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Nonclicky poll: How much did your prom dress cost?
I'm reading on other boards that prom dresses go for $300-$500 now! That seems cah-razy to me!
So how much did you spend on yours?
Re: Nonclicky poll: How much did your prom dress cost?
Mine was $75 on a clearance rack at Dillards and I found it like the week before prom. Oops.
I'm trying to find a picture online now of something similar. It was niiiiice.
My prom dress was a short simple black dress that I found on the clearance rack for $30. I think the most I ever spent (or my parents) spent on a dress for a dance was for my 1st winter formal. It was a dark green velvet material that went off the shoulder and cost $130. At the time I thought that was way overly priced, but since it was my first dance my mom wanted me to have something special.
Eek, I don't remember that far back! Plus, since my mom bought it, I don't think it stuck with me how much it cost. Maybe $80-$130?
That's insane for prom dresses. My wedding dress was only $350!
Mine was about $80 and we bought it in the garment district in downtoan l.a. (read cheap place for dress shopping). I loved it. Someone offered to buy it from me a couple weeks later but I said no. Now it's soooo not in style heh.
ETA: The back of it is forever immortalized in the Clive Barker movie Lord of Illusions (I wore it when I was an extra).
I want to say all of my formal dresses were between 100-150... and I proceeded to re-wear all of them for sorority formals. and I had to pay for them with my $$ from work.
Since I was heavier in HS, I never could find anything in the clearance rack or the teen section at stores, and had to go to Davids Bridal or other formal stores to find larger sizes.
$25 on one of those crazy clearance racks at Dillards. I bought it for my Junior prom but ended up not going, so I wore it to Senior prom. I loved it so much. I totally have a PIP, that's how much I love it.
Hmmm...my phone must have eaten my response. My dress was $220. I looked forever and had a lot of trouble finding something I liked so when the one I liked turned out to be that expensive my mom splurged. I thought that was way to much to spend at the time and we looked in some other stores but my mom insisted on going back and getting it. I still have it, not that I'd ever wear it now.
ETA: I got my wedding dress on major clearance at $350 so I think that redeems the high cost prom dress.
You looked very pretty!
Now I HAVE to find a picture of mine. I was such a hussy. I have no idea how my mom let me and my 16yo 34D boobs wear it.
Mine was from Cache also. It was not simple/black though...it was hot pink!
I honestly can't remember anything about my senior prom dress, but I'm sure it was less than $100.
There are only 2 formal dresses I really remember... my 8th grade Snow Frolic dress which was crushed garnet velvet with a white organza off-shoulder wrap-top piece and a crystal/pearl drop from the middle of my boobs. The other was sophomore cotillion, which was a slinky black floorlength dress with side slits and a 2-foot silver glitter dragon on the bottom by the slit. . . . It's no wonder I struggle with fashion...
My mom still has our picture on her fridge. Here it is:
I crack up every time I look at this. Oh, and yes, that is DH.
ETA: Ahhh! I finally figure out how to PIP and I can't figure out how to make it smaller. Sorry!
Oh, and the back was the pretty part. It splits in the back and has the beading all down the split.
Bahahahahahaha!!! I remember the dragon craze. I had a couple of shirts with giant slinky dragons across them.
Okay, just broke out the yearbook. Here's 16yo LB and her HS boyfriend:
The back was MUCH sluttier. It was an open corset with skinny string things for ties. I tried to google a picture of what it looked like but all I got was lingerie and porn.
I also just took a lovely little stroll down LB-as-a-size-6 memory lane.
I don't care if it's exact, but please for the love of god PIP something similar. I'm begging you.
Right there with ya. I cringe at the thought of trying to get that dress on again.
OMG, Jen, my prom dress was "asian-inspired" also. haha!
I googled "asian-inspired prom dress" and was all ready to laugh and this was one of the first images. I'm not laughing.
Sooooo not my dress....mine was navy blue.
Mine was a $300 Jessica McClintock dress. I have it in my closet with the hope that one day I'll be a size 2 again because I still love this dress! A girl can dream, right?
I think mine was $50. I got it from Sears and I hated it. Oh well.
So it's bothering me on an I'm-usually-good-at-finding-crap-on-the-internet kind of way, but I can't find ANYTHING even remotely close to my awesome dragon dress.
The picture on this shirt is similar to the dragon design (as I remember it from 11 years ago anyway), except it was bigger, and made of silver glitter. The dress itself was basically a long camisole with side slits to the knees. haha
http://www.flickr.com/photos/catspitproductionsllc/4121668907/
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