rivers_bend | It's the middle of the night. Poll time, surely?

I answered but I don't have a dress- because I never went to a formal in HS. I do still have a pair of jeans from then so I went by that for fit XD

It's called the Debs here, and I didn't go because I was a grumpy disdainful teen who wanted to demonstrate my contempt for something that all the other girls in my school were excited about. Gah, I was such a pain!

I don't regret not going though. I was a goth anyway so I didn't need any excuse to wear a massive frock.

I had a pretty shitty time at every formal dance I ever went to, but I am strangely still glad I went. Mostly because all my attempts to be a goth failed completely, so I didn't get to wear fabulous dresses any other time :D

I hated my senior prom with a blinding passion. I went because my friends made me, I went with an ex I really didn't like, and I wore this 40s fishtail dark burgundy gown I found somewhere for something like $15 and had a friend alter for me. I wore it with a five strand pearl choker and a pearl bracelet -- they were river pearls, so the smaller, kind of irregular shaped sort, and I guess it all looked lovely enough -- or, as lovely as a very awkward 17 year old who hated school dances and felt out of place in a gown and pearls could have looked like. The pearls were my grandma's, and, really, when I was imagining the outfit, I was kind of imagining a girlfriend of mine wearing it -- she had the statuesque shape for it, the really glossy dark hair, the walk. Plus, she actually liked that sort of dress-up. It would have looked smashing on her.

that dress sounds AMAZING. OMG WAAAAAAAANT. If there is photographic evidence anywhere I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to see it.

I had a super shitty time at my senior prom. I actually had a pretty good time at prom my sophomore year, though a shitty after party.

It was beautiful - vintage black lace. It's now in the dressing up box - usually gets worn by whoever is madam magonagal when the kids are playing harry potter!

that is awesome! I was all about lace dresses when I was in school. (though it was the 80s. I didn't have much choice, I guess)

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We don't really do "prom" here, we have an graduation party-thing. It's pretty casual, so mine was just a cocktail dress. I still have it (after a period where I let someone borrow it and didn't get it back for 14 months) and wear it when I go out sometimes.

Our graduation party was jeans and t-shirts--a casino night in the school gym. But we did have prom, so I guess that's why.

I loaned my fave dress from back then, which I actually wore in a play, and not to a dance, to someone and then never saw it again.

I do wear mine now but to be fair I have had it altered. It's 3/4 length now and... well, sluttier. *beams* And technically I don't actually belt it, but it is a size too big (kung fu lessons ftw!) so I picked that option.

Lalala random poll is random.

perfect! the belt option was definitely intended just to mean too big :D :D

random poll is SO random. These things happen in to me at midnight. To be fair, though, it's one of the more popular polls I've done that isn't about sex, so... clearly random is yay! :D :D

My junior semi-formal outfit was ... a business suit. Yeah, I had no fashion sense. My senior formal outfit was a black ankle-length skirt with a gauze overskirt and this absolutely awful purple fake-satin Chinese style military jacket that my aunt made for me. I wore entirely too much makeup that made my face look orange, my hair was terrible, and I burned the videotape with a great amount of glee.

AWESOME!!!!!! I love it.

I wore far too much makeup to my sophomore Christmas formal, but it made me look bone white. The pictures are terrifying.

I wore my formal dress a few weeks ago for a masquerade. It showed off my curves a little more than when I first wore it, but it certainly still looked good.

yay! All the years where I could have still worn mine I wouldn't have worn a dress for love nor money, and now that I would, I'm years past fitting them.

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Two words: Hoop Skirt.

JEALOUSY! :)
I think it was when I was a freshman that Every Girl at Prom wore one of those. It was uncanny, even then!! was that part of the fashion craze known as gunne sax?

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Some of my fancy dresses fit me, I think, but the fanciest one I'm a little afraid to try on (and ironically, it's from college, not high school). Seen here (http://pics.livejournal.com/beckaandzac/pic/00004fd4).

you are beautiful! only, the shawl disguises your hair!

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We don't have proms, but I did go to the French equivalent of debs dances/the Season, called un rallye. I still have the yellow dress I wore when I was 17, which I wouldn't care to wear, i think, although it was very well cut. I also have a couple of balldresses from the 80s/90s in which I did look good and which I would kill to be able to wear again.

I had a yellow dress when I was 17, too. It fit me very well, because my mother made it, but the styles then were not very flattering, I don't think :)

I graduated from high school in 1986 i remember three specific gowns I had. One was long and purple and looked like a choir gown (ugh). One was pink satin with enormous puff sleeves. The final one was my high school senior prom and it was the one I would still wear now if I still had it -- it was a silver lame tube top with a white tulle skirt: AWESOME EIGHTIES GEAR. my date wore a white tux, silver cummerbund and bowtie to go with it!! (he is the one, who in retrospect, was probably gay-- in those days, I was without a clue)

i still have my wedding dress and I wear it every year on our anniversary, because we are hippies and my dress was a white cotton embroidered dress that cost me $19 off the rack. it is still perfectly in style (for me anyway) and fits perfectly (I had to modify the cap sleeves because I have very muscular upper arms!!) I wear it with a long prairie petticoat -- another of my all time favorite trends from the eighties.

now I buy all my formals from thrift stores. yay!

Oh yeah!! I forgot the awesome black formal I wore to my senior recital!! I would never fit into that again in a MILLION YEARS but it was gorgeous. (1990)

Then there were the class LBD's that were the uniform of choice to my women's college cotillions and fall formals.

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Your radio buttons cannot encompass my answers! Nothing at my schools was ever very formal, so I have some nice vintage stuff that I wore to the dances, but I don't exactly know when they are from. The dress that I wore both to prom at middle school and for my high school graduation still fit me last time I tried it on, and probably still does. It's a white faux-mideval thing and I've worn it to Ren Fest and such a few times since then.

The dress I wore to my high school prom was actually a skirt and shirt set of green velvet, and the zipper on the skirt broke completely during the second song of the dancing, so I had to run home and missed most of the event, which was fine, because it sucked anyway. So I haven't worn the skirt since, but I did used to wear the shirt when I was in college, though I think it would probably be a bit too tight on me now.

Thus, I never actually had any typically prom-like dresses. Hmm. Does this mean I have to figure out something fancy to wear?

Radio buttons cannot ever really encompass your answers. But sometimes they are necessary! :D

I love vintage dresses. They are the best :D

Oh no! about your zipper. That sucks. Though I would probably have had a better time going home from most school formal dances, too. I had fun at most of the dances where I was just hanging with my friends. but the ones I had to do to with a date sucked.

I think you should figure out something FUN to wear. for some that will be jeans, for others sexy dresses, and others crazy clothes.

i wore a shimmery silver cocktail dress with an asymmetrical hemline, and i wouldn't mind wearing it again if there was an appropriate occasion for it ;)

prom was boring and pretty lame overall. mi'd just started dating my bf and we were still nervous around each other, so i still look back at prom with fondness :P

That sounds like a gorgeous dress! but yes, possibly something there isn't a whole lot of opportunity to wear in the real world context :D

I didn't go to my senior prom. I didn't even date in high school.

I would have been MUCH happier at my senior prom without the date. At every dance, really.

I don't own a dress... except for the one I just bought for WinCon. I don't have dress shoes... I will probably end up going barefooted.

I will pretty much DEFINITELY be going barefoot. unless I find something that goes well with my flip flops :D

Wooo for being a young'un. I've worn my dress once, since, to a wedding. I don't dress up, otherwise, so the option of "Yes, I'd wear it all the time if it fit" was more a "Yes, I'd wear it all the time if I actually wore something other than jeans and sometimes nice pants to any kind of event". :D

Well, that second thing is much more what I meant, given I don't think I know anyone who wears formal dresses on a regular basis :D

I never wore any of my dresses again, as there were no weddings. :(

I don't know how my dresses still fit me, but they do. It's weird, because I swear I'm 15 pounds heavier than I was in high school! That isn't too much of a difference though, I guess. Teeny bit snug, though. I have one dress from high school that's a size FOUR. Jesus.

They all feel a little dated though - I was in high school from 2000-2004, so they don't seem nearly as cute to me now. And too many of them are really pink. Oh God what was wrong with me. D:

Now I am curious what early 00's dresses looked like!

And 15 pounds isn't so much! :D

Your post has inspired a crazy but unsuccessful search for my high school photo album. I think I just haven't looked under the right pile yet. However, I did find two random dresses, still in shopping bags. Oops.

If I had any idea where my prom dress was, I think it would fit, but I wouldn't wear it. It was nice enough, white, long and curvy, super-low v-neck, but it's not really me anymore. As far as dresses go, I'm in love with 40's and 50's casual dresses and 50's and early 60's evening wear. They used such beautiful shapes and fabrics back then!

haha, this post inspired a crazy search for my dresses :D Apparently they are in mom's attic. um ooops to finding two random dresses in shopping bags :D

I absolutely love dresses from the 40's-60's Went to and Yves St. Laurent exhibit at the local museum, and I was just in LOVE with some of the older styles.

ugh. my dress was HORRID!

It was not the best time for fashion. :D

I still have all of my formal dresses from high school. I can't get into the one I wore to Homecoming my sophomore year anymore (I was still growing taller then, etc). It's a sapphire blue empire-cut dress with a velvet bodice trimmed in silver braid with a polyester satin skirt. The senior year dress will go on, but for some reason is a little baggy in the shoulders and chest now, though the skirt is still gorgeous (it's kind of like the dress that Kate Winslet wore as "Rose" in Titanic when Rose was going to jump off the ship and kill herself, except my dress is black beaded tulle over sapphire blue satin, not black over red). The junior year dress still fits pretty well... It's got a black velvet bodice with a matte black microfiber skirt, princess seams that fit and flatter, and a v-neckline. I've worn that one in a situation I would call ironic. My friends and I decided to skip our senior prom and go bowling in formal-wear instead, so that's what we did. In hind-sight, it was pretty epic.

This is a pretty awesome random poll. How'd you come up with it?

OMG BOWLING IN FORMAL CLOTHES. I LOVE IT!!!!!!!! That is amazing and totally epic.

And wow. all those dresses sound utterly gorgeous.

haha, this is one of the most popular polls I've done! I was expecting like five people to answer it. :D :D

some of us were talking about prom at wincon and what we'd wear, and I was down at mom's where all my dresses are, and I just got curious about whether other people still have theirs :D

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My 30-year reunion is this month, and I don't think I'd go even if I could afford it. Most of the people I gave a damn about in HS I'm still in contact with, the rest---who cares?!

I weighed about the same for my 10-year reunion as I did when I graduated, so I tried The Dress on---damn, it might be the same number, but it sure wasn't all in the same places---I had to be peeled out of it; my boobs wanted to stay encased in the bodice. Too bad it doesn't fit---it's an empire-waisted maxi-dress---it's back in style!

It's amazing how things come back around in style, isn't it? :D

My 20 year reunion is next year. I can't really believe it. I am hoping that it will be affordable, because there are people I would like to see :D