Battle of the Dresses
Belle of the Ball Donation Drive From Daily Candy
You used to love that sequined mermaid number. Now it’s more like body armor. And that slinky navy chiffon? You’d rather spend a night in a foxhole.
Give yesterday’s fancy things an honorable discharge: Donate your old cocktail dresses and evening gowns to Belle of the Ball, a new lending closet for military wives.
The Fort Hood Area Enlisted Spouses Club is gathering gently used party frocks and accessories (no shoes, please) to create a library of formal wear. The wives of enlisted men, officers, foreign force members assigned to the base, and activated National Guardsmen will check out and wear the dresses to military balls held before and after their husbands are deployed.
The service will be free for the ladies, who simply have to pay the cost of dry cleaning before they return their gowns.
Hut, two, three, four.
To make a donation, contact Rachel Dean at 254-539-9875 or momof3terrors@aol.com.
1 comment:
Patricia,
Thank you so much for adding this article to your blog!
I can't tell you enough how happy these military wives at Fort Hood have been as a result of the Belle of the Ball gown closet!
It's open to wives of any Soldier (regardless of their rank, Officer or Enlisted), and to the female Soldiers (they're allowed to wear evening gowns to the Ball events sometimes). *smile* Nearly every lady who has checked out a gown so far has said that they wouldn't have been able to attend had it not been for the Belle of the Ball!
Thank you Patricia! And I hope you had a Merry Christmas!
Best Regards,
Rachel Dean
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