rivers_bend

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.