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MERCED, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) — The Cougar Closet offers dresses and suits to students astatine Golden Valley High School to assistance them consciousness other peculiar connected their prom night.
Merced's Golden Valley precocious schoolhouse students strutted down the runway.
"This is simply a large mode to like, consciousness assured successful yourself, to beryllium capable to beryllium like, I tin inactive spell to prom without having to walk a clump of wealth connected a dress," Ashley Lopez said.
Prom nighttime is 1 of the astir memorable milestones successful precocious school.
But for immoderate students, uncovering the close outfit tin beryllium pricey.
Ashley Lopez, a sophomore, volunteers astatine the Cougar Closet, a field assets that offers donated covering to students.
"I've been successful a spot wherever I didn't person overmuch and a batch of apparel and worldly wherever I was capable to get entree to that. And it made maine blessed that we person thing wherever radical tin get entree to that," Lopez said.
The Third Annual Cougar Closet, Prom Fashion Show is simply a accidental to radiance successful ceremonial attire.
Student Support Manager Kelly Budisch says pursuing the manner show, students tin publication backstage appointments to browse the Cougar Closet connected field for the cleanable prom formal oregon suit, for free.
"We person immoderate truly beauteous items for students to take. And truthful it truly conscionable benignant of reduces that stigma and makes it much amusive to store secondhand," Budisch said.
She says the extremity is to springiness students successful lower-income households an accidental to look and consciousness their champion connected prom night.
"It's conscionable truly astonishing to beryllium capable to springiness backmost and, you know, not fto that beryllium different contented that's holding them backmost from enjoying thing truly fun," Budisch said.
