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Why Are Wedding Dresses the Latest Trend Among Chinese College Grads? Women in China are taking advantage of the strides they’ve made in society, and many flock to universities to pursue education. Empowered with their diplomas in hand, graduates are set to head off into the workforce. And what do these young, modern women wear to commemorate their professional achievement? Wedding dresses of course. No, they aren’t getting married. Rather, many Chinese women are renting wedding dresses simply for their graduation pictures. And yes, this is disturbing on various levels. That Bridal Glow Here’s how some graduates have explained their decision to spurn caps and gowns to opt for the blushing bride look: It’s just about creating a memory. After all, we all want to preserve images of our most beautiful selves.# Yes, and this way they will have multiple occasions on which to preserve images of their most beautiful, wedding selves. The wedding dress makes things feel more meaningful. [The wedding dress] represents that our youth is fading. Yikes. I assume this is in reference to the post-school stress many young adults face in China. A little reality-check yin to the happy graduation yang? Something Old, Something New You might wonder how this creepy bride clone phenomenon sprung up at university graduations. It turns out that Chinese graduation ceremonies haven’t been big deals historically. Schools don’t line up big-name figures to speak, parents rarely bother showing up and the whole thing is a generally dry and perfunctory affair. So in the absence of fulfilling tradition, young students have taken matters into their own hands with novel trends—starting with photo shoots that allow graduates to upload their self-images to social media and compete with their peers for the hottest looks. But wedding dresses specifically? Perhaps since the wear of western-style white dresses for a wedding is a relatively recent occurrence in China, the population doesn’t have such a firm