Dress for Success Hamilton's 10-year anniversary gala ball will be a huge celebration, say organisers.
The organisation's journey and its many success stories will be celebrated on November 17 with the ball and dinner at The Meteor theatre, says executive manager K-M Adams.
Hamilton News joined K-M and founding member Margaret Fraser last week as they discussed where the organisation began and how it's grown during the past decade.
Margaret said if she knew how much work there would be establishing the organisation she might never have got involved. "It took longer than the gestation of an elephant," she says.
She says the set-up involved bringing "lots of strands together", including arranging donations of clothing, obtaining racks, premises, referrals of women, buy-in from referrers such as Work and Income and community groups and, of course, funding.