The Tamesis
Patricia also put together her look with help from the community during a welcome party at the Adam family’s Tribeca apartment. A friend who worked at an auction house tipped her off when Peggy Moffitt’s archives were brought to the neighborhood, where Patricia discovered a flowy, tiered Rudi Gernreich dress from the ’60s. “I attended the preview, and then I ended up winning the dress I wore,” she said. She paired it with a pair of knee-high lace-up Free Lance boots that she borrowed from a friend who owns Fussy, a downtown antique store, and finished it off with an antique Omega watch, a gift from Adam.
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Patricia struggled to find a dress for her wedding, which was being held at Trinity Church, a Gothic Revival-style historic Episcopal church in Manhattan’s Financial District. She made an appointment at celebrity favorite Tab Vintage in Los Angeles. “I made a reservation, maybe in June, for our August wedding. My mom was freaking out,” she said. But luckily, Patricia connected with Taboo’s owner, Alexis Novak, through their mutual friends, Never wear out host and predecessor Fashion Fashion writer Liana Satenstein. “Alexis from Tab reached out. She said, ‘Oh my gosh, I see you’re still looking for a dress. I can advance your appointment,'” Patricia recalled. “She’s so sweet. The team is really great.”
Tarbes was the final stop for Patricia’s wedding feast. “I feel like I tried on over a hundred dresses,” she said. “I tried on Balenciaga from the 1950s and Comme from the 2000s, Bob Mackie from the 1980s, Vera Wang from the 1990s, Guy Laroche from the 1970s. We tried it on everything.“
