Why This Husband Bought 55,000 Dresses for His Wife | Extraordinary People | New York Post

Описание: In this episode of Extraordinary People, the New York Post profiles a dress collector who has more than 55,000 gowns. Paul Brockman of East Mesa, Arizona, spent a lifetime gathering beautiful dresses for his wife, Margo. “I never wanted my wife to wear a dress twice,” the hopeless romantic told The Post. Now the Brockmans are saying goodbye to their massive dress collection. Since 2014, they stopped acquiring new garments and, with the help of their daughter, have sold 7,000 pieces.

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Husband’s heartwarming reason he owns 55,000 dresses
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The largest dress collection in the world isn’t in a designer’s warehouse: It’s at Paul and Margot Brockmann’s house.

“If I saw a dress that I really liked, well, I bought it,“ says Paul, 83, who’s kept his wife of 61 years in 55,000 dresses, which fill their East Mesa, Arizona, garage, one specially designed closet and three 50-foot-long containers.

Paul’s love affair with dressing Margot dates back to the night they met, at a dance hall in their native Germany. (Margot can’t remember the dress, but says “it was pretty nice, according to him.”)

“When I walked in, there was Margot,” Paul recalls. “We danced all night and we fell in love.”

Since then, he’s gifted her with dresses, most of them secondhand and vintage, in keeping with Paul’s love for the fashions of the ’50s. “That’s the time when they had wide skirts and petticoats,” he says. Most were bought at garage sales and closeouts. Paul even hooked up for a time with Sears: “When the styles were changing, they would call me up and sell me the dresses at a very reasonable price.”

Bargains or not, he bought her last dress in 2014, when the couple simply ran out of room. Paul hopes to sell the whole collection en masse, keeping some 200 for Margot. They just selected her dresses for their trip to a German Karneval celebration in Las Vegas this weekend.

“One of them is long, it’s peach-colored tulle,” Paul reports, “and the other, shorter one is a green satin.”

So what does Margot think of all this?

“She’s not,” he concedes, “that much into dresses.”

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