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Even though no one explicitly told me I had to dress modestly for the wedding, my brain had been trained to think that I should. When I spent the summer working for Rodkin at his camp and school, I covered my hands and knees. This was my first office job, and it was interesting to learn about the dress code at work and then to learn the deeper meaning behind modesty in Judaism. Whenever I entered a home or religious space, I covered myself. The wedding, with its centuries-old traditions, would be no different, and I planned to incorporate full coverage into my look for my revelry.
No problem. Bevza has an elegance and modesty that is inherent in her designs. She would be the perfect woman to create this look. On a breezy May night, Bevza, who was in town for the Met Gala, met me for dinner at the Casino. She took my measurements in the middle of a crowded dining room including my bust! and scribbled the numbers on a piece of paper. Over the next few months, she worked with her team in Kyiv to create the dress. Bevza and her team were operating under precarious conditions. (Since Russia invaded Ukraine, sirens have been blaring and bombs have been falling on the country’s capital but her team has continued
to work.) Honestly, I was skeptical that the dress would make it to the States: mail, along with travel, is difficult in Ukraine, to say the least. The dress finally arrived about two weeks before the wedding via Ukrainian post. I put it on and it fit perfectly. Bevza knows how to cinch the waist and really accentuate the bust.
As the modern woman has evolved over the past hundred years, the evolution of the bra is a reflection of that evolution one that will surely continue to evolve. I knew I would never get married in a dress. I always wanted a tuxedo. It was what my mother wore to her small wedding in Boston in 1978, and it was what I wanted to wear. After getting engaged two years ago, I quickly decided that my own wedding tuxedo would be designed by Svitlana Bevza of the Kyivbased label Bevza, whom I first discovered on a trip to Ukraine Fashion Week in 2015 and have since become a close friend. In our initial WhatsApp discussions, I told Bevza that I wanted to evoke my mother’s bold, sharp-shouldered effect along with Michelle Pfieffer’s bright white tuxedo in Scarface, but… we would have to make the dress much longer. I would have an Orthodox Jewish wedding and be married by the esteemed Rabbi Rodkin in Brighton, Massachusetts, with whom I worked during the summers while in college.
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