Dress Shop Reopens, New Location For 2022 With Brand New Dresses

Oakton VA

24 March, 2022

10:33 AM

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Press release from Fairfax County Public Schools: March 23, 2022 Fairfax County Public School (FCPS) marketing students from Centreville High School and the Fair Oaks Classroom on the Mall program will open their Prom Dress Shop in a new location after being closed for the last two years due to the pandemic. This year the shop will open on Friday, March 25, at Centreville High School in Clifton instead of Fair Oaks Mall, where it was held for nearly two decades. In 2006, Centreville High School and Fair Oaks Classroom on the Mall students partnered together to collect dresses as a way to combine their interests in fashion with community service. The dress shop has helped hundreds of financially challenged students attend prom in style each spring by providing prom dresses and accessories at no cost to students. The marketing students apply the retail marketing and visual merchandising skills learned throughout the school year to transform their classroom into the Prom Dress Shop. "This is an excellent opportunity to accomplish several goals at once," said Miranda Schick, Centreville High School and Classroom on the Mall marketing teacher. "First, students apply marketing lessons learned to a real-world retail environment. Second, they support the School Board's goals of helping students succeed beyond the classroom through their 'Portrait of a Graduate'. This includes communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and global citizenship skills." The Prom Dress Shop is located in the modular classroom, near the stadium, in the student parking lot of Centreville High School, outside of door 12. Any area student, not just those from Fairfax County Public Schools, who do not have the funds to purchase a prom dress may choose from hundreds of new dresses donated by Macy's at Springfield Town Center. They must show a valid student ID, or other form of school identification, to select a free dress during the following store hours: Friday, March 25, 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.Saturday, March 26, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.Sunday, March 27, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.Friday, April 22, 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.Saturday, April 23, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.Sunday, April 24, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. ### For more information, contact Miranda Schick at 703-609-7404 or [email protected](link sends email). This press release was produced by Fairfax County Public Schools. The views expressed here are the author's own.