{"id":2046,"date":"2007-01-25T10:19:25","date_gmt":"2007-01-25T18:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/01\/but_it_was_for_a_good_cause.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T14:24:34","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T19:24:34","slug":"but_it_was_for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/01\/but_it_was_for.html","title":{"rendered":"But It Was For A Good Cause!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not telling him what you got at the UJA thrift shop is one thing, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/article\/47340\">explaining what that big wedding dress is doing in the closet is quite another<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A 27-year-old Manhattan woman twirled before a full-length mirror in a lace wedding gown yesterday morning. &#8220;If my boyfriend knew I was doing this, we&#8217;d break up,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The strapless gown by Vera Wang retails for $12,900. However, the yet-to-be-engaged woman, who didn&#8217;t want her name mentioned lest her live-in boyfriend find out she was planning ahead, bought it for only $450.<\/p>\n<p>Donated new and store-sample wedding dresses by high-end designers went on sale yesterday at the United Jewish Appeal Federation of New York Thrift Shop on West 17th Street. All of the usually four- or five-figure gowns were tagged at $500 or less.<\/p>\n<p>At those prices, bride-to-be Molly Davis, 31, bought two. One was a white backless empire-waist Monique Lhuillier white gown, which retails for $4,700. The other was a slinky, ivory halter dress by Vera Wang, usually priced at $2,300. Ms. Davis, who works in the fashion industry, paid a total of $750 for the dresses. &#8220;I was planning to pay more, but I&#8217;m not going to argue with these prices,&#8221; she said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not telling him what you got at the UJA thrift shop is one thing, but explaining what that big wedding dress is doing in the closet is quite another: A 27-year-old Manhattan woman twirled before a full-length mirror in a lace wedding gown yesterday morning. &#8220;If my boyfriend knew I was doing this, we&#8217;d break [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-see_the_thing_is_was"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}