Give your bridesmaid dress a nobler second life

Any woman over the age of 25 has one of these beauties collecting dust in her closet. You didn't like it to begin with but you can't throw it out because you are clinging to the belief that you will wear it again. Get over it. It ain't happening. Instead, put your dress to good use by donating it to an organization that provides dresses to teens in need. Let's just hope they Pretty In Pink it and at least cut off the ass-enlarging bow.

Saw the below on DailyCandy LA. Erin and I tried to mention the Cinderella Project in our book, but like dorks we got the URL wrong! Anywho, this is sorta confusing because the link goes to "A Place Called Home" but the Cinderella Project is an organization that collects these dresses year round. Maybe they are connected? I couldn't find the donation info on the APCH site, but you can send your dress to the address below or donate to The Cinderella Project

Here is the DC listing:
GIVE
The Cinderella Project
What: A Place Called Home is collecting dresses for teens in Compton and Long Beach to wear to prom and graduation.
Why: Always a bridesmaid; never have to look at that dress again.
When: By May 3.
Where: Send dresses to Arlene Rosin, c/o The Cinderella Project, 1966 E. Via Arado, Rancho Dominguez, CA 90220.

Bridesmaid Dress Donation Resources

Thanks to reader Kirsten H. for catching this! In the book we suggest that one of the things you can do with your collection of never-going-to-wear-it-again bridemaid dresses is donate them. When we went to The Tyra Banks Show last year, two of the guests were from an organization called The Princess Project, which takes donated gowns (from the last few years only--don't try to dump your 1995 prom dress with them) and makes them available to girls who don't have the resources to buy their own prom and school dance dresses.

In the book, we mistakenly called it The Cinderella Project, because there is actually a regional organizations that does the same thing:
http://www.cinderellaproject.net/


Stay tuned for the upcoming tale from our Annals of Being a Bridesmaid where the dress is not exactly donation-worthy, unless the prom was being held at Medieval Times.