Wray Closing Is A Huge Loss For Plus-Size Fashion

And in a fashion landscape that makes it more convenient (see: cheaper) to shop big names over independent brands, it’s a reality that's getting rarer and rarer. “I used to love spending a day down on [Manhattan's] Orchard Street because there was a little corridor of shops I could go to and try on in person with Wray, Ilana Kohn, and Big Bud Press. Now it’s just Big Bud left there,” Morgan Carattini said. “It always blows my mind that in a place like New York City plus-size women have so few places to shop in person and the options keep disappearing. Wray, in particular, filled the colorful, joyful hole in many wardrobes bringing us all the patterns we weren’t able to get elsewhere.”