Prom attire

[melodylee]

looks like several of us all had the same opinion at the same time!

 

[mamagardener]

I know a new dress can be expensive, but a lot of towns now do Cinderella projects.
The woman I work with does it every year, she gets people to donate formal dresses and accesorries that they have no need for anymore. She then sells them for 20 dollars each, no matter how much the dress cost originally. She gets some really beautiful dresses. The proceeds go to charity. Each year a new one is picked. It is a win win situation. Someone gives to charity and someone gets a beautiful dress, and everyone is happy.

I almost always am in jeans, but it is nice to dress up and go somewhere fun sometimes. That's what is nice about a prom, getting to see how nicely everyone cleans up, and showing off how nice you can look.

 

[Feathered Wings]

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I agree with this go be yourself be comfortable and not spend a kings ransom

 

[Whispering Winds]

Actually, I think prom should be at least a sports jacket for the guys and a pretty party dress for the girls, although studs and chains IF chosen carefully might work . . .no one dresses to go to church anymore either, so guess Prom is no different. I just have a thing about school functions. Prom to me means party, and party in this case means nice clothes. Tee's and jeans are so common that it would seem to me to be fun to get out of character and show a new side of myself.

 

[wegotchickens]

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Either, really. And this is for 8th Grade Prom.

DD brought up what the emo's & goths were going to wear and I got in trouble for saying this was prom, not Halloween

Sorry. I'm usually more tactful but I knew DD wanted to wear black eyeshadow and I am sooo not supporting that for her.


A girl got approval to wear a suit / tuxedo.
Boys did NOT get approval for kilts, even the one with Scottish heritage who wanted to wear dad's old kilt.

Chains are not allowed, they are labled as weapons.

One young man cannot afford much, and will come in new jeans and a dress shirt. I don't have a problem with that. We're in the country, so a new pair of jeans & clean cowboy boots are considered dressing up for many people.
But another girl's $200 'designer' ripped up jeans got her "frowned upon" last year (why ANYONE would spend big bucks on trashed jeans is beyond me).

The kids this year were asked to look nice. What a subjective term! Also, they were asked to not wear 'revealing or risque attire'. Again, subjective.

 

[redhen]

I said a kilt was okay...
well..if the kids were asked too just look nice..then a new pair of jeans and shirt is fine!!!

but all the other ...no..not acceptable at all.

 

[dntd]

As long as the attire isn`t degrading ( shirts with saying) anything should go, kids have differant tastes, a kilt is formal ware and if denied a lawsuit should occure, that`s just plain wrong.

 

[patnjess]

kilts can be very nice, and look hot!!! that is of course unless the guy has chicken legs.

the other options are not options IMO, but I am a mean mom.

 

[wegotchickens]

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I think the school officials were more comfortable with a girl in a suit than they were with the concept of a boy in skirt. I know that's not what a kilt is but they may not.
Although DD says there's a boy who wears a skirt every day and everyone thinks he's a girl (she went to school with him in his 'boy' days at primary school).

I was surprised the girl got permission to wear a tux. But I do know that her mother insisted she add feminine touches to make it less androgynous.

 

[saddina]

I wouldn't have an issue with the kilt or tux. Chains and spikes weren't allowed when i went as they could do damage in a fight.