For the first time since partnering in 2017, the Association of the U.S. Army and Operation Deploy Your Dress are teaming up to bring a pop-up event to military and family members in Hawaii.

The two-day event at Schofield Barracks will take place May 13–14 in conjunction with AUSA’s LANPAC Symposium and Exposition in Honolulu.

Volunteers from AUSA and Operation Deploy Your Dress will welcome military or dependent ID card holders of all ranks and services, regardless of where they’re stationed.

Participants will receive one dress, and they will be able to try on the dresses in a fitting room.

The popular event and the dresses are free, and registration is not required.

“AUSA Family Readiness and AUSA’s Hawaii chapter are thrilled to bring the popular Operation Deploy Your Dress event to Schofield Barracks,” said Holly Dailey, AUSA’s Family Readiness director. “We look forward to seeing military and family members there, and we will have hundreds of dresses ready to deploy.”

The walk-in event is open from 4:30–8 p.m. Hawaii time on May 13, and from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on May 14 in the 604 Banquet & Conference Center on Schofield Barracks.

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AUSA, led by the Hawaii chapter, and Operation Deploy Your Dress also are collecting dresses for the upcoming event. Donated items can be dropped off at three locations. They are First Command’s Aiea office near Pearl Ridge Mall; Guaranteed Rate at 820 West Hind Drive, Suite 1293 in Honolulu; and Hui O’ Na Wahine Thrift Shop at 2107 Ulrich Way in Wahiawa.

Operation Deploy Your Dress was founded in late 2015 at Fort Bliss, Texas, by a group of military spouses who organized a dress swap to lessen the cost of formal wear for holiday balls. The idea quickly grew into an organization run by dozens of volunteers, offering gently used dresses and accessories to military members and dependents.

The group now has 14 shops across the U.S. and one in Germany, and in the past six years has given away more than 35,000 gowns, saving military families $3 million, according to the organization’s website.

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