SIU senior and Chicago native Noeshia Washington has organized a prom dress collection and giveaway and already had collected 60 of the gowns. She is shown Friday with some of the gowns.
Some of the prom dresses Noeshia Washington, a senior social work major at Southern Illinois University, plans to give away in February 2018 as part of her Southern Illinois Project Prom.
Some of the prom dresses that will be given away during Southern Illinois Project Prom event in February 2018 at the Newman Center on the campus of SIU.
SIU senior and Chicago native Noeshia Washington is shown in December with prom dresses she collected for Southern Illinois Project Prom.
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SIU senior and Chicago native Noeshia Washington has organized a prom dress collection and giveaway and already had collected 60 of the gowns. She is shown Friday with some of the gowns.
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Noeshia Washington and Laconda Pullin with some of the prom dresses they have collected for giveaway to area high school seniors in February 2018.
Some of the prom dresses Noeshia Washington, a senior social work major at Southern Illinois University, plans to give away in February 2018 as part of her Southern Illinois Project Prom.
Some of the prom dresses that will be given away during Southern Illinois Project Prom event in February 2018 at the Newman Center on the campus of SIU.
CARBONDALE — Sparkly, long, elegant prom dresses, arranged in the colors of the rainbow, hang from clothes hangers secured to the walls of the living room of Noeshia Washington's apartment.
There is the tan one with the layers of tulle ruffles at the bottom, which looks olive green from a few feet away; the cobalt blue one with an overlay that cascades into a leopard print; the Size 0 one with the teal and orange rhinestones that is Washington's personal favorite because of the bling; the pink one with the heart cutout in the back that her friend had custom-designed.
