Bibbity Bobbity Boo
I had two prom dresses. They were sort of wonderful, really, very prom-y, all satin and tulle and matching shoes with rhinestones. They were Jessica McClintock. It was all very glam.
That was in 2003. Since then, one of the dresses (the red one with the embroidery) was lost forever, lent to a friend of a friend of my sister’s who either disappeared off the face of the earth or just stopped being friends with my sister’s friend, same difference. The other one has been sitting in my closet, gathering dust. I wore it once more, to a Hall Council formal in college, but it looked frankly absurd. Plus, I’m fatter than I used to be. Not a lot. But a little.
Anyway, the point is, when I went home last week I pulled it out and was trying to figure out what to do with it, when I remembered hearing about the Fairy Godmother Project, which provides gently-used dresses (and matching shoes, I imagine) to chicks who need them for their own proms and formals. Is that not the awesomest, nicest, most pay-it-forwardest thing you’ve ever heard?
I brought the dress back to the apartment, and later today I’m going to haul the giant thing on the train to the Boston Public Library and do some donatin’. I love the idea of getting it out of my house–and into someone else’s prom pictures.
Peach Schnapps and girlfights not included.