posted by [identity profile] lila-blue-b.livejournal.com at 03:41am on 17/07/2009
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?
 
posted by [identity profile] rivers-bend.livejournal.com at 05:03pm on 17/07/2009
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
 
posted by [identity profile] lila-blue-b.livejournal.com at 06:03am on 18/07/2009
Awesome! And thank you re the dresses. I think it's the best poll you've ever done. I'm remembering all kinds of things I haven't thought about in years.

It really was quite epic! We called it the "anti-prom" and bowled until they kicked us out at 2 AM... Then we all went back to my house, crashed for a few hours, then got up early to go out to breakfast still in our formal wear. It was amazing! It was maybe a dozen of my friends and I, girls and guys. All of us, for one reason or another, didn't want to go to our prom.

Only unfortunate thing about it was that we missed the scandal at prom. The class president, Lisette, had condoms put in the gift bags (along with the commemorative candle and picture frame) without the administrations' knowledge and when it was discovered, the admins locked the doors until all the condoms had been collected and accounted for... It actually made national news. (http://www.sptimes.com/News/052601/news_pf/TampaBay/Condoms_in_prom_gifts.shtml) I'd just like to add that Lisette rocked and I voted for her.
 
posted by [identity profile] rivers-bend.livejournal.com at 06:49am on 18/07/2009
I can't get over that story about the condoms in the gift bags! (or that you got gift bags at all. We had nothing like that!)

I am so not a fan of abstinence-only sex ed. I think it was awesome she did that and awesome that she got on national news. Though I am sure she would rather not have!
 
posted by [identity profile] lila-blue-b.livejournal.com at 07:31am on 18/07/2009
Yeah, they always do gift bags now, at least down in Tampa. They're pretty cheap, generic "class of..." kinds of favors generally.

I'm not a fan either, but this was during the beginning of Bush the 2nd's abstinence-only kick in a county where the older folks tend to be irrationally conservative... as was the case with the administration at my high school, which caused a lot of tensions between the administration and the student body from what I remember. The students tended to be some of the most liberal you can imagine because it's a performing and visual arts magnet high school. For example, the admins blocked our attempts at forming a GSA for three years by intimidating teachers against sponsoring the club, but when we finally got one, there were more than 50 students at the first meeting, and the second year, they had to move the club to the cafeteria because it was the only place with enough room to accommodate all the students who wanted to be involved.

Yeah, I'm sure you're right, but she handled herself very well. She was even on a radio show where one of the radio personality guys was giving her a hard time for not "leading by example" and for "encouraging the inappropriate behavior of children" (I found the transcript online)... not seeming to understand that most high school seniors either already are or are very close to being 18 years old by the time they graduate, so therefore not children under US law, but whatever... and she didn't even get flustered. So that speaks well of her character.

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