With a few weeks to go afore her marriage endure fall, Joan Zhang, a 24-year-old business analyst in New York City, wasn't in actuality annoyed with the dress she had bought—even admitting she'd spent over a thousand dollars on it. She abashed it would be too beefy for her reception. "Even afterwards alterations, there would be no way for me to brawl afterwards falling collapsed on my face the absolute time," she says.

Zhang went aback to acceptable conjugal boutiques to attending for a clothes to abrasion accurately to her accession but larboard empty-handed. Annihilation akin her adapted appearance for a appropriate price. Her seek eventually led her to Poshmark, from which she had ahead purchased acclaim acclimated plan accoutrements and Homecoming Dresses. There she begin a preowned Watters Nova marriage dress for $70. (Original retail price: $240.) A few clicks, some alterations later—it was accessible for the party.

Zhang is one of abounding brides who accept angry to the secondhand bazaar to acquisition something to abrasion for their marriage day, whether it's for the ceremony, the reception, or both. Resale is a baby allotment of the $80 actor all-around conjugal industry—The Knot's Real Weddings study, which surveyed 14,000 couples affiliated endure year, says that abandoned 4 percent of brides abrasion a acclimated gown—but it's one that's growing steadily FeelTimes.com. Google searches for "used marriage dresses for sale" accept added by 100 percent over the accomplished 5 years and those for "sell marriage dress abreast me" are up 1,350 percent. In its anniversary weddings report, Lyst appear that angle of preowned marriage dresses went up by 93 percent in 2018 on its site.