Prom Gowns...what are parents thinking?

[lyeag]

There is NO WAY I would let my daughter out of the house looking like that.

Yep, I am going to be downright judgemental now. Parents who let their daughters walk out of the house dressed like that ought to be arrested for pimping. Trashy, hoochie mama, whatever you want to call it. I would not buy one, I would burn one if a child of mine bought one with her own money. (and then I would seriously consdider sending her off to a convent with 12 foot walls! )

I would not allow my son to be seen in public with trash like that as long as he was living under my roof. Period.

 

[yeartolate]

 

[MorganLeFey]

all I see are red x's.

 

[agnes!]

I was recently a chaperone at a school event at an amusement park. My DD picked out new shorts to wear that I had thought might be a bit too short/revealing...at least until I saw what some other girls from other groups were (or were *not*) wearing! I know it was an amusement park, but somebody had to buy the stuff these children had on their bodies. Hiked up to HERE, short/short/*short* booty shorts....well, maybe I should call them booty THONGS !
With all sorts of words printed across their butts, too.

Not much left to the imagination , but I guess that's the point. Prosti-tots, Prosti-teens...

agnes!

 

[luvdzne]

I was in Victoria Secrets a few weeks ago and saw a mother buying her DD a thong with crystal dangling down the back end. I'm sure it was for prom, because I heard them talking about looking for shoes next to go with her dress

 

[lyeag]

I was in Victoria Secrets a few weeks ago and saw a mother buying her DD a thong with crystal dangling down the back end. I'm sure it was for prom, because I heard them talking about looking for shoes next to go with her dress

Yep, and I am sure mom was SOOOOO proud of her daughter. No joke, I would BEAT my kids before letting them out of the house like that.

 

[momof2inPA]

Now that I look closer, that red dress is the same dress as the black one, but it is truly backwards.

How practical, a reversible prom dress.

 

[pigletz]

I teach 8th grade. Each year the only requirements for promotion are that the kids wear any combination of black and white. While most of the kids are tastefully dressed there are always a few that are showing way too much skin. Last year one girl had what looked like a black sports bra and a skirt that barely covered her butt. Her mom had the nerve to complain to the superintendent when her daughter wasn't allowed to participate. We have a new principal this year who has set a very strict dress code for promotion. White blouses and black skirts that are at least knee length for girls and white dress shirts and slacks for boys. The kids and parents have know this since September but for the last two weeks we've had a least one parent a day come up to the school or call to complain.

Last year when we took a group of our 8th graders to Washington DC we warned parents that we would not be getting back until around 3 am. This was on every item we sent home to parents in giant bold print. About half an hour before we got back we had each kid call to let them know exactly when to pick them up. I teach in an inner city school and the neighborhood is not safe to walk in even during the day. Well, one girl managed to sneak away and walk home. I know should have been watching more carefully but our school is actually a large trailer on a one way street with no parking lot and with all of the cars picking up kids and the busses it was easy for her to get away. When one of the kids told me she had walked off, I got out her permission slip and called the house. Her father actually yelled at me for waking him up and told me that he told her to walk home. We ended up taking another kid home because his parents also told him to walk home. When we pulled up to the house there were 4 cars in the driveway and people sitting on the porch. None of these people cared enough to drive the five minutes to pick their kid up? I just don't get it.

 

[Goobergal99]

Well DH just looked over and saw the pics and he was like "What the heck are you looking at, I thought it was a family friendly website .

After I explained to him, he said it would be a cold day in hell the day his lil daughter walked out wearing anything like that. What is wrong with these parents??

 

[lyeag]

Now that I look closer, that red dress is the same dress as the black one, but it is truly backwards.

How practical, a reversible prom dress.

 

[Shutterbug]

few weeks back my gf and I were out at place to eat and these prom couples came in. Each one of the girls had on dresses that greatly showed of their cleavge. The dresses were open all the way down to the waist.

 

[luvdzne]

Now that I look closer, that red dress is the same dress as the black one, but it is truly backwards.

How practical, a reversible prom dress.

That way if they drop somthing on it, they can turn it around Oh wait! There is nothing to drop something on

Maybe the tag was on backwards and it made them think the dress was on the right way

 

[FroggyinArk]

ok i agree its the parents responsibility to make sure these girls are dressed.


a local story..

friends sister was all extatic and proud that she was making her daughter a prom dress,,

daughter is ...full fiigured, and while a very pretty girl, not one of the princesses.

this mom made this dress and it made hte ones tm2 posted look tame. yes. tame.


silver silk and lame' halter style top, completely backless, skirt just below the obscene level,

now this mom is sooo inteligent, she stitched the zipper on the skirt portion together aftere her dd had the dress on. "so she cant take it off "

she also stitched hte back strap of trhe halter together, and used double sided tape to keep the front in place.

she also "duct taped" a well endowed friend into her dress as well. almost as revealing as the one this woman hadf made.


after the girls left for prom, she came to our friends house bragghging about stitching the dress together so dd couldnt take it off with out her knowing about it,, and i just had to ask her. can she still lift her sklirt so she can use hte restroom? well of course, i had to leave it so she could do that...


at this point the woman got this look on her face like omg what have i done..


so she decides to "meet up with the girls and thier dates" by accident at local late night breakfast place, and hang out with them after the prom.. soo she takes off. goes to restaurant.

another friend works there,, tells us about what happened after they goitto the place. the girls all hugged the mom, guys hugged hte mom,, all settle into a booth,, daughter starts to sit and flashes entire room,,, mom does not even notice,, other girl she taped into dress sits at booth and leans back,, at which point every thing taped into top of that dress was untaped, and out, this woman s till doesnt realize that the girls secret is out. she actually helped hte other girl re stuff her dress at the table.. parents like her, are the kind that let the girls out with the backwards dresses... and think oh shes so sexy and beautiful,, while the rest of the world looks and says wow cheep hookers.

 

[MoniqueU]

Its the parents whos girls get their belly buttons pierced at 16 or come home with a tatoo and the parents go omg no you didn't and 2 seconds later are on the internet going I can't believe she did that snicker snicker snicker, but it doesn't look that bad, this one is tasteful.

 

[Planogirl]

I don't like those dresses at all but I try not to worry about what other parents let their kids wear. Is that controversial enough?

 

[cats mom]

Some of you probably know that I DJ. I will NOT do HS parties just because of this type of stuff.... Many of my DJ associates tell me of the "dancing" that gets done in outfits like these. Might as well be having public sex.

If I am alive in 13 years, when my twins want to head to the prom, you can be darn sure they won't be wearing anything like that. But, hopefully, I will have raised them well enough that it wouldn't ever become an issue.

Some parents need a baseball bat to their heads.......maybe knock a little sense in their heads.

DD is a student body officer at her HS, which means that one of my duties was to work prom.
I didn't see anything quite as skimpy as the dresses posted here, but plenty that I felt were very inapproriate for teenagers.
I'm so glad I was assigned the ticket table, because some of the other parents who were inside with the kids came back with some pretty disturbing reports about the kind of "dancing" that was going on.

Of course I can't believe some of the stuff I see the kids wearing to school either. There is supposedly a dress code, but since the principal dresses sexier than any of the kids (quite a feat) I guess dress code violations are not high on her priority list.

 

[jazstar87]

i had my prom oh about 2 weeks ago, i was actually surprised no really bad dresses. All very beautiful.


When i was shopping for dresses, i looked at some of them and said who in there right mind would wear this! Also, less the fabric, more the prices went up...

 

[barkley]

it's not just prom dresses! i have a heck of a time trying to find dresses that dd (11 1/2) can wear for school events and the like-everything out there looks like something a freshman in college might get away with (since she's away from home and not under the disapproving eyes of parents )-but nothing i'de let my daughter wear. i was very sad to see that loads of young girls (and i mean as young as 8/9) were wearing VERY revealing dresses on our last disney cruise. i could not believe the minimal amounts of top coverage let alone the slit up the thigh numbers these kids were wearing.

dh and i just shook our heads and thought "if they are dressing like that now, god knows what they will expect to be allowed to wear when they enter their teens"

our school has a realy strict (by most standards) dress code-in fact 2 of the 8th grade graduates decided to get matching dresses for the recent ceremony. when the teacher/principal saw that they were halter dresses both girls (and their parents) were told to cover up for the duration of the event or not attend (can you say "mad dash home to find a couple of shawls"?)-i think both thought they were going to get away with it by virtue of showing up 30 minutes ahead of time wearing the outfits-no such luck, the teacher/principal took a stand on the preexisting policy and stuck to it (personaly, i can't believe the parents let them blatantly disregard the rules, but then again these are the same parents you see dropping the girls off in belly baring shirts and "painted on" jeans that the teacher/principal makes them wear buttoned up oversized men's flannel shirts over the minute they hit the classroom ).

 

[MB MinnieGirl]

I really hate to say this.....but....

These prom dresses are the norm here in the South...

Wow! I don't know what part of the south you live in, but here in my part of SC this would NOT go over well at all....thank God! The schools here are VERY strict with dress codes, and something like this would not be allowed through the door of a prom, or any other school dance.

 

[ozarkmom]

I really hate to say this.....but....

These prom dresses are the norm here in the South...

Not everywhere in the south. At my son's prom last year I saw one girl in a trashy dress. The year before that I saw 2. My daughter went this year with her senior boyfriend and I didn't see any trashy dresses. As a matter of fact my daughter has been in several pageants and we've never even ran across truly trashy dresses in the stores. I've seen some in the catalogues but not actually in our stores.