Word: kleinfelder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ceremony. This is just part of a long, tough job. "Amy is such a skinny thing. So flat-chested," Marguerite has explained. "Nothing looked right." So Mother left her Park Avenue apartment in Manhattan and, with daughter in tow, journeyed to Bay Ridge in Brooklyn, where she found Kleinfeld's and, at last, a suitable wedding dress...
...Kleinfeld's, an establishment approximately the size of a private airport, sees a lot of Amys--more, it seems, than ever before. A hundred potential brides drop in every day, and 150 on Saturdays. A staff of 100 brings in samples from a stock of some 800 model bridal gowns, averaging $1,200 in price and topping out around $10,000. "Every girl is special, beautiful," insists Owner Hedda Kleinfeld Schapter. "These are custom dresses for noncustom $ people. How could a career girl come in here wearing Perry Ellis and accept anything less...
...wanted to give her a psychological lift." Bridesmaids everywhere may be brooding over reports that the marriage rate for eligible women ages 15 to 44 has dropped to the lowest level ever recorded: for each 1,000 women, there are fewer than 100 weddings each year. Not even the Kleinfeld's limo can ride over a sobering stat like that...
There is no gloom at Kleinfeld's, however, or anywhere else in the wedding industry. Everyone, in fact, seems downright delirious--from the usual near- frantic nuptial logistics and from unconcealed fiscal rapture. In 1985, according to Bride's magazine, which takes proprietary pride in such things, the industry raked in $10.9 billion (including money spent on gifts and other wedding bounty), up 43% in the past decade. Manhattan's swank Pierre Hotel has seen a 20% increase in its wedding business over the past five years. Many couples are opting for "weekend weddings": multi-event affairs that stretch...
Although well represented in the C doubles and singles, the Crimson did not produce any individual titlists. Matthew Porteus fell to Yale's Bill Benjes, 7-6, 6-3, in singles and with his partner, Kleinfeld, succumbed in the doubles to a Dartmouth...