To a bunch of adolescents living at the Nell Smith Residence for Girls, 16-year-old Kirby Jacobs is a modern day saint and hero. However, before originally founding Cinderella’s Closet, a charity that collects prom dresses and other clothes for the lesser privileged, Jacobs was just your average teen.
“She came home from school one day at the end of the year and told me about this idea she had. Kirby has a real flair for fashion and gets that she lives a very privileged life, as do her friends,” Susie Straus Jacobs wrote of her daughter.
A student of Spanish River High School, the smile on a little girl’s face is more than enough payment for all the hard work she’s done throughout the year. After persuading the teachers to leave out boxes to collect dresses from other students, within the first two weeks of school, she had more than 250 dresses at her disposal. With the help of the Teen Angel store in the Delray Beach community, she has been giving away clothes since September.
Girls aged between 13 and 17 attending schools in West Palm Beach were brought to Veterans Park to relish in a neat, yet overwhelming amassing of high quality clothes. For periods of time, all you could hear were the soft noise of elation alongside the bright eyes of girls given the opportunity to be…well girls.
“We know we’re so lucky and privileged to have these dresses, and to get a new dress every year, and we wanted to let everyone have that experience. Every girl deserves to feel beautiful,” are the words of Jacob herself.
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