Buy My Dress is Ireland’s largest one-day charity dress sale.With same-day events happening in Dublin (Royal College of Physicians, D 2), Cork (Cork School of Music, Union Quay) and Galway (Meyrick Hotel, Eyre Square) on Thursday 20th May this is definitely one event not to be missed! There might even be some second hand wedding dresses up for grabs, or options for bridesmaids dresses – so well worth going along if you are a B2B.
Ladies all over the country are spring cleaning their closets and donating lightly-used dresses which they no longer wear to this fashion event! C’mon, admit it…we all have then, a dress or two lurking at the back of the wardrobe that we have never (and will never!) wear! Whether too big, too small, or simply an impulse purchase gone wrong, Buy My Dress wants that dress you once wore to a wedding, or bought for your child’s communion and is now at the back of your closet.
Last year was the first Buy My Dress Event and they sold almost 1,500 dresses in Dublin’s Royal College of Physicians, raising 35k and earning the title of Fundraising Campaign of the Year. This year the charity hopes to collect 5,000 dresses and has expanded to other cities Cork and Galway.
If you are interested in donating a dress, then you can check out the drop off points at www.buymydress.ie (Peter Mark Salons and many Credit Unions are participating as drop off locations)
As a result of monies raised through last years Buy My Dress event they have begun funding the post of Ireland’s first Down Syndrome Liaison Nurse to AMNCH, Tallaght. In this role, the nurse provides advice, support and guidance to parents of newborn children with Down Syndrome in Dublin maternity hospitals and at home on request. The aim for 2010 is to expand this post and fund further Liaison Nurses countrywide.
So, either donate a dress or head along on the 20th May to one of the shopping days in Dublin, Cork or Galway and buy a dress! As they say, one womans trash is another womans treasure!
