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Creative ideas for old bridesmaid dresses.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Sarah Sabalos
COLUMBIA, S.C. _ Most women of a certain age have a clot of polyester/acetate in the back of their closets, a frilly parade of dresses in shades with strippers' names _ Ice Pink, Moon Lavender, Hot Emerald.
They're the dresses that your friend, the big liar in the white veil, promised you could wear again after her wedding.
"No one knows what to do with them," said Heather Craig of Revente, which emphatically will not take a bridesmaid dress for resale, unless it's a Vera Wang or something very formal and cocktail-ish; a bridesmaid dress that has fully renounced its lowly origins and gone over to the other side.
"Otherwise, they look very bridesmaid-y," Craig said. "The styles are boring, and they're usually lavender or pale pink.
"If someone calls, and the conversation starts with, `I have a bridesmaid's dress...' we say `no' and tell people to donate to theaters."
"...Or the Cinderella Project," said Craig's co-worker, Janie McDowell, referring to a charity that provides gently used formal wear for young women who lack the financial resources to buy gowns for their high-school proms. In Columbia, the S.C. Bar Young Lawyers Division sponsors the project.
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