Students sew dresses from pillowcases for girls in need
Students in Rolling Meadows High School’s fashion design class, Family, Career and Community Leaders of America and Amnesty International joined forces this spring to create dresses from pillowcases for little girls in emerging nations with the project, Dress a Girl Around the World.
Teacher and FCCLA sponsor Kimmi Drendel guided R.M.H.S. students in the sewing and humanitarian effort.
The goal was to make 55 dresses, but Drendel received 75 pillowcases, mostly donated by the community.
Each case has been transformed into a “functional, fashionable dress for a little girl who often may not own a single piece of clothing,” described Drendel.
Students formed an assembly line to cut and sew the dresses after school.
Rolling Meadows High School fashion design class students sew dresses after school.
Courtesy of District 214
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