Recycling Evening Wear Make Prom Dreams Come True
Thursday, March 18th, 2010Spring is here and prom season is around the corner. Ladies, if you’re in the mood to plow through your closets to do some spring cleaning, there’s a great way to recycle those gently used evening dresses that you’re vowing not to wear again.
The Las Vegas Prom Closet is a local program which collects gently used evening wear and gives them to high school girls who might otherwise miss their prom because they can’t afford to buy a dress. The organization started about seven years ago and has since provided about 1000 dresses, with shoes and accessories - for free - to help girls feel like a princess for that special day thanks to generous donations from closets like yours! If you’d like to donate your contemporary, gently used dresses and/or accessories - here’s a list of locations with some history of The Prom Closet. A couple of other easy locations to drop off dresses are the Humana Guidance Centers on the east side, 215 & Green Valley Pkwy. (Smith’s shopping center) and on the west side, Charleston & Rampart (behind Claim Jumper). Village East dry cleaners has generously donated dry cleaning services to spruce up the garments.
Volunteers staff, organize and run the closet each year. This year’s event will be Saturday, March 27 from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at UNLV’s Cox Pavillion, next to the Thomas and Mack, in the Practice Gym. CCSD school I.D. will be required. Parking is free. And so is the evening wear! If you know of a deserving student, pass along the info. Who knew something as simple as reycyling and reusing could make someone’s dreams come true?
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