Twice Upon A Dress: What's Your Story?

Sunday, July 14, 2013

What's Your Story?

Rosemary Ferguson and Jake Chapman hiding a kiss, Vogue, 2004

Do you have a dress worn on a special occasion? Are you holding on to the dress for its memory? What if you could tell your dress story, and then let that dress make a lasting difference in the life of a young scholar? We would like you to share your dress story here, the stories not many know, and the great photos not many have seen. Share your favorite moments, best photos, all the fun the details with us, to be posted here when you donate your dress to support education in Africa.

Your memorable dress can transform someone else's entire lifetime.

How to help?

We accept dresses year round for specific trips to Malawi. We need like-new bridal, bridesmaid and formal dresses in great condition, ideally from the past five years.

Step 1. Take a photo of your dress and email it to us at twiceuponadress@gmail.com

Step 2. We reply with the next deadline and closest mailing address.

Step 3. Package and ship your dress.

Step 4. Be sure to email us your dress story:

-Event

-Event date
-Quality photo of the special event (250 pixels+)

Please follow us here and at Facebook and Twitter. We will be featuring your dress stories on this blog. Those dresses will be sold in Africa to support education of young scholars, whose stories we will also tell here.

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Our Story

Founders
Twice Upon A Dress was founded by Jocelyn Kumwenda and Jody Stephenson in 2013. Jocelyn and Jody had been partnering for years to support school fees and other educational expenses for a young girl in Malawi. In the process of her story, they discovered many other young girls and boys who were struggling to achieve their dreams.

Location
In a country where many people live on less than $2 per day, school fees can be too large of a burden to bear. High school in Malawi may cost $35-150 per semester and there are three terms per school year. These fees do not include the cost of transportation to and from school, mandatory uniforms, or expenses for basic necessities or examination fees. As a result, many students stop at Grade 8, leaving them unprepared for employment and life itself. Global unemployment rates for youth are at their highest. Continuing one's education opens doors to opportunities, whether it is in their rural home village or an urban city.

Purpose
Jocelyn and Jody decided to address the need for educational support with abundant existing resources. Many women have out of use dresses in their closets for years that are not given away because each dress comes with a story of a wedding, prom, holiday party or special evening. What if there was a way to remember them and then these dresses were given a chance for a second story? Donated dresses can be featured on our website and will create a promise of a future story, to be worn again, toward new memories. Twice Upon A Dress believes that these dresses not only offer a second life to another wearer but also bring young African scholars closer to completing secondary school and realizing the fullness of their potential.