KALI­FA SARAH CLYNE

The As­so­ci­a­tion of Fe­male Ex­ec­u­tives (AFETT) will be host­ing its an­nu­al Suit Me Up event on Sat­ur­day at the Cruise Ship Com­plex au­di­to­ri­um in Port-of-Spain from 10 am to 4 pm. The event will be used to com­mem­o­rate the or­gan­i­sa­tion's tenth an­niver­sary.

Di­rec­tor of com­mu­ni­ca­tions Shelly Ann Lovell-Williams says the event will tar­get young women who are just get­ting in­to the world of work and ca­reers and who may not have or be able to af­ford a full pro­fes­sion­al wardrobe. "Be­fore the event we col­lect light­ly used, near­ly new work­ing clothes. We dry clean them and have them re­stored and sell them at a re­duced cost," said Lovell-Williams. This year the event will al­so in­clude cloth­ing from lo­cal de­sign­ers and fash­ion hous­es.

She said the ac­tu­al event will al­so be dif­fer­ent this year. "It's go­ing to be like a girls' day out," said Lovell-Williams. "Nor­mal­ly peo­ple would come in and do their shop­ping, then leave, but this year we have a lot of ac­tiv­i­ties." These will in­clude a red bag auc­tion, where spe­cial­ly se­lect­ed cloth­ing will be put in­to a red bag and par­tic­i­pants will be en­cour­aged to bid on the con­tents. Par­tic­i­pants will al­so be giv­en dis­counts for danc­ing and sev­er­al times through­out the day an "ex­ec­u­tive bell" will be sound­ed and cus­tomers at cash­ing sta­tion will re­ceive dis­counts or free mer­chan­dise. There will al­so be a Suit Me Up Tree, AFETT's ver­sion of a Christ­mas Tree, which will al­low par­tic­i­pants to make do­na­tions to AFETT's men­tor­ship pro­gramme. Part of the pro­ceeds from the event will be do­nat­ed to a char­i­ta­ble or­gan­i­sa­tion.