Corporate Challenge Kicks Off with a BANG! Literally…

BC Hydro's Cynthia Curll pops her balloon to determine what item her Challenge Team will collect for Dress for Success Vancouver’s Corporate Challenge. (Photo: Brian Hawkes Photographic Inc.)

Dress for Success Vancouver kicked off our annual fall fundraiser, Dress Me for Success Corporate Challenge, at Oakridge Centre September 1st. Challengers made noise by popping balloons to select which items they will collect over the month of September in support of local women re-entering the workforce.

Nineteen companies are taking part in the Challenge, which includes a drive, raffle, scavenger hunt and fashion show. You can join the Corporate Challengers at the Marriot Pinnacle Hotel on October 7th to celebrate the completion of their month-long challenge.

Tickets are $25.00 (one drink and appies included). The evening includes a fashion show, supporters showcase, auction and door prizes. Watch as Challengers strut their stuff and are awarded their prizes.

For more information and to buy tickets, click here.

PWG Success Summit 2010

Lucia Crosson, PWG Coordinator with Joi Gordon C.E.O of Dress for Success World Wide and Santa Chow, PWG Vancouver Delegate

Dress for Success Worldwide annually holds the Success Summit, a conference for Professional Women’s Group (PWG) members and coordinators to develop leadership skills through networking, learning new personal and professional skills and exploring issues surrounding career development.

This year, Santa Chow represented Dress for Success Vancouver at the PWG Success Summit in Chicago IL. Santa learnt to develop leadership skills to create and implement together with her PWG colleagues a project that will benefit the Lower Mainland community.

Flare Magazine and Oakridge Centre present Fall Trend Report 2010!

Join Lisa Tant, Editor-in-chief of FLARE for a sneak peak of the fashion and beauty trends for the fall! There will be door prizes, gift bags, raffle prizes, cocktails and hours d'oeuvres!

The details:
When: September 1 - 6:30-7:30pm (Doors open at 6pm)
Where: Oakridge Centre (Cambie and 41st)

$20 donation at the door benefits Dress for Success Vancouver

Seating is Limited -- Please RSVP by August 30th to www.flare.com/oakridge

Thanks Angel Restoration and PwC!

Last Thursday, we were so fortunate to have carpet cleaning services donated to us by Angel Restoration. A team of Dress for Success Vancouver volunteers emptied the store of nearly everything but a few clothing racks on Thursday morning.

Taking the store apart was easy, putting it back together was a tad more challenging! Thank goodness 5 fabulous volunteers from PwC came in to help us out! Over the course of the day, the store was scrubbed top to bottom and everything found its place again (just in time for our Dressing Services appointments the next morning!).

Thank you PwC and Angel Restoration!

Need a new lap top bag?

Rainbrooke just came out with a great new laptop bag. It is funky, chic and cool... therefore, it is called the Funchico!

Inspired by vintage train cases, and in an adorable light pink pattern, you will be the envy of all your other lap-top carrying friends!

Why are we so excited about this? Well other than it being so trendy, the purchase of these bags benefit Dress for Success! Now you have even more reason to order one. (As if you needed it!)

Actually, our Executive Director here at the Dress for Sucess Vancouver affiliate is awaiting the arrival of her own right now!

Click here for more info and to purchase the fabulous Funchico!

Dress for Success Vancouver wins the Lublin Award!

C.E.O. of Dress for Success World Wide, Joi Gordon, with Vancouver Executive Director, Deborah Twocock

Late last month, Dress for Success Vancouver Executive Director, Deborah Twocock, journeyed to Washington D.C. to attend the Dress for Success World Wide affiliate conference. The conference invites a representative from every Dress for Success affiliate (all 113 of them) to learn best practices, introduce new initiatives and develop leadership skills.

This year, Vancouver was the proud recipient of the Lublin Award, the most prestigious award given to affiliates, named after Dress for Success's founder, Nancy Lublin.

The PERFECT summer skirt!

Just this afternoon we received word from one of our lovely volunteers Tasia Pona, about a very special collaboration she is involved in with a digital print and fabric designer, Jasonda Desmond.

Jasonda, with Dotty Logic and was kind enough to donate her fabric made from organic cotton, while Tasia used her sewing skills to create a utterly fabulous skirt! The best thing about this project, is that all proceeds are going towards Dress for Success Vancouver!

Here are some pictures:

This is the adorable Tasia modelling the skirt:
For more pictures and info, check out Tasia's Sewaholic blog here: http://sewaholic.net/coral-garden-skirt-mccalls-5803-fabric-by-dotty-logic/

And to purchase the skirt on Dotty Logic's online Etsy store, click here: http://www.etsy.com/listing/51475024/coral-garden-skirt-all-proceeds-to

And rememeber all proceeds go to us here at Dress for Success Vancouver!

THANK YOU TASIA AND JASONDA!