Man Dons Ex’s Wedding Gown for EBay Auction
SEATTLE (AP) — Larry Star didn’t find wedded bliss with his bride, but he did find fame and a modest fortune by donning his ex’s gown.
The tattooed, barrel-chested Star hoped to woo buyers by slipping into the sleeveless white frock in a series of photos for the online auction site, eBay. He was just hoping to scrape together enough cash for some beer and baseball tickets.
He now has enough for champagne and club seats, after the winning bid of $3,850 was announced Wednesday.
The 42-year-old “computer geek by day, guitar player by night,” has garnered national attention for his ad for the dress he describes as “a $1,200 shower curtain,” and says he’s received five marriage proposals.
Not that he plans on getting remarried any time soon.
“For my next wedding, I will be wearing a hairy, flesh-toned ensemble, because I will be buck naked with a toe tag lying on a slab in the morgue, because I would have killed myself,” the New York City native writes on the site.
He says he spent five miserable years married to a woman with “Texas cheerleader hair” whose “drunken sot of an ex-father-in-law” never paid him back for the dress.
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