Exclusive | Teenagers everywhere travel to New York to find the party’s party dress, for free, in Giveaway: “I love the way I look”

Kamila Gomez, thirteen, was so happy with the dark green dress and the satin who chose Saturday who kept her and left her dress, tiara, clutch and high heels she had chosen.

“I love how to look,” Gómez said in the publication while leaving the church.

Best of all, it was free, thanks to Winnie’s closet.

For the tenth consecutive year, the free party dress unit appeared in Brooklyn to offer girls a selection of formal dresses and accessories, items that usually cost hundreds of dollars.

“Prom is a special day and they do more special. So I am very happy,” Giselle Acevedo said in the publication after his daughter chose his gaze, bright accessories and a room in the back of the Baptist Church of Mount Sion, where many of the volunteers come from.

“I feel great because sometimes you have no money to go out and buy all these things together. So you know, help. Resources like this are very helpful for the family.”

He spoke of the free party dress and accessory to his daughter’s school in Highland Park and took her to Crown Heights in the hope of finding the perfect dress.

Thing they did.

Gomez tried various styles, but he quickly fell in love with the long dress he threw. When she left the right tent to show her mother, the room exploded in punches and Hollers while volunteers damaged the teenager.

“There are so many people who make me so many compliments. I just can’t do it,” he said smiling.

She was just one Almost 100 girls to leave the Mount Sion Baptist Church in a free dress and accessories prepared for promotion.

Danielle Carlor, seventeen, was a little nervous for her to find nothing to coincide with her style, so she really appreciated having women with similar ideas to help her.

He said he “felt comforting to know that other people are on the same boat. Knowing that we are all here looking for a dress we need.”

Now that he has chosen his dress, a light green velvet number, he feels “relieved and less anxious” at the end of the school year, now he knows at least he wears a beautiful dress for promotion.

An “excited” but “a little overflow”, Ivie Myers, who came from Ocean Hill with his grandmother, also moved away in a free party dress.

“It was great to make a gift of whole dance dresses,” the 17 -year -old was told The Post.

“I was, like” my God, this is many dresses. “Like a lot. You just have a dress, so it’s, like, wow, that’s nervous.”

That is why she was especially grateful for the “extremely useful” volunteers who burned her in her bright green dress.

“Everyone was very nice. I had someone who came right away and wondering what I was looking for. He even helped me put on my dress. Everyone was very sweet,” the teenager said.

Winnie’s wardrobe has helped girls find their dream outfit for free since 2015. Sabrina Wallington-Taylor started for the first time the endangers buying dresses for some of her daughter’s school girls after her daughter, Whynter-“ Winnie ”-he learned that several of her classmates couldn’t afford promotional dresses.

Each year, the event became larger as the word extended. The more girls began to attend, the more volunteers signed up to help them and the more community dresses were collected.

They have even been associated with local wedding stores and other stores for donations. Wallington-Taylor and its crew also host several emerging shops throughout the year to raise funds for the event.

The girls have come from Pennsylvania to comb -through the racks and shoe tables and purses.

During the last decade, Wallington-Taylor has turned Winnie’s closet into a pillar of the community and hopes to keep it like this. Donations and sponsorships have begun to decrease slowly, but the ladies – and a few men – who run the event will not disappoint the girls, even if it means giving their own items or money to the unit.

And they are not just the girls who have a great time. Volunteers also enjoy the experience.

“I am only humiliated by the whole experience,” he told The Post Wallington-Taylor.

Mary McNeil, the designated photographer trying to make a head of all the girls in her dress in front of a backdrop of the balloon wall, flies from South Carolina just to help them.

He used to live in the area and began to help the “amazing” emerging boutique five years ago. When he moved to the south, he decided he did not want to give up and now reserve a plane ticket to return every spring.

“Many children of children cannot get them beautiful dresses, and some of these are brand things that I cannot afford,” McNneil told The Post.

She especially likes to “see the lit face” when they find her favorite dress.

Shelesea Sheard, who collaborated with Winnie’s closet to offer accessories and makeup, appreciate helping girls choosing accessories and makeup as a final touch.

“I love to make the other girls feel good about themselves,” he told The Post. “Promoting confidence, self-esteem, only everything, because I did it for myself. So I know that pressing other girls to do so is an incredible feeling.”

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