Does The Bachelorette Pay For Her Own Clothes?

After a longer than usual wait as a result of the pandemic, The Bachelorette is back with Clare Crawley as its star. With the ABC hit show’s return, come a lot of questions: Which of the Bachelorette Season 16 contestants will make the best impression on night one? What’s going on with Tayshia Adams? What’s the story behind Crawley’s night one dress? The latter prompts a follow-up: Does Crawley have to pay for it, or, for that matter, any of her looks for the season ahead? 

Generally speaking, The Bachelorette stars do not pay for the wardrobe featured on the show. The franchise is a big one, with each season bringing in a large sum of money that allows the main stars of its many shows — in addition to the Bachelor and the Bachelorette, there’s also Bachelor in Paradise, The Bachelor Winter Games, and Bachelor in Paradise: After Paradise — to participate without having to spend thousands of dollars on clothing and accessories. (To clarify, while the head Bachelor and Bachelorette do not pay for their wardrobes, the contestants fighting for their hearts do.) 

According to Money, each season, the show provides a budget for stylist Cary Fetman to work with. From there, Fetman works alongside the current Bachelorette to handpick each of the looks featured in their respective seasons. During Emily Maynard’s season of the Bachelorette in 2012, the clothing budget was, according to reports, a whopping $350k and included a $40k Randi Rahm gown and $1,045 Christian Louboutin heels. (Maynard’s clothing budget was the highest ever on the show at the time.) During Becca Kufrin’s season in 2018, she wore a $22k Randi Rahm gown for the premiere, as well as a Tom Ford sequin dress later in the season that cost $6k. And given that Crawley is also wearing a Randi Rahm gown on night one, we can only presume that her budget is equally substantial. “The fashion is a big part of the Bachelorette’s journey during their season,” Rahm told Refinery29. “This is a true couture piece, and therefore, we cannot divulge the actual price, but it is a pretty penny.”

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But it’s not all couture gowns and high fashion labels on the show. According to an interview from 2016 with The Hollywood Reporter, Fetman likes to maintain a high-low balance in the show’s wardrobes. “So much of the clothes — the day to day clothes — I try to make that reachable,” he said. “Sometimes it’s Bloomingdale’s, sometimes it’s Neiman Marcus. Sometimes I go to Old Navy for tanks. For example, the coat will be designer, but the tank top she’s wearing underneath it is Zara or H&M.” And that’s not all. According to Amy Kaufman’s book Bachelor Nation, the stars of the franchise get to keep the clothing they wore on the show after the season concludes. So, in addition to (hopefully) getting a fiancé, the stars of The Bachelorette also get a whole new wardrobe by the end of filming. 

See what Crawley and Fetman chose to showcase style-wise beginning with the premiere on Tuesday, October 13, at 8pm EST.

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The Designer Of Clare Crawley’s Night One Dress Is A Bachelorette Veteran

THE BACHELORETTE – ABC’s “The Bachelorette” stars Clare Crawley. (ABC/Maarten de Boer)

On Tuesday night, the Bachelorette returns (after a slight delay due to the pandemic) for its 16th season starring Clare Crawley — the runner-up on the 18th season of the Bachelor, which aired in 2014, and a contestant on Bachelor in Paradise and Bachelor Winter Games. While there’s little that we know about the upcoming season, we did get a solid peek at one thing ahead of the premiere: Clare Crawley’s dress from night one.

In September, the show released a handful of images of Crawley’s first look of the season. For the occasion, the 39-year-old hairstylist from Sacramento, California, chose a lavender halter gown courtesy of Randi Rahm, a New York-based couture and bridal designer. The floor-length, backless dress features a mosaic of mirror-like sequins, that cluster on top of the dress before dispersing toward the bottom. According to Rahm, the dress was selected from her Love and Passion collection, “after much thought and consideration.” Rahm tells Refinery29, “I chose the gown because with [Crawley’s] coloring, it was a perfect fit.” 

]THE BACHELORETTE – “1601” – Clare Crawley will finally embark on her journey to find her soul mate as “The Bachelorette” returns for its sizzling 16th season on a new night. After putting Juan Pablo in his place on the memorable, 18th season finale of “The Bachelor,” and gaining a new sense of resolve and self-worth, Clare is more than ready to put her romantic disappointments in the rearview mirror and start a wild ride to find her happily ever after on the season premiere of “The Bachelorette,” TUESDAY, OCT. 13 (8:00-10:01 p.m. EDT), on ABC. (ABC/Craig Sjodin) CLARE CRAWLEY

Rahm is no stranger to dressing stars on both the Bachelor and the Bachelorette. In fact, the designer was responsible for none other than season 13’s star Rachel Lindsay’s sparkling finale dress, as well as her wedding dress. She also designed dresses for Emily Maynard, the season 8 Bachelorette, and Becca Kufrin from season 14, among others. “Working with the Bachelorette is such a wonderful experience,” Rahm says. The designer explains that she — along with all of the designers in the running for placement on the show — are privy to which contestant has been chosen for the season in advance, giving them the ability to customize the gowns they send for consideration: “I send what I feel will be the most beautiful, stunning, and appropriate pieces.” The pieces are then sent to Bachelorette stylist Cary Fetman and the contestant, who go through racks and racks of gowns and select which ones are right for each of the season’s big events, including night one and the final rose. “Crawley was the one to choose her premiere dress out of many, many gowns,” Rahm says. “She went right to it and picked it for the opening night.” 

On an episode of the podcast Bachelor Happy Hour, featuring Feltman — along with makeup artist Gina Modica and former contestants Becca Kufrin and Lindsay — the stylist explained that there’s a very specific formula for picking a dress for the premiere. For starters, the dress has to survive a long night, some of which is spent outside in a driveway. “There’s a reason why they all have some gauzy bottom or sequins,” he said. “I don’t think the audience realizes how many times you’re lifted in the air and put down.” Feltman added that it’s important for the dress not to soak up water or dirt in the driveway. “It’s gotta be something that I can dry and clean while the party is beginning before you go back out again. It can’t be something that is absorbed and is filthy, because it’s a really long night. You can’t worry about the fact that every time you cross your leg, the bottom of your dress is completely ruined,” he said. 

As for the rest of the season, there’s a lot of fashion to come — which includes other pieces designed by Rahm. “All I can tell you is that you can expect much more Randi Rahm on this season,” Rahm says.

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