the gown too un-cozy to wear as I notice while taking it out of the closet and let the hanger balance in my hand; the dress is very heavy indeed and I ask my friend how was she able to wear this piece of garment without getting tired of its weight. She says that due to the excitement she didn’t even feel its weight, only at the wedding dinner party when she was supposed to dance and move around the dance floor she felt a little bit uneasy, but the arms of her husband carried her almost in the air while dancing and thus she wasn’t given the chance to test the real heaviness of the attire.

I remember as well the way she looked back then: a real princess coming to meet her prince in that eye catching dress wearing it with distinction and elegance, with a wide smile on her face which was radiant as much as with joy as it was with the brilliance reflected by the stones appliqués on her wedding gown. Her words bring me back to the reality while I hear her saying that the dress will be her daughter’s heirloom, therefore she has no intention on selling it further as one of the consignment wedding gowns.

I know my friend to be a conservative and I know as well that she will never quit this idea, the sentimental values gathered in the life of a family being very important to her as they are to her husband. Giving this gown to her daughter she hopes that she will turn to be the same and to appreciate the things that through their sentimental values become the most treasured things inside a family tradition. I do not know why I keep telling her that selling it as a consignment wedding gown, she might get pretty good money for it and these money she could deposit on her daughter’s account to allow her to have a financial start in her life.



But my friend is more than definite: there is and there will never be such a thing to have her wedding gown sold under consignment terms; only the thought that another woman is likely to wear it makes her angry and all these being said I give up my idea to try persuading her to gain back a part of her money that she has invested years ago. I wanted to add that it was more than possible that the dress to be out of fashion or her daughter to grow other tastes in regard to the fashion styles, but I knew as well it's useless.