Originally Posted By ReadingMom This afternoon/evening I spent about five hours shopping with my 17 year old daughter and two of her friends for a prom dress and accessories. My kid with the anti-establishment attitude is going to a prom. She would never go to a football game, a school dance or a school activity for her school, however, she got invited to go with a group of friends at another school to their prom. She jumped at the invitation and is really excited about going. I cannot believe that my emo-turned alternative-turned what color is your hair today girl is going to a prom. And talk about dress shopping! Although we live in a city of approximately 210,000 there is no decent shopping here. The next town over has a mall and we scoured that place and all we found were dresses that looked liked lingerie. It's actually a pretty crappy mall so we drove to Pleasanton (about 20 minutes away) and shopped there. We found the cutest dress, shoes, wrap and evening bag for her. I guess I'm still in some type of shock that she is going to a dance. The whole time she has been in high school (and most of junior high) she has always marched to her own drummer. Now she's sort of going with the flow. As a mom I have to say that it was pretty cool shopping with her today. Her friends were shopping for the prom at their school (my daughter's school). Who knows....may my DD will decide to attend her own prom in May afterall. Well, one can dream.
Originally Posted By SuzieQ I know the feeling well, Reading Mom. My son wanted nothing to do with anything school related until he became a senior this year. Now, the tux is ordered for Senior Ball in two weeks (It's at San Francisco City Hall, in the Rotunda!), the Grad Night party is paid for, and we're waiting for the DL Grad Night tickets to go on sale. Now, I've just got to get him over to the florist to pick out a corsage for his date.
Originally Posted By MomluvsDisney How exciting for her and for you ReadingMom. Maybe she feels that she is bucking the establishment a bit by going with a group of friends rather then a date. My daughter is still a toddler, so I have a long way to that, but it reminds me of myself years ago. Thank you for sharing your experience!
Originally Posted By LuLu How fun! My daughter also changed from being an outcast in middle school to student body vice president! She is too easy to shop for tho, her prom dress last year, we got at Ross for 29.99. (I'll post a pic) I think she's planning on recycling some cheapo dress she got at Forever 21 for prom this year. They have several (3?) fancy dances a year and she does have a few selections to choose from, most of which she's found on her own at thrift stores, or on sale somewhere. It is fun to shop with them once in a while!
Originally Posted By SuzieQ Going to dances in groups is pretty popular at my son's school. I think it's great!
Originally Posted By Lady Starlight OhhLuLu, I'l lucky like you are whenit comes to prom dresses and our DD's. My DD is in high school and went to her winnter formal lastyear and she wanted to go to the thrift store to get her dress. She said liked the "vintage" dresses they had there but didn't have anywhere else such as the malls. Well when we went to the thrift store, omg they had oodles of prom dresses there. Really nice ones and they were in perfect shape. I can understand this as most girls only wear them once( like those ghastly bridesmaid dresses) and then they hand in the closet forever until you find somehting to do with them. anwyays, I paid $22.00 for my DD's Winter Formal dress last year and she's wanting to go back to the thrift store ( wich she loooves to shop at anyways)to get her dress again this year for whatever is comming up next at the HS. A little story about recycled hidious "fancy" dresses... After my Ex-DH and I got divorced I had had my wedding dress boxed up in the closet just wasting space. I wasn't sure what to do with it as I didn't want DD to wear it when she ever got married for fear of "jinxing" her in any way. So,what to do with it? Well, Halloween time came and Ol'Mumsy got a great idea! I tacked that dress up in every spot I could think of so it would fit her and even dug out the head piece that went with it. We ratted her hair out and put scarey makeup on her and she went as a dead bride. (she was about 5 at the time) omg she had so much fun and had so many people comment on her dress that she wore that thing even after halloween was over until it was just shredded completely. Then someonelse I knew wanted to be a dead bride for halloween several years later and they barrowed that dress. SO, who knows where that old thing is floating around at anymore,but it's fun to think of it out there giving others a fun time weaing it. It actually ended up bringing happiness to people after all.. Kinda ironic ain't it? LOL *The X wanted to know where she got that dress cause it looked cool and when I told him his face dropped and he asked me "why would you do that to that dress?" To wich my reply was "well, did you want it to wear instead?" ;-)
Originally Posted By amazedncal2 Oh, ReadingMom, your post brought back lots of memories. I thought my rear end was going to meld to some of those chairs outside the dressing rooms at Prom time with my oldest DD. I only had to go through it once for oldest DD who had a "set up" group date and was just determined to find the perfect dress. Next came 2 boys who had to be nagged to get down to the tux store for the fittings, find out the color of the girls dress, order the corsages and no you can't order the cheapy pin on one, etc. Not sure which was worse Last DD went with friends to SF on a whim and phoned me that she found the perfect dress but it was a tad more than the price we agreed on. YES!!! I said, buy it!!!! Of course there is always some little drama during Prom but "we" survived Have fun with all your prom kids! It's a very exciting time. Next comes the wedding dress and tux Come to think of it we had a bit of variety in how they went to Prom. 1st DD went with a group but all were sort of matched up with "dates." 1st Son had a girlfriend but they went with a large group of friends, again all with dates. 2nd son wasn't going to go but ended up going with a friend who's boyfriend was too old to attend, again with a couple of friends though. Last DD went with her girlfriends
Originally Posted By LuLu ^^ LOL! And these are great stories. What a great idea LS! I don't think I coulda done that but it sure worked out, huh?
Originally Posted By SuzieQ LOL, 2oony! But didn't your DD and I agree she's my future daughter in law? At least we'll go through that nightmare together! You've already told me to expect Bridezilla, LOL
Originally Posted By SuzieQ Love the use of the wedding dress, LadyStarlight! No one's going to wear my old dress. I'm 5'4" and when I got married, wore a size 2. I don't have a daughter, and my nieces are are already 5'10" (15 yrs) and 5'7" (13 yrs), LOL
Originally Posted By SoThisIsLove What great comments, ladies. I can see it all in my mind and am reliving it all (and still anticipating more with our last daughter). Yeah, six daughters. I can RELATE! Congratulations on a wonderful bonding trip with your DD! I hope she has the time of her life. Waiting for the Ross picture to post! I love a bargain!
Originally Posted By Ursula OOOhhh, I wish I had a daughter to take prom shopping! I LOVED shopping for my prom. 999 didn't go to hers, and my mom was attacked by my grandmother and aunt on my dad's side for her proms (Jr and Sr) with my dad. So, my mom got revenge on me for not being able to 1) dress herself for her prom and 2) dress my sister for hers. I got to pick out ANY dress I wanted that made me happy. Mom had NO opinion and let me loose! Cha-ching!!! I had my long hair done up in braids with roses AND baby's breath in my hair. I was allowed to have my ears pierced (even though I was previously forbidden to do so), any shoes I wanted, accessories, etc... wheeeeeeeeeee! Not only that, but I was given extra special permission to drive my sister's brand new convertible to the prom! WHOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Originally Posted By ReadingMom Lulu...my DD loves to shop for vintage clothes at the thrift store. The only problem we have with the one here is that it smells like old, dusty wood. She also loves the second hand book and record stores. (She absolutely loves vintage books.) She was really bummed when Rasputin Records closed here in town but there is still one in Berkeley! Since she joined an All Star Cheer team about a year and a half ago she has become a little more "girly." I think she realized that the cheerleaders were pretty nice people and not all cookie-cutter girls. She still marches to her own drummer, prefers her kind of music to hip hop and wants to make documentary films about social injustice. I'm just so glad that I got to experience the prom shopping! : )
Originally Posted By MomluvsDisney I hope that my own daughter will find that thrift store shopping as fun as her mother does. You are so lucky that your daughter does. So many of my friends children would not dare to wear anything that was not new and of some designer.
Originally Posted By ReadingMom This is how they are all getting to the prom. All I could say was..OH MY GOD. <a href="http://www.sanfrancisco-bayarea-limousines.com/vehicles_land-yachts.php" target="_blank">http://www.sanfrancisco-bayare...chts.php</a>
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains This is a quite popular way for the kids to go now - the price ends up less than a regular limo when divided up - We are in the east bay and a good portion of the kids from my son's class last year took bart - they had a blast and said it was the best way to go - most of the kids were in the choirs and had decided to use the extra limo money on the choir trip to Hawaii over spring break!
Originally Posted By Ursula WOW!!!! I drove this: <a href="http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/1982-1983-1984-1985-1986-ford-mustang-23.jpg&imgrefurl=http://auto.howstuffworks.com/1982-1983-1984-1985-1986-ford-mustang10.htm&h=215&w=400&sz=20&hl=en&start=1&sig2=xmQLbLjcREhQKQMEqC8IZA&um=1&tbnid=iVct2TiogmAfRM:&tbnh=67&tbnw=124&ei=DkL-R6CeBJjOpgSEkr35Bw&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmustang%2B1984%2Bconvertible%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN" target="_blank">http://images.google.com/imgre...26sa%3DN</a>
