March 4, 2003

Off Like a Prom Dress

Donate Prom Dresses to NYC High School Girls

Time to face the music. You will never wear that powder-blue bridesmaid dress again. (Thank God.) And that lovely Alaia from years ago is never going to make it out the door — at least not on your hips. And your own prom dress? Please.

Out with the old, you pack-rat! Why not donate the lovely finery gathering dust in your closet to someone who could really use it? From March 3 to 31, Operation Fairy Dust is collecting gently worn formal dresses, accessories, and unopened cosmetics for distribution to New York City high-school girls in need of prom dresses of their own.

Tiaras off to the folks at NY BACKed (New York Benefit & Aid Committee for Kids), the nonprofit whose happy-hour benefits at local bars provide do-gooder hipsters an alternative to the charity-ball circuit, for organizing this.

Now go hit the closet. There’s a girl out there who needs a fairy godmother.

Bring donations from 3/3-3/31 to the Community Resource Center, AOL Time Warner building, 75 Rockefeller Plaza, lobby. Enter on 51st Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. For more information, go to nybacked.org.