November 24, 2008

Battle of the Dresses

Belle of the Ball Donation Drive

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.