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When Nancy Lubin got $5,000 from her great-grandfather, she never once considered taking a vacation or paying off students loan. 1 , the 24-year-old New York University law student began thinking about the clothing 2 faced by the typical 3 women: “If she goes for a job interview 4 dressed, she won't get the job,” Lubin says. “But without a job, she can't 5 proper clothing.”
A few weeks later, Lubin founded Dress for Success and began searching for clothing and volunteers. She asked women to donate (捐献) 6 business clothes that were 7 in good condition. She asked members of diet centers to give away clothes that no longer 8 . At first Lubin 9 the clothes in her one-bedroom apartment. Finally she found 10 in Greenwich Village church basement, which now 11 as the organization's main office.
Today, when women arrive at the office----referred to by shelters and job-training programs----they 12 a suit, shoes, a bag, stocking and jewelry, and self-confidence, as well. Some are trying to enter the work 13 after being on welfare (福利) for years. 14 Dress for Success fitted its first person who got help a year and a half ago, more than 1,000 women have received suits----and many have won jobs. Yarit Polanco was recently hired 15 a law firm office manager. “Because of Dress for Success, I made a good 16 ,” she says.
Donations are now streaming in, including jewelry and 6,000 pairs of trousers and $40,000 worth of handbags. Broadcast journalists have given suits. And Lubin, who has put her law studies on hold, is opening Dress for Success 17 in other cities.
“So many women have clothes 18 around that they'll never 19 again,” says a volunteer. “Nancy's idea is so simple and so important to the women who 20 from it.”
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