Dress for Success was founded in New York City in 1996 to provide suits for women returning to work or entering the workplace for the first time. Dress for Success Cincinnati was founded by Mary Ivers in 1999 and offers the only lifelong, fully contained employ- ment support program for women in the Greater Cincinnati /Northern Kentucky Region. We are a part of a global network of DFS affiliates, and Portaluca is unique, as Cincinnati is the only affiliate to operate an earned-income boutique.