Last Saturday the Madison Area Sewing Guild did the alterations for the Junior Leagues annual event called,
"All Dressed Up" About 12 of our members donated several hours to this all day wonderful event.
This is really a great event where teenage girls are able to come and pick out a prom dress, shoes, accessories and have the dress altered all in one place and all for free!!!! The Junior League has this down to a science and they do a grand job!!! Each girl is paired with a Fairy God Mother, who helps pick a dress and all the trimmings, which is really a nice idea. The girls and their friends or moms are given the royal treatment. Many local businesses donate gift certificates for hair, nails, make-up, etc. Not to mention samples and demos. This year it was held at MATC Truax, and that was a really nice place with lots of room for everything.
I have to admit I didn't think this would be this much fun, I had boys and prom dresses were not on my agenda, but it was a great day and tons of fun!!!! They had about 4,000 dresses for the girls to choose from in every size, color, style you can think of!!! Over 360 dresses were given out that Saturday, what a day!!!! I believe we marked and worked on a least 75 garments. Our Sewing Guild did a fabulous job and we made a lot of girls very happy!!!!
I guess the moral to this story is, 'you have to give to get'!!!! And this was one fun way to give and I am looking forward to next year..
It was a feel good day and a wonderful community event.
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