STARA ZAGORA, Bulgaria — Donka Hristova lets her mother pull her skintight mini-dress a half-inch down her leg. Checking her makeup one last time, she joins her two younger sisters in a provocative ...

The Unusual Bride Market While most are familiar with markets for clothes, vegetables, and shoes, few have encountered a ...

In a small sewing workshop in southern Gaza, tailors refurbish worn wedding dresses as soaring costs and shortages force brides to turn to secondhand gowns.

The communists tried hard to stamp out the culture of Bulgaria's rural Pomak minority, and since then tough times in the European Union's poorest country have made many leave, but one village is ...