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Aloha High School junior organizes a fashion show and prom dress giveaway








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Aloha High School junior organizes a fashion show and prom dress giveaway





ALOHA -- Prom was still three months away. But what's the point in dreaming, Jazmin Worthey thought. She'd never be able to afford a dress.
Worthey -- an Aloha High School junior with big blue-green eyes and an even bigger smile -- had gone to the mall. She had looked online. Every dress she fell in love with cost at least $200. But her mom is disabled and can't work, and the money Worthey earns working at Papa Murphy's Pizza only goes so far.
She knew about Abby's Closet -- the nonprofit started by a West Linn teen that gives away dresses to high schoolers -- but Portland, where Abby's Closet holds its annual giveaway, can feel a world away for Washington County teenagers. Aloha needs its own closet, Worthey thought. She couldn't be the only person without a dress.
So the 17-year-old started planning. Her family doesn't have a car or a computer, but in only a month, she's organized a fashion show and a dress giveaway to be held April 1. Any high school student can attend and pick out a free dress after the show.
When Worthey first told her best friend, 15-year-old Kylie Fraser, about her plans, Fraser thought she was crazy.
Adopt-a-Dress Fashion Show
What: Free dress giveaway and fashion show. Any high school girl can pick out a dress for free.
When: 6:45 p.m. April 1
Where: Aloha High School gym, 18550 S.W. Kinnaman Road
For information, or to donate a dress: fayemarie1993@gmail.com
"I thought, 'Oh Ball gowns, brother White prom dresses, this is going to be interesting. I don't know if it's going to work,'" Fraser said.
Worthey is in a marketing class, and Fraser said her friend often has talked about becoming a professional event planner. But Worthey had never planned an event, and Fraser thought the dress giveaway was a wild, momentary dream that Worthey soon would forget.
"But she didn't," Fraser said. "And I'm glad she didn't, because it's really fun. She brought it up it at lunch to everyone, and they were way into it."
Worthey thought of everything: The 50 dresses she has so far range from size 2 to 18. She has dresses that stretch to the floor and dresses short enough to make fathers blush. She even has a few dresses with sleeves for the more modest students.
jazmin_worthey2.JPGView full sizeFAITH CATHCART/The OregonianErin Reger, 15 (left) Bridesmaid dresses, gets a hand with her dress from Cheyanne Burt, 15, while Jazmin Worthey (right) helps the rest of the models for her prom dress giveaway. Worthey has scheduled several fittings with the dozens of dresses she has collected from local stores and friends.
Aloha High students donated most of the pieces, and Emporio Bridal & Formal gave 15 new gowns. Worthey crafted a motto -- "No cute dress should go to waste" -- that wouldn't make students feel like the event was only for people with no money.
Last week, Worthey was holding court in the Aloha High girls' restroom. A dozen or so teens filtered in and out of stalls, trying on dresses to decide who would model which dress during the fashion show. Worthey was wearing a walking boot after fracturing her foot while practicing for dance-team tryouts Yellow prom dresses, so she limped between the portable clothing rack and the mirror.
Crystal Gullings Formal dresses, a senior, was the first model. She walked out of a stall wearing a short, silvery-purple dress with a crisscross pattern.
"What do you think? You like it?" Worthey asked her.
Gullings Sliver prom dresses, 17, looked in the mirror. She turned around a few times then said, "Yeah. It's cute!"
"I like your hair down with it," Worthey said. "I love the curliness. I'm thinking maybe a drop necklace. Heels or flats?"
Sophomore Brooke Arnold walked out next Black prom dresses, eyeing herself in the mirror as she left the stall. She wore a floor-length, satiny brown dress with a low neckline and a lot of jewels.
"Do you like it?" Worthey asked.
Arnold, 15, tried to look excited, but Worthey could sense a hesitation.
"If you don't like the dress, it's OK," she told Arnold. "We'll find one."
"There's just too much blingage Green prom dresses," Arnold said.
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Worthey limped to the dress rack to look for a new dress for Arnold. Fraser, a freshman, pulled out a floor-length turquoise number.
"This mermaid dress is legit," she said.
"I have a mermaid and a Cleopatra," Worthey said. She pulled out another turquoise dress, this one with gold-plated metal beads around the neckline.
Fraser jumped around, then grabbed the "Cleopatra."
"Oh my god, can I please wear this one?" she asked before disappearing into a stall.
Worthey looked through the rack for a dress for Arnold. She exhaled deeply. She still had a lot to do before the fashion show and dress giveaway on April 1. She wanted to call the Northwest College of Beauty and ask if the students would do the models' hair on show day. She still didn't have a dress for herself, so she probably wouldn't go to prom.
But in that moment, she didn't care. Three models had just left their stalls and were standing in front of the mirror looking beautiful. For now Cocktail dresses, she was making other teens' dream come true.






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