Black to the Future

It's always been an ongoing joke that bridesmaid dresses are flat out ugly! We all hear funny stories from friends who wore the dresses with the big puffy sleeves or the color that was meant to make you gag! There's the age old thought that the brides purposely put their girls in dresses to be 100% positiviely absolutely sure that they stand out on their big day (and from the looks of some past pictures, you can believe this to be true in some cases like the one that shows the girls in gold lame). In actuality though, times change and so do trends. So what may've once made for the perfect puffy sleeve may now work out better for the perfect puffy pillowcase.

There has been a change in the past decade though with all of the amazing bridesmaid lines out there to choose from who make certain that the bridesmaid dresses are sometimes just as gorgeous as the bridal gowns! Let's face reality...just as you would buy clothes that go out of style or that you don't fit in to anymore, the same may hold true for your bridesmaid dress.

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that a large percent of women have never even worn their bridesmaid dress after its apperance at the wedding. Many of us have been a bridesmaid more than once, some more than five times, and if you are like Katherine Heigl in the movie 27 dresses, your poor closet is bursting with tafetta! What do you do with these dresses or gowns that were too costly to just throw away? Hopefully you have donated them, but if you are still holding on to them and would like to revamp your wardrobe, there is something exciting and new waiting for you!

Dessy Group who is just simply brilliant, has created Newlymaid and is now providing you with the ability to pretty much trade in your dress for what every girl needs - a little black dress! When you send your dress in, you will receive credit towards a new dress! The material from your old dress will either be recycled to create new yarns or it will be donated to the charity Clothes4Souls. Some criteria does apply, so be sure to read the website first. And, they also accept mother of the bride gowns and prom dresses!

It gets better though! Would you believe that after you receive and wear your new little black dress, that can also be traded back in to Newlymaid?!?! The fun just doesn't end. It's all about the future - recycling, charity, and reinventing yourself!

http://www.newlymaid.com/