Decades ago, the Junior League of High Point opened and operated a JLHP Bargain Boutique.  This initiative made quality second-hand clothing available to community members at deeply discounted prices.  In 2002, through a collaboration between the Junior League of High Point and the High Point YWCA, the YWCA’s Women’s Resource Center was established, which included a women’s Career Closet.  The clothes that had once been available in the JLHP Bargain Boutique were made available to women in need through the YWCA’s Career Closet.  For nearly two decades, the YWCA’s Career Closet provided professional attire to women in High Point, which facilitated their entrance into and upward mobility within the work world.  When the YWCA closed the Career Closet our community’s women lost a valuable resource. One of the major goals of Working Wardrobe is to help fulfill women’s longstanding and currently unmet need for professional attire. By providing needed clothing, we believe that Working Wardrobe will help women in the High Point community find jobs, sustain employment, and advance professionally.  This could, by extension propel women and their families toward better lives filled with more economic independence, as well as improved mental and physical well-being.