Frenzied Brides Swarm Dress Racks At Filene's Basement
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Hundreds of frenzied women on a mission created pandemonium Friday morning at Filene's Basement on State Street.
As WBBM Newsradio's Mike Krauser reports, for the annual running of the brides, hundreds of brides-to-be and their team members grabbed dresses and tore off clothes, after some of them waited all night in line outside the store at 1 N. State St.
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"We just grabbed everything, and then we figure we'll trade," one woman said.
Another woman and her team estimated that they had picked out as many as 100 dresses.
A third woman was standing among dozens of dresses her team collected.
She said she came at "4:30 yesterday afternoon, determined to get my dress, and I found it, I'm so excited – on the third try," she said.
The event runs from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday only. Similar events are held on different dates at Filene's locations in Westchester County, N.Y.; Washington, D.C.; and suburban Boston.
