Single mothers in Northwest Arkansas are helping make prom memorable for high school girls in the area.
Saturday’s “ Gown-tastic ” event offered free dresses, accessories and raffle tickets for free hairstyling and makeup, KNWA-TV reported.
“Every teen deserves to have the prom dress of their dreams, and that’s our goal here,” Becky Luther, executive director for the drive, told KHBS-TV . “So if we can get even a few girls to feel like they’re floating on cloud nine at their prom, then we’ve done something good.”
The Gown-tastic website noted on March 5 that 550 dresses had been donated.
The women who organized the giveaway got the idea for the “ bougie event ” after a post was made on NWA Single Mom’s Club, a private group on Facebook .
Becky Luther, who runs the Facebook group, is the director and event coordinator for Gown-tastic .
One woman posted on Luther’s Facebook group that her daughter would not be able to attend her prom because she could not afford a dress, KNWA reported.