Cenk Uygur
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$500 'Try On' Fee For Designer Dresses?!
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March 30, 2013
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2:19Now Playing"China's $57 billion wedding industry floats on ridiculous markups on everything from liquor and cigarettes to photography. But for "VIP" brides-to-be shopping at Vera Wang's boutique in Shanghai, which is still in a soft-opening phase, one charge took the white wedding cake: The store charged 3,000 renminbi ($482) for a 90-minute, wedding-dress try-on session. That's right: Customers were paying for the opportunity to pay for something."*
Vera Wang has since backed down off the the policy, but the high-end dressmaker was charging patrons nearly $500 to try on dresses in China. Was the steep fee to add prestige (and keep the poor out)? Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss.
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