Clothing Donations

Donation Requirements
Wardrobe for Opportunity relies on clothing donations to ensure we have the inventory to appropriately dress our clients for work. Our clients often leave our shop to go directly to an interview. For this reason, please follow our clothing donation guidelines:

All clothing must be clean, dry-cleaned, washed or ironed and on a hanger. This ensures that it will arrive at our shop without wrinkles. (Some of our clients do not have irons, and they can not afford dry-cleaning at this time).

Clothing must be in good condition, with no stains, moth holes, buttons missing, rips or tears, or broken zippers.

Clothing must be in current style and suitable for the workplace. We always need basic colors such as black, brown, navy, and white. In addition to suits, jackets, shirts, and dresses, we greatly appreciate accessories such as shoes, belts, jewelry, handbags, and unopened cosmetis. We have a special need for coats, umbrellas and plus-sized suits for women and big and tall suits for men.

We do not accept lingerie or casual clothing. Business casual clothing is acceptable. We do not distribute evening wear, but we can sell evening wear to consignment stores and use the profit for our program.

Thank you so much for helping jobseekers gain the self-confidence, self-esteem and skills that are so critical on their path to economic independence.

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Suit and Accessory Drives
We appreciate the many suit drives that are conducted on our behalf. If you are interested in hosting a suit or accessories drive, please contact our Clothing Coordinator prior to your event to ensure that we have room for your donations and so we can ensure that you are collecting the items that we need. We also have materials that will make it easy for you to coordinate a successful drive. Accessory drives for jewelry, handbags, or coats are a terrific option too!