Ashley Hasty Talks About Purple Dress Project at California Elementary Character Assembly

The Purple Dress Project Founder Ashley Hasty is surrounded by California Elementary School students wearing purple in support of her at the character assembly.
The Purple Dress Project Founder Ashley Hasty is surrounded by California Elementary School students wearing purple in support of her at the character assembly.

At the weekly character assembly held at California Elementary Ashley Hasty was the guest speaker. Hasty is a soon to graduate University of Missouri, Columbia, doctoral student in fashion who started The Purple Dress Project. For the month of April Hasty wore the same purple dress in different fashions to bring awareness to the issue of Crohn's Disease, a cause which is personal for her.

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Matthew Taylor, owner of Section 8, with some of his own t-shirt designs.

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Section 8.

For more of this story check out the May 4 issue of the California Democrat.