NDG’s ’Notre-Prom-de-Grâce’ Prom Dress Giveaway

Notre-Prom-de-Grâce – The NDG Community Council is hosting its 1st edition of ‘Notre Prom de Grâce’ and they are giving away Prom Dresses for free! Students can view and select a dress on May 27th 2018 from 11:00am until 4:00pm at their place located at 5964 Ave Notre-Dame-de-Grace – Suite 205.

It all started last January when a family in the dropped off some donations at the Sherbrooke Forest Art Hive. In the donations they found a beautiful, mauve dress. The family who donated the supplies said ‘do whatever you want, use it for fabric or give it away, we don’t need it anymore.’

So the Council decided to do something else with it. They thought it was too beautiful to repurpose and instead dreamed up the ‘Prom Dress Project’ hoping to receive at least another 20 dresses. They ended up getting over 150 dresses of all sizes, plus jewelry, hand bags and shoes! And as they said, “We want to highlight the beauty of the three R’s: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle – while offering families a respite from over spending when it isn’t necessary. We don’t need to consume more we can share what we have.”

Everyone graduating is welcome to come and sort through the dresses and choose one for their High School Prom. They are also offering:

  • Free alterations on site
  • There are no charges for any dress
  • Recipients names are not recorded…only school names of attended
  • Dresses come in a variety of sizes, colors, and designs
  • Dressing rooms are available
  • Free portrait
  • Each student will get 3 coupons; 1 for a dress, 1 for a piece of jewelry and another for either shoes

or a cocktail purse

Bravo to them on this initiative! For more information you can call them at (514) 484-1471

Bonnie Wurst – info@mtltimes.ca
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