Thirteen -year -old Kamila Gomez was so happy with dark green, satin dress she chose on Saturday that she kept her and left her in a dress, matching Tiara, herd of embedded jewel and high heels she would choose.
“I love the way I look,” Gomez told the post as she came out of the church radiation.
Best of all, it was free – thanks to Winnie’s closet.
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For 10 years in a row, Drive Free Dress Prom appeared in Brooklyn to offer girls a selection of official clothing and accessories – items that usually cost hundreds of dollars.
“The prom is a special day, and they are making it extra special. So I’m really happy,” Giselle Acevedo The Post told after her daughter chose her appearance, shiny accessories and all from a room in the back of the Baptiste Mount Sion church, from where many volunteers come.
“I feel good because sometimes you have no money to go out and buy all these things together. So you know, it helps. Resources like this are really useful to the family.”
She heard about the free dress of promoting and running accessories through her daughter’s school in Highland Park and brought her to Crown Heights in the hope of finding the perfect dress.
Thing they did.
Gomez tried with some styles, but soon fell in love with the long dress she drew. When she came out of the tent appropriate to tell her mother, the room exploded in Hoots and Holers while volunteers tried above the teenager.
“There are so many people who give me so many compliments. I just can’t handle it,” she said, smiling.
It was just one of Nearly 100 girls to leave the Baptiste Mount Zion church with a free dress and accessories ready for prom.
Seventeen -year -old Danielle Carlor was a bit nervous that she would find nothing that matched her style, so she really appreciated that she had the same -minded women and girls around her.
She said “she felt comforting to know that other people are in the same boat. Knowing that we are all here looking for a dress we need.”
Now that she has chosen her dress-a number of velvet with green light-she feels “relieved and less anxious” for the end of the school year, now that she at least knows she has worn a beautiful dress to promise.
A “excited” but “slightly overloaded” Ivie Myers, who came from Ocean Hill with her grandmother, also left with a free prom dress.
“It was really interesting that they were making a whole prom,” 17-year-old The Post told.
“I was, like,” Oh, my Lord, that’s a lot of clothing. “
That is why she was especially grateful to the “extremely useful” volunteers who plunged her into her green, shiny dress.
“Everyone was really beautiful. I had someone to come to me right away and ask me what I was looking for. She even helped me wear my outfit. Everyone was really sweet,” the teen said.
Winnie’s closet has helped girls find their dreams of free dreams since 2015. Sabrina Wallington-Taylor initially started trying out some of the girls at her daughter’s school after her daughter, Wyntter “Winnie” learned that some of her peers could not afford promotions.
Yeardo year, the event became bigger as the word spread. While more girls began to attend, more volunteers were registered to help, and more clothing gathered from the community.
They have even partned with local wedding shops and other shops to receive donations. Wallington-Taylor and its crew also expect some pop-up boutiques throughout the year to raise funds for the event.
The girls have come from Pennsylvania to comb on the shelves and tables of shoes and bags.
Over the last decade, Wallington-Taylor has turned the Winnie closet into a community pillar and hopes to keep it that way. Donations and sponsorships are slowly starting to reduce, but ladies – and some men – running the event will not allow girls down, even if it means donating their items or money in the car.
And it’s not just girls who have a good time. Volunteers fully enjoy the experience.
“I’m just humbled from all the experience,” Wallington-Taylor told The Post.
Mary McNeil, a certain photographer trying to take a moment of every girl in her dress in front of a back wall with balloons, flies from South Carolina just to help.
She lived in the area and first began to help the “stunning” pop-up boutique five years ago. When she moved to the south, she decided that she did not want to give up and now the books of a plane ticket to return every spring.
“Many parents of children are unable to get those beautiful dresses, and some of these are the brand of names that I can’t afford,” McNeil The Post told.
She especially likes “seeing their faces light up” when they find their favorite dress.
Shelesea Sheard, who collaborated with Winnie’s closet to deliver accessories and composition, helping girls choose accessories and composition as final touches.
“I like to make the other girls feel good with themselves,” she told the post. “Increasing faith, self -esteem, just everything” because I did it myself. So I know it drives other girls to do so, it’s an amazing feeling. “
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