Sarah and Julie have been divorced since 2017 and regularly wear their old wedding dresses on nights out (Picture: MDW Features/@Itsonlyadress)

Best friends Julie Frug and Sarah Kralowski, respectively from Illinois and Michigan, have lots in common.

Cheating husbands is one of those things.

To help one another get over the infidelity, Julie and Sarah have been wearing their wedding dresses casually on nights out together.

Self-employed Julie, 46, met hairstylist Sarah, 33, at a hair salon in 2012 when they were both married. A few years later, Julie discovered that her husband had cheated on her more than once.


Sarah consoled Julie at the time and sadly found that her own husband had been unfaithful too just months later.

In January 2017 Julie decided to get a divorce, with Sarah following suit a few months later.



Now, instead of selling their wedding dresses, the best friends have decided to document wearing their gowns on nights out, eating fried chicken, playing in the park, and drinking some risky red wine.

The two became friends after Sarah cut Julie’s hair, but they didn’t realise that their mutual divorces would soon bring them closer (Picture: MDW Features/@Itsonlyadress)

Julie struggled to donate her 20-year-old gown: the only company willing to take it in repurposes dresses to be used to bury babies who are stillborn.

She wanted her £650 dress’s last purpose to be a happy one and encouraged Sarah to do something with her Vera Wang bridal outfit too.

Sarah couldn’t bear to part with her stunning wedding dress as it was too important to her.

Julie on her wedding day in 1998 (Picture: MDW Features/@Itsonlyadress)

While discussing what to do with the gowns, the pair decided to wear them and pose doing random things in their houses, creating their Instagram page, @itsonlyadress where they post photos of themselves wearing their beloved wedding outfits.

They eventually took the dresses outside the house, donning them on nights out.

While the shenanigans are partly to enjoy being single again, the duo also wants to convey the message that men and women shouldn’t feel ashamed of being divorced, nor should they feel any shame for their marriage not working out.

‘Too many people let the fear of being divorced impact their lives, so there’s a veil of shame or a feeling of failure that comes with divorce,’ said Sarah.

They don’t mind getting dirty while wearing the traditional gowns (Picture: MDW Features/@Itsonlyadress)

Sarah and Julie also share the pictures to destigmatise divorce (Picture: MDW Features/@Itsonlyadress)

‘Divorce was the best thing to happen to both of us, although it was hard to see in the beginning.

‘Creating new memories with the dresses has helped us both mentally as we can’t put them on without giggling. We rarely think about the first time we wore those dresses because now we laugh at the silly things we’ve done in them.

‘We have found a lot of happiness after going through hell by finding humour doing funny things in our old wedding dresses, and hope we inspire others with our posts.

‘Creating new memories with the dresses has helped us both mentally as we can’t put them on without giggling. We rarely think about the first time we wore those dresses because now we laugh at the silly things we’ve done in them.

‘We’ve gone out in public wearing the dresses to a local park, and people stared at us and some even left the vicinity.

‘We want men and women to know that they are not alone in the struggle to get through divorce. Don’t look at it as a failure, instead look at it as a brand new beginning with fun chapters to write in post-divorce lives.



‘It’s an opportunity to create new memories with things that have bad ones tied to them.

‘The newfound freedom is invigorating.

‘We want to show people that they don’t need to look at things or places connected to their marriage with deep hatred and hurt. You can just change the memory and make it positive or funny.

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