BlogHer is doing a fun contest and you all know I love to humiliate myself so . . . go there and read about it, then . . .
Replicate it here!
Tell me about your heinous prom dress. Give the year (or approximate if you don’t want to out your age - for example, my senior prom picture was taken “in the late 1980’s”). Post a picture on the web (use any photosharing site like Photobucket or Flickr) and link to it in the comments so we can all giggle together. The bigger, the puffier, the sluttier - the better.
I’m not giving out any prizes, but I guarantee it will make us all laugh, and laugher is truly the best medicine for all that ails you. Except bad fashion. Even laughter won’t cure that.
Here we go. I’m first. Deep breath.
And yes, that’s a giant black bow on the back of my head, to match the giant white bow you can’t see (thank you fleeting mercy!) hanging off my shoulders down to my butt. At least it wasn’t a butt bow.
1. I thought only girls in Jersey had bad hair.
2. You owe me a new keyboard, as mine is now covered in diet coke. Thanks for the lulz.
So many things. I think a list is required.
1. You look gorgeous!
2. Did your date have long, golden locks?
3. The way he placed his hands in front of you looks like he’s saying “Dude, look! I can put my hands under her boobs and make a triangle over her stomach. Gnarly, man!” I imagine him doing this in a Bill & Ted Excellent Adventure voice.
4. I like the bow in the hair. I’m more concerned about the curly curtain of hair you (or your hairdresser) left hanging over that poor eye. Did you only see half of prom because of it?
Thanks for sharing! Luckily my prom pictures aren’t too embarrassing yet. Although, give it another 5 years or so and I’m sure they will be. (There’s baby blue nail polish involved. So yeah… maybe they are embarrassing now.)
Nikki and Nicole - I am disappointed in both of you! If you wish to comment, thou shalt post prom pics!!!!
But in response to your questions:
1. Thank you. What’s sad? I thought I was fat back then. Oh to be fat like that again.
2. Yes, he did actually! For awhile they were bright blue - and ruined my mother’s couch because the dye leeched onto the fabric. She LOVED my date.
3. I’m not really sure what that was all about, but I can attest to the fact that he didn’t talk like Bill and Ted. At least not all the time. As we are still friends today, I can’t totally rip on him. He’s a really nice guy
4. I missed half of prom due to my asymmetrical insistence. And that was 100% okay. My hairdresser did that by the way. I’ve never been good with hair.
5. WHERE ARE YOU PROM PICS? Mine come from an era where they were on actual photo paper. I know yours are digital so cough ‘em up, Blue Nail Polish Girl.
Wow, the 80s were terrible for fashion, weren’t they? Is that a guy behind you with long, bleached-blond, Guns N Roses hair? You look a little like Maggie Gyllenhall here.
Actually mine are *not* digital! I don’t know how young you think I am, but I’m not. I assure you. I’ll see if I can dig up my pictures from my senior year scrapbook. And the blue nail polish matched my blue/periwinkle colored dress. And I had blue eye shadow on* and blue flower pins in my hair. Good times. Oh and I went stag so there was no date for my mother to hate.
*I don’t think blue eye shadow actually goes out of style in the South. It probably should, though.
seriously guys. are you REALLY going to leave me up here by myself? i’m going to stop approving any comments that don’t contain links to my pictures.
a little bit AlternoGoth.
and i’m a little flattered by the Maggie comment, but someone on twitter yesterday said that she always looked greasy and in need of a good scrubbing. I have excellent personal hygiene. I think.
OH MY GAWD!!
lol these are great Cristina! You would have fit into a NY/NJ Prom no problem.
You look gorgeous! I did go ahead and post mine too.
there is no way you are getting mine up there. HOWEVER, i will leave you with this little gem for your imagination. my friends called my senior prom dress: the sequined bathing suit.
oh whine me dine me - - - i will hunt them down. i will.HUNT.THEM.DOWN. anything that is described as such needs to be found, scanned, and splashed all over the internets.
i am pretty certain that the interwebs can NOT handle all that sexy.
wow. i’m pretty sure i choked on the water i was drinking when i read “the sequined bathing suit,” but can no longer remember anything but “the sequined bathing suit.”
whine.me.dine.me.really? sequined bathing suit? i’m thankful (i think?) my all-girls school had a ridiculous dress code, and a list of ‘things you can’t do at a dance’ so long that even Nicole would get bored reading it.
am i remembering this correctly? wasn’t there some sort of battle royale with your mom where she conceded the black dress if you conceded the bows? or was that me?
Good lord Becky, that is actually ringing some bells. Or some hairbows. What a frighteningly sharp memory you have. I blame my senility on having kids. It’s a convenient and plausible excuse.
So I haven’t found the fat prom picture yet but this is from my Senior Prom which I don’t think I actually went to. I remember getting dressed up and driving away from my house but I don’t recall ever getting to the dance.
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You have to promise not to hate me if I tell you my prom pictures are not terrible. I loved my dress (wore it to formals in college) and even the “done” hair was not that bad.
no hate, girl! bring on the prom!