Donating Dresses: Background information when reading Lucky

Donating Dresses

This article relates to Lucky

Lucky's cover features a lime-green dream dress that Phoebe plans to wear to her over-the-top 8^th grade graduation party. That beautiful dress, the way it makes Phoebe feel when she tries it on, and the way it makes her feel when she realizes that her parents can no longer afford to buy it for her, embodies Phoebe's expectations and disappointments throughout the novel.

Many organizations work to make sure that every girl, no matter her economic situation, can feel beautiful in her own dream dress at the prom, dance or graduation party. These groups collect and distribute gently worn, clean and stylish prom, bridesmaid, and party dresses. Here's a list of some of these groups in the U.S. and Canada:

• Fairy Godmothers, Phoenix, Virginia Beach, Fort Myers, Victor New York.
• The Princess Project, San Diego and Bay Area, California.
• The Sequin Dreams Project, Tallahassee, Florida: sequindreams@hotmail.com.
• The Glass Slipper Project, Chicago, Illinois.
• The Fairy Godmother Project, Portland, Maine: fairygodmotherproject1@hotmail.com.
• The Cinderella Project, New Hampshire.
• Fairy Godmother Project, Houston.
• The Priceless Gown Project, Maryland.
• Operation Fairy Dust, New York City.
• The Ruby Room, Seattle, Washington.
• Ballroom-Blitz, Utopia ON.

For more websites or information on starting your own project visit The Glass Slipper Project.

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This "beyond the book article" relates to Lucky. It originally ran in August 2008 and has been updated for the April 2009 paperback edition. Go to magazine.