The whole prom thing has changed so much since I was a teenager.
My oldest daughter is a senior this year and she's really looking forward to her prom. She's bought her dress and her shoes already and now just needs a purse and jewelry and to get her roots touched up. Prom dresses are NOT what they were when I went. We both got green dresses, and thats the end of the similarities lol.
Hers is a dark green silky fabric, short, close fitting and strapless. It's this lightly shimmery stuff. It's really pretty on her and she paid a lot for it (she didnt tell me how much it was, she said I didn't want to know - she knows my shopping habits) The shoes are bronze and open toed zip backs and the highest heels I've ever seen. She looks great in the outfit, it sounds over the top, but it's not. Her fiance is renting a tux for the occasion, just a plain regular black one, and they are taking his sisters Escalade or whatever that Caddy SUV is. I don't know what they are going to do afterwards, I don't know if they have plans yet or what.
When I went, I didn't go to my prom because I went to a private Baptist school and we didn't have proms. Dancing was a "sin". I went to my boyfriends prom with him though. It was 1981. I had a long, mint green chiffon dress. It had a short train that I could pin up as a bustle. It was off the shoulder and a sort of antebellum style. I had light green silk shoes with medium heels and I didn't carry a purse. He wore a rented mint green tux with a green tie and a ruffled even lighter green shirt. I got a green coursage. We went in my car and after the prom we went to the bar his mother worked at and she served us champagne even though we were under age. It was his first drink and the drinking age was 19 then. I had long hair and had used the hot rollers and about two cans of hairspray on it. I wore frosted mint green eyeshadow, frosted pink lipstick and frosted pink nail polish.
I bet my daughter and her fiance look much more grown up and much better than my date and I did!
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