It’s prom season! Many Logan ladies have already started looking for dresses, searching day and night to find the perfect dress. As we all know, prom dresses can be very pricey. Some can go up to $600.00 and even higher, but some girls can’t afford to pay so much for a dress. Here at Logan, there is a perfect way to find a dress with no cost — The Princess Project.
The Princess Project is a club ran by Ms. Tina Bobadilla and Ms. Gaby Esquivez that gives girls the opportunity to go and look at free, good quality prom dresses. The Princess Project is partnered with the WWOW organization — Winning With Other Women. WWOW, which helps put on this event along with many others, is a worldwide movement that seeks to inspire, help, and empower women to build a better life.
That help takes the form of dresses at Logan. Students may select a dress for prom to wear and keep. The women have the option of returning it after prom, but they may also keep it for future events
Before an interested woman starts looking for dresses, the ladies who help run the event go over the diverse size range, going from XS to a size 26, and explaining all the different styles they have to choose from. With this in mind, it gives girls, no matter shape or size, the opportunity to go and find their dress.
At the last meeting, girls went and viewed the dresses on the racks and went back with a hand full of dresses to try on.
“The dresses I tried on were mainly mermaid style, I also tried on a ballgown type of dress, but there were many other styles to choose from,” said senior Mareli Delgadillo.
Along with finding a dress, the girls had the option of choosing accessories too, including jewelry, a pair of heels, and a bag.
The Princess Project has helped many girls who can’t afford a prom dress find their dress. Ms.Bobadilla and Ms. Esquivez along with the other volunteers for the event, go out and try their best to find as many dresses as they can from different styles and sizes for the girls to try. The two teachers also accept donations of dresses and accessories throughout the year. Even if you don’t find a dress there, you will walk out with an idea of what you would want.
“Overall, I would recommend going to the Princess Project to look for dresses,” Senior Bridgett Diaz said. “I was able to try on various types of dresses to see what I liked and didn’t like, and in the end, I got a dress that was the exact style I wanted, along with some jewelry.”
