Prom
Shot off an activity post, I think it might be worth a thread. 
So yeah for me it was better than I expected. Id been to homecoming twice before, which were both miserable experiences for me. School dances are bad and not liking popular music(at ALL) doesn't help. Anyway, the music was much quieter at prom, and everyone took it more seriously. At homecoming I saw things("dancing", apparently) I really didn't need to see. At prom, I didn't get flashed once. That's noteworthy, methinks. The dancing was confined to one corner of the room and the rest was set up with various fineries. Most of it was chairs and sofa-ish things.
I'm a sophomore, so I was there on a school newspaper pass, which made it more fun, I think. Especially the getting in free. At the very least it was a free meal. Sort of.
I was sick the Friday before, so I didn't get to grab a camera from school, but I arranged for another person who was going anyway to bring it to be. She didn't. I used my phone with pictures, which was better than nothing, but really not great. I took ~500 photos, about 20 of them are printable. Not a great selection. Also the entire senior class thinks I'm some kind of creeper now cause I was this kid no one really recognized running around prom taking pictures of people with my phone.
Whatever, they're gone in a month.
Wow, that turned out longer than I thought it would be. Anyway, what's your prom story? Did you go? Did you like it?
@Elrandir @wubble @CrevsDaak
Ps do they have prom in other countries besides the u.s? Is there an equivilant?
So yeah for me it was better than I expected. Id been to homecoming twice before, which were both miserable experiences for me. School dances are bad and not liking popular music(at ALL) doesn't help. Anyway, the music was much quieter at prom, and everyone took it more seriously. At homecoming I saw things("dancing", apparently) I really didn't need to see. At prom, I didn't get flashed once. That's noteworthy, methinks. The dancing was confined to one corner of the room and the rest was set up with various fineries. Most of it was chairs and sofa-ish things.
I'm a sophomore, so I was there on a school newspaper pass, which made it more fun, I think. Especially the getting in free. At the very least it was a free meal. Sort of.
I was sick the Friday before, so I didn't get to grab a camera from school, but I arranged for another person who was going anyway to bring it to be. She didn't. I used my phone with pictures, which was better than nothing, but really not great. I took ~500 photos, about 20 of them are printable. Not a great selection. Also the entire senior class thinks I'm some kind of creeper now cause I was this kid no one really recognized running around prom taking pictures of people with my phone.
Whatever, they're gone in a month.
Wow, that turned out longer than I thought it would be. Anyway, what's your prom story? Did you go? Did you like it?
@Elrandir @wubble @CrevsDaak
Ps do they have prom in other countries besides the u.s? Is there an equivilant?
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which is probably good because some schmuck would ride in on a skidoo >.<
I didn't go to prom, but I had a huge after-party. That might still hold my personal record for most drunk I've ever been, 21 beers iirc, probably more than half occured in the last 3 hours.
I never regretted not going to prom, and I have no clue why anyone WOULD regret not going. Seriously, it doesn't matter.
My constitution may have improved with more years... I've put away 3 bottles of sherry before in a similar time frame (about 27 beers 5% beers) and was pretty much functional the next day, and definitely didn't black out. I doubt I'll bother exceeding that ever, I'm not getting any younger, and I can have a great night with half that much booze, if not 1/3. Well, 1/3 kinda runs a TAD short.
I spewed all over the kitchen floor and on my bed when I was asleep, honestly I was lucky I didn't choke in my sleep.
Not that I've learned my lesson
Can't really remember anything about the music except that our class was obsessed with Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'." When it finally played, everyone stopped what they were doing and hit the dance floor. We even sang along!
I would've had more fun if I hadn't been sick with a stupid coldsore on my lips (no smoochies with the sweetie that night
For the record, underage drinking is very, very bad. Never did it myself, don't think others should either. Its not that long to wait, and your brain is STILL not finished at 21, so not need to rush. You've got lots of years to embarrass yourself. So don't embarrass yourself by showing up drunk for prom, which is totally not cool.
Year 1; Sophomore: As a homeschooler, I could have actually gone to four proms if I'd wanted to, but that didn't seem any fun, so I first went my sophomore year. I had broken up with my first girlfriend (mutual break-up, no hard feelings) in the fall of the prior year, so I didn't have anyone to go with. I figured, what the hey, I'll go by myself, chill with my guys, and have a ballin' time. Got this snazzy brown (my favourite colour) vest with gold paisleys on it and felt totally boss. Then, I get a message from my ex being like "Hey, my friend is public schooled and can't go, but she wants to. You don't have a date, you should take her!" I knew the girl, and I didn't really mind. She was cute. And after all, my pals all had dates, so why not me? First sign of a terrible night. Her dress was grey. My vest was brown. Those two don't go together at all. But, y'know, no big deal. So we go. We barely talk on the way there. Then we get there and she spends the whole night hanging out with my ex. I don't have an issue with this itself. I mean, after all, it's not like I'm avoiding my ex. Trouble is, no one there is really able to spend much time with me. My bros are hanging with their dates. My date is hanging with my ex and I just feel like a third wheel. So most of the night I'm sitting alone while watching people dance. Yay. Oh, and the girl I like (at this point in time) is my best friend's date. Because f*** me. =p The night just... Kind of sucked bigtime.
Year 2; Junior: So this was probably the best prom I went to. Even if I did go with a girl I knew didn't like me back. The food was good, the dancing was fun, I felt like I actually had friends, my date was fun, and I even wore my top hat. (Because yes. I own one) Although there was always that stinging pain in the heart from knowing my date was the girl I liked, but she didn't reciprocate my feelings.
Year 3; Senior: This one should have been incredible. I was going with my then-girlfriend, it was a masquerade prom (and I had one of the most ballin' masks ever), I had a white tux (because f*** yeah!), and afterwards we were all going bowling. Here's how it sucked a**: My girlfriend got laryngitis and couldn't talk to me. Her mom bi***ed like crazy at her because I was late (we decided to carpool for fun and it worked out like crap because my friends are slow a**es) and because we didn't "get enough photos". (partly because of the whole "my friends are slow a**es" thing) My girlfriend got sort of upset with me because I danced with my ex (the one who was my ex back in Prom Year 1) once. (which I can understand somewhat, but at the same time I tried so hard to understand a mute person for a whole night and I'm only a human without sign language on my side) Then, my girlfriend got a terrible headache so I had to take her home, didn't get to enjoy bowling with her, and missed half of bowling altogether.
So yeah, if I could go back, I'd suit up in a white tux like year 3 with that brown and gold vest from year 1, grab my best pals, and go stag. I'd tear up the dance floor, steal everybody's date for dances, then we'd all go out for cheap, delicious, greasy Waffle House and then bowl the night away. Ah well... In another life, perhaps.
The thing is not everyone is 18 when they graduate (I wasn't), meaning that not everyone can legally drink, but it's a poorly kept secret that minors just get the 18 year olds to buy for them and all the adults turn a blind eye. The second year I went I was hauling for some friends, and there was this hilarious picture of me at last call with both arms laden with all manner of different drinks in an attempt to use up the drink tickets everyone had bought.
And then after you wake up, you discover you made a random girl you had sex with pregnant or something....
Yeah, no.
The worst is if you're not a strictly happy person, then drinking can bring out lots of nastiness. Nobody likes a swamp donkey.
No offense meant to Cuba.
For example, well fitted tight pants tend to be quite flattering to heavier women, much moreso than loose ones which not only invoke the zero-confidence 'I wear a mumu because I'm so fat I hate shopping and drapes seemed to fit', but make any individual look even bulkier, which is usually the last thing a heavier woman/girl would want I think. I think really tight pants don't work as well on very thin women, unless they have more than average muscle to help provide some shape. Mind you, I feel comfortable wearing several different colours/types of leather in the same outfit, so perhaps I ought to be silent on fashion! I have a low budget though, so I have an excuse. Ish.
[spoiler=oh boy. That got long fast]
As a not-woman I will try to tread lighty here, but as usuall I have an unfortunately strong and conflict-inciting opinion.
Example:
I don't know about other places, but around here women have taken to wearing just leggings/yoga pants as pants. I'm not gonna go around telling people what to wear, but I can tell you I would not be wearing leggings if I was a girl. I just don't like the way they look, or the image they give off.
Firstly, they look like you didn't finish dressing. They don't look like Real clothes.
Second, I need my pockets. I'm not about to keep a phone, iPad, multitool, headphones, a wallet, an assortment of pens and god knows what else I happen to have in my pockets in the lining of my underwear. I guess women get purses but walking down the hallway at school you just see all girls shoving phones down the front of their pants, which is a *little* awkward, and don't even ask about why some of the have one rectangular boob:P.
But frankly, getting into the more... flamey stuff, sometimes I just think it an issue of "if you didn't want me staring at that then you wouldn't be putting it on display." That is probably politically incorrect somehow but there you go.
I just don't like the image it would put out(in the hypothetical context of me being female) on a bunch of different levels.
There's a bunch of other stuff I have to say but that would just devolve into an (even more) incoherent rant that would get (even more) people mad at me. [/spoiler]
Now that that's out of the way @DreadKhan I didn't say they where sexy, I said they looked good. I'd like to think I'm able to separate beauty and sexy appeal, even at my demographic.
Yoga pants are a very touchy area I think, because like it or not, they are not universally flattering, though the better made ones usually are much more flattering, and cheaper ones (or old fashioned leggings, which have little spandex/lycra) tend to be VERY picky for who can wear them. You either look great in a pair of cheap leggings, or you look absolutely awful I find, there isn't much of a middle ground. Really good supportive yoga pants though can be worn by way more body types. Good looking doesn't equal appropriately dressed though I agree, and yoga pants are, despite being expensive, not very dressy. I would say anywhere you could wear short shorts reasonably you can wear yoga pants. Yoga pants are dressier than most mini-skirts though, but I really don't dig the whole legging with a skirt thing, just wear jeans already.
Your point about where to put your phone is a good one though, and I think could fall under the heading of 'is the person actually comfortable in the outfit', and as a result, they look silly.
There is a difference between objectively looking good and subjectively looking good I think. Objective is style, subjective ends up being a mashup of trendiness, personal appeal (IE better looking people can get away with WAY more outfits) and preference of the observer (IE if you like a particular colour or cut of dress, for example). I see 'sexy' as a fairly objective term when used to classify an outfit; a tight dress with cutout sides and a deep slit for the leg is 'sexy', even if you or I might personally think its 'too much' and thus is trashy.
...I'm way too interested in fashion I think, but I see it as a very interesting application of Philosophy, mixed with varying amounts of art, depending on how high of fashion we're talking. PROBABLY doesn't hurt that most models are very aesthetically beautiful/interesting to look at, though depending on the company they are about as diverse as the Third Reich. Which is disappointing, because fashion is big on eclecticism.
I'm not sure if we've gone off topic at all though, seeing as this is a thread about Prom, and Prom is for girls to dress up at iirc. Most boys don't have the wherewithal to really understand or care about dressing well, though you can find exceptions, but I'd say not enough to offset the sheer glee that some girls have regarding Prom.
4 hours of anticipation, 25 seconds of complete awkwardness when she told me she was gay, and a solid month of humiliation.
I'm not saying it's wrong for you to have opinions about this, just that you should understand that voicing those opinions can often contribute to an already unreasonable burden. Also, what a woman wears probably means less than you think it does, so it's probably better to put less emphasis on her clothes.