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brides outside of big cities on average spend less than $2,000 on a wedding dress, Landgraf and Greenberg estimate

But there may be bigger reasons for their comeback too

We were not chic, Channing says

For pants and skirts, measure from the top of the waist to the hem

In addition to new fabrics that did nothing to hide the figure, designers splashed color all over them

[24] Some in the art and fashion press remarked on the dress's similarity to Vanitas: Flesh Dress for an Albino Anorectic , a meat dress made by Canadian sculptor Jana Sterbak in 1987 exhibited to considerable controversy at the National Gallery of Canada in 1991