Prom Dress Shops In Kent
John Clarke Russ | BDN
["1616.99"]Kourtney Clendenning (left), 16, and Shawna Dakin (right), 16, of Searsport peered through the window to get a bastard aiguille afore the doors opened at 8 a.m. for the 6th anniversary Cinderella Activity of Maine brawl dress betrayal at Reny's Plaza in Belfast Saturday morning, April 9, 2011.
John Clarke Russ | BDN
A cut-out Cinderella is reflected in the window as dozens of breadth highschoolers waited for the doors to accessible for the 6th anniversary Cinderella Activity of Maine brawl dress betrayal at Reny's Plaza in Belfast Saturday morning.
John Clarke Russ | BDN
Maryellen Applebee (left), 15, a Bangor Aerial Academy freshman, gets acknowledgment from her her mom, Darla Applebee as they chase for the absolute brawl dress during the 6th anniversary Cinderella Activity of Maine brawl dress betrayal at Reny's Plaza in Belfast Saturday morning, April 9, 2011.
John Clarke Russ | BDN
Maria Hustus (left), 17, of Searsport and Hannah Betit (right), 17, of Searsport get advice with their brawl dress selections from acquaintance and advance Alicia Lane (center) of Searsport during the 6th anniversary Cinderella Activity of Maine brawl dress betrayal at Reny's Plaza in Belfast Saturday morning, April 9, 2011.
["921.5"]John Clarke Russ | BDN
Organizers Mandie Sawyer (left) and Jess Woods batten to the dozens of boyish girls lined up afore the doors opened at 8 a.m. for the 6th anniversary Cinderella Activity of Maine brawl dress betrayal at Reny's Plaza in Belfast Saturday morning, April 9, 2011.
BELFAST, Maine — By 7:30 a.m. Saturday hundreds of boyish girls stood in an afraid band abreast the bounded Renys, cat-and-mouse and acquisitive to acquisition the perfect, chargeless brawl dress.
Friends Mariah, Shawna and Hannah were aboriginal in line. They got there at 7 a.m. The doors didn’t accessible to the Cinderella Project’s sixth anniversary brawl dress betrayal until 8 a.m.
“We’ve been staring at [the doors] for an hour,” said 16-year-old Shawna Dakin of Searsport.
She and her two girlfriends knew absolutely which dresses would leave with them. Mariah Hustus, 18, of Searsport was activity to booty a dejected beastly book clothes with rhinestones beyond the waist — for sure.
But afore she could snatch it off the headless mannequin that stood in what a day afore had been an abandoned storefront, organizers of the accident had to lay bottomward some arena rules about how abounding girls were accustomed in at a time and how abounding dresses were accustomed in the bathrobe allowance at one time.
["1940"]“This is the better assembly we’ve anytime had. I’m so happy,” organizer Mandie Sawyer yelled to the band on Saturday morning. The Cinderella Activity aims to accord gowns to any babe who needs one for a prom, free. The activity takes donations at declivity sites about the accompaniment all year and afresh gives them all abroad in April.
By 8 a.m. dozens of girls abounding in to aces through a dozen racks of gowns.
Volunteer Amber Reynolds of Morrill anchored by the bathrobe room, administration the austere two-dresses-per-girl rule. Saturday apparent her third year volunteering for the project.
“I ambition I had this aback I was in aerial school. Dresses are so expensive. I anticipate it’s abundant all these girls get the befalling to go to prom,” Reynolds said. “Some of these girls can’t allow a dress. Aerial academy is all about how you look, and if they don’t accept a dress they won’t go.”
The activity asks the girls to accompany the dresses aback to accord abroad afresh the abutting year. Reynolds spotted a billowy ablaze dejected dress in the line.
“That dress has been actuality for years,” she said. The girls aloof accumulate cutting it and bringing it back.
Not 30 account afterwards the doors opened accompany Mariah Hustus and Hannah Betit, 17, of Belfast had their dresses captivated in artificial and accessible to booty home. But the dejected beastly book wasn’t in Hustus’ hand, as she’d said it would be. It was blind from Betit’s arm.
["129.01"]“We switched,” Hustus said. Afore the two girls had entered the bathrobe room, they’d collapsed in adulation with anniversary other’s gowns.
Hustus took home a dejected brawl gown.
“I was acquisitive to acquisition one because it’s my chief brawl and I capital a brawl gown,” Hustus said.
As the accompany absolved out, mother Monique Whitcomb of Belfast confused through some dresses as she waited for her 17-year-old daughter, Kendra Kirby, to appear out of the bathrobe room.
“It’s a abundant program,” Whitcomb said. “The dresses are alone beat already — they’re around brand-new.”
After a minute, her babe stepped out of the applicable allowance in a long, gray gown.
“You attending like Cinderella, honey.”
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