This week, the Fashion Club is holding a clothing drive for a local charity.
The club, which is new this year, is hosting a clothing drive for Faith Acres, a local charity. Students wishing to donate clothes can place them in a box in the main office until this Friday. Clothes must be in good condition, and in adult sizes.
“I think our fashion club is mainly about sharing just the passion for fashion with everyone who is interested, and really just having that community. That’s what I love about clubs, is just having people where you can just talk to just about that one thing, meet new people,” Josephine Millar, president of the Fashion Club and junior, said. “I feel what [that] has to do with the clothing drive is using clothing, and while the clothes that donate aren’t necessarily fashion, it’s still clothes. So I think giving to people in need is a way to share our passion with others.”
The club chose to give clothing drive donations to Faith Acres for its ties to the community.
“A priority of ours was to stay away from big chain stores, like Goodwill and Salvation Army. We wanted to find something a little bit more local in the community, just to make it a little bit more personal,” Courtney Callen, Family and Consumer Sciences teacher and Fashion Club sponsor, said. “So that’s how we found Faith Acres. And we’ll probably go through a similar process next year, of finding different places and narrowing it down.”
The club initially planned on holding the drive during winter break, but faced obstacles such as being overshadowed by 12 Days of Giving, as well as finding a charity that fit their criteria.
“The only issue with those places is that [sometimes] they don’t have […] a huge place to store clothes, so we kind of have to donate at a different time because we were going to do it before winter break, but they [were] full,” Callen said.
In addition to this week’s charity drive, the club plans to participate in a runway event hosted by Harper Community College at the end of the year that any member of Fashion Club can participate in.
Anyone in our club can make a full outfit, or they can make just an article of clothing or sew a whole outfit, they can really do whatever they want. And we’ll have a theme [for the runway]. It’s [going] to probably [be] a fairy tale or old Hollywood, super exciting. And so they’re able to create, like an outfit that has to do with that theme,” Callen said. “Then they get to do a little runaway with it, and they can have creative freedom with however they want to do it, and any circumstances that they that might be difficult for them, like if they don’t have like a sewing machine, for example, we can give them like fabric paint, and maybe they can create [an] article of clothing.”
