The Dress Project

We began as Twice Upon a Dress and are now THE DRESS PROJECT.

Visit us at our new website here.

Dresses for Africa

We have nearly 100 party dresses online at our Facebook page to preview. These dresses will be sold in Malawi Africa this fall 2014 to benefit education. If you are interested in the dress please like or comment on Facebook here.

Atlanta Dress Drive Party

Twice Upon a Dress takes your gently used bridal and formal dresses to sell and support education in Africa. Throughout the year we have events to collect dresses. This Cupcakes and Champagne party was co-hosted by Jessica Jetton and Elise Wilkes in Atlanta on August 24th.  The party has collected more than 100 dresses and counting.  If you would like to host a party, email us at twiceuponadressglobal@gmail.com.

1, 2, 3: From Fashion to Benefaction

Three steps to improving the world

1. Look in your closet and see if you have a spare dress you do not wear

2. Mail it to us 

3. Improve the well being of another person's life, forever

One dress can support costs of up to one semester of school for a student. Make a difference with what makes no difference to you. See mailing instructions at right.

Wedding Season Has Arrived

Are you getting married? Are you in a wedding or attending a wedding? Chances are in the months to come you may know someone connected to a wedding in some way. What to do with a wedding, bridal or formal gown after the event? You can commit your dress to changing a life in Africa. Mail us your dress and email us photos of you wearing the dress. We will share your dress story here at our blog and make sure your dress is sold to support education in Africa. Give your dress a second life, change a life for the better! Mailing details at right.

Spring Clean Your Closet!

Time to clean out your closet and send us a dress!

One dress can support up to a semester school.

Make a difference. See shipping details at right.

Tonight! February 6, 2014, Dress Drive, Palm Beach

If you live in the area, please stop in to Michelle Farmer Collaborate Palm Beach from 6-8. For the donation of one spare dress, you will help a student in Africa and enjoy champagne, wine, bites and 10% off any purchase. Valet is available at 105 North County Road.

Send Your Dresses to School in Africa!

We hope you can join us and drop off a dress tomorrow from 6-8 pm. Twice Upon a Dress takes your dresses to sell in Africa to support education in partnership schools of Children of the Nations. The shot below is just one image of how much what doesn't make a difference to you, and is taking up space in your closet, can make a world of difference to someone else. 

Eliphaz Maxwell learns poetry at the Children of the Nations secondary school in Lilongwe, Malawi. 

What's in Your Closet? Donate on February 6, 2014

What's in your closet? You have two weeks to find a spare dress you have been hanging on to and drop it off at Michelle Farmer Palm Beach on Feb 6, 6-8 pm. Your one dress can support a student in Africa for up to one semester! Make a difference and get 10% off a new purchase too. See the event here and like us on Facebook for all events.

Share Your Dress AND Your Story

Do you have an absolutely gorgeous gown just hanging around because you only wore it once for a special event? At Twice Upon a Dress, we can use these existing resources for existing needs. We take your dresses to Africa, to sell and support education costs for orphaned children. And as we gratefully accept your dresses, we also want to hear about why these dresses are so special. Donate your dress and share a photo and event story and we will feature you here. Tell us your stories, as little or as much as you want to share. We would love to see all your gorgeous weddings and events be remembered and also live on! Email us at twiceuponadressglobal@gmail.com.

Send Your Dress to School in Africa

Patrick Demarchelier for Vogue Paris, October 2005

You may have seen the article last month in Vogue that sought to find solutions with what to do with a wedding or bridesmaid dress. They can always be repurposed but they can also be given away. Twice Upon a Dress is an answer. Donate your wedding dress to us. Your spare bridal, bridesmaid or formal dress can simply be mailed to us and we will sell it in Africa, where such luxuries are rare and the profits will go 100% toward education in Africa. Your special day can become a special lifelong difference for a child. We benefit Malawi, Africa with over 1 million orphaned children. Here are some photos by Peter Belvin of a government school in Malawi. If you have a dress to donate, please email us at twiceuponadressglobal@gmail.com

What's in Your Closet?

One dress donated will improve a life forever.

Look in your closet and email us to arrange the donation: twiceuponadressglobal@gmail.com

Follow Twice Upon a Dress at Twitter

Please join us at Twitter. We are networked to over 400 African and Global Support Twitters and will be tweeting both our efforts and those of others. We are committed to serving our mission while staying connected to the network of global citizens making a difference. Follow us here.

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.