Designer Gown Times 3-day sale kicks off Oct. 16 | Area News

Designer Gown Days’ 52nd once-a-year sale will begin Oct. 16.

Hosted by the Countrywide Council of Jewish Girls/Cleveland at Thriftique Showroom in Bedford Heights, the three-working day sale ending Oct. 18 will function brand names this kind of as Rag and Bone, Prada and Armani.

Athleisure apparel, contemporary designer styles and furs will also be showcased. Having said that, jewelry and extras will not be available at this year’s sale.

These attending the sale on Oct. 16 and Oct. 17 have to reserve a time slot in progress by calling 216-379-7238 shoppers coming into the retail store will be tallied on Oct. 18. Masks and social distancing are expected, and this calendar year, dressing rooms will be closed.

“That’s the one major alter,” claimed Kelly Markowitz of Solon, a vice president of retail functions for NCJW/CLE along with Debbie Rosenthal of Orange, both equally members of Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple in Beachwood. “Otherwise, it is the common clothes and every little thing, but we undoubtedly want to retain the security of most people.”

This year’s event will also function pandemic pricing, Markowitz said.

“It’s often been discounted, but this calendar year with the pandemic, we thought (we’d) make it a very little reduced and have even greater pricing just to kind of kick it out of the ballpark and make it a good party for the duration of this mad time,” she stated.

Markowitz claimed in earlier years the Mandel Jewish Community Heart in Beachwood has hosted the function, and the transfer to Thriftique Showroom was strategic. The location is smaller and will allow for workers far more manage around crowds.

“Because all the proceeds reward so lots of men and women – people and children and women in Northeast Ohio – we have been attempting to figure out ways in which we could make it occur no subject what,” Markowitz reported.

Designer Gown Days’ proceeds pay back for the organization’s volunteer actions, social justice function and educational programs. Initiatives emphasis on foster treatment, literacy enhancement and restoring dignity to sexual abuse victims as effectively as instructional and advocacy do the job for women’s legal rights, voter rights and human trafficking survivors.