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I think that some girls use homecoming and prom as excuse to dress overly sexy. What they fail to realize is that you can look classy and be just as sexy. Prom is suppose to be a formal event, you want to look your best, not like a street walker!
Bajan Beauty said it all! I would break my daughter's kneecaps too if she tried to wear something that tiny out of the house. When will these girls come to their senses????
HELLLLLLL NAAAAA!!!! there is no way my daughter would even think of wearing something like that! I nearly fell on the floor laughing at the "broken kneecaps" LOL
I dont care what someone paied me, I woul never make anything like that, girl! some parents are freaking crazy!!!!
IMO the Guy Laroche is just as inappropriate for a young woman. I'm glad the school officials had the sense to deny her entry in that get-up. They won't get compliance with rules until they start enforcing them.
Poor kid, she was also wearing sunglasses at night and inside a house. Some parents did not do their job.
I said poor kid above, but if she were my daughter I would have broken her face (as we say in Puerto Rico). I just feel like her parents have failed her.
I just read this on Bossip and about fell over. WHO in their right mind would let thier daughter out in this?
At my local fabric store, they told me that girls were coming in and buying just ONE yard of fabric to do this nonsense.
HELL NO! Insane! I agree totally with Bajan Beauty.
You know sometimes people do not understand the difference between sexy and sleezy. I wouldn't be surprised if her parents dressed tacky too. I remember my prom and some of the risque dresses some girls wore but none were as bad as this one. It's a shame for sure.
It is a reflection where we are in society today Ii feel sorry for the young girls today they do not have any good role models to look up to It is up to the parents to set the standards to let the girls know what will not be tolerated unfornately some parents are not up to the challenge. Thank you erica for stepping up to the plate with your daughter. It is GREAT to see.!!!
Barb
P.S I love your blog
I am 37 years old and have been married for 14 years, but if I walked out of the house in something like that, my mother would still kill me.
NEVER! I remember watching an MTV special about girls prepping for their prom. One young lady wanted a very revealing dress, which she had made. The Tailor used her ideas, but made sure to limit the skimpiness. When the girl tried it on at a fitting, she had a fit because the front was not short enough for her. He cut it, per her request--despite her Mother stating it would be too short. On the day she picked it up and tried it on, the teen shocked herself by how short it was. But she had ordered it. He delivered, and she had to live with it. In that case, the mother was there. In the case you cited, I don't know why anyone let her leave the house in such a get up. Even J.Lo had more fabric on her Versace dress. Geez!
Absolutely NOT. I would not put my name or label on something of that nature - especially not for a prom dress. I actually set the dress standards for our school's formal events, and while it is not always fun, the students are better behaved and look nicer when dressed appropriately. Furthermore, nobody wants to wear the XXL athletic t-shirt over their dress that I have on hand to give to the girl who wears a dress to the event that does meet the standards. It's been three years and I haven't made anyone wear the t-shirt - yet.
I had to laugh at the idea of you taking her out at the kneecaps.
I don't have children, but I do believe that I'd have to do a little kneecap bustin' of my own if my girl try to get past me with that dress on.
I have 3 daughters; the oldest is 30, the youngest is 16 and my how things have changed in the 13 years since the oldest was 16. Anyway, as I always told my daughters, if you're not selling it, don't put it in the shop window.
Charity had a post about modesty and fashion today, too.
I have two daughters who are beyond the prom stage but there was a period when I made prom dresses and college formals. I think my grand total was eight between the two girls. Both girls are pretty busty and they understood right from the get go that the rules of the dress were: Keep the girls in, keep 'em up, and no fiddling with the dress. That meant straps, or a corset underneath, velcro, straps or whatever. They knew I'd make them whatever they wanted as long as it fell in those guidelines. We always started with fabric because the fabric dictated design, so I made everything from lined chiffon ball skirts to a Chinese split side dress made of brocade. But again, it was all based on the fabric first.
That is just disgusting. You've seen the dresses my DD selected for her proms. And I've seen the dress you made for your DD last year. I am SO THANKFUL we didn't have to have that fight with our DDs - and it would have been a fight for real!!! There would be no question about DD trying to dance without knee caps because she would not even considered a dress like that. Sadly, it reflects our society.
I think my mom would still refuse to let me leave the house in that, and I'm 27! Pretty sad though, that I have underwear that covers more.
It's really a sad reflection on our society in general, I think. I mean, look at the role models these girls have grown up with, Britney Spears being the primary one that comes to mind. With women like that to look up to, is it any wonder that girls these days think that "sexy" means "show as much skin as you can without walking around actually naked"?
I can remember several frustrating moments in my teenagedom with my mom in which she laid the law down on what I was wearing for modesty reasons, but I'm really grateful to her for it now, because that helped me to learn the difference in the right and wrong sort of attention from guys. Really, the girls that wear stuff like that are just devaluing themselves and their bodies, and that's a really sad thing.
SLEAZE-O-RAMA! Proms didn't used to be as big a deal here in Australia, but they are getting to be more so. But I cannot think of any school locally (Admittedly a fairly conservative town) that would let any girl wear that Vogue dress - let alone that hooker-ville atrocity!
On my way home from work today, I was listening to Michael Baisden, a popular radio personality. He spoke about a young lady that wore a very, very skimpy dress to her prom. I went to you-tube and search under "skimpy prom dress. CNN reported on this young lady whom was only able to enter the lobby of the Marriott hotel in Houston, Texas. The high school principal took a stand, because her dress was inappropriate for the ocassion. The young lady became argumentative and demanded her money back since she was not allowed into the festivities. Someone called the police and she was removed from the building in hancuff. Where was this young lady parent? Please check you-tube out.
Erica, I absolutely agree with you, I will never compromise my ethics.
The saddest part was that this young lady doesn't think that there was anything wrong with that horrible, ridiculous and outrageous dress
I call that getting attention for all the wrong reasons. Sad to say, I wore a pretty skanky dress to my prom, and my mom said nothing about it! My daughter, however, won't be caught dead in that! she's not even allowed to wear a 2 piece swimsuit and she's 4!
I guess she's trying to save face but it's pretty sad that she doesn't see how her dress is inappropriate!
That is just nasty looking. I don't have kids, but if I did, they wouldn't be wearing that to the prom.
This goes far, far beyond an issue of sewing, but to the state of mind of young women in general where their cry for attention and definition of themselves revolves around sexuality. This young lady never looked in the mirror and saw how demeaning her dress was or valued herself enough to say I have more to offer this world than to parade around in a stripper dress. Some soul-less seamstress, equally as ignorant, crafted a garment for this poor child and was complicit, along with her clueless parents, in furthering that raunchy,self-depracating mentality.
As for my daughters, hell no! They are teenagers and they are going to push the envelope, but that's my job to draw the line. And I can only draw that line because my mother drew the line with me and her mother before her. No one ever taught that angel how to carry herself like a lady.
Sorry forgot to include my screen name for the preceding commit.
hmph, even when I was FINE and had the seamless body I would never dress that way. I think the skimpy prom dresses are the icing on the cake of inappropriate attire teens wear PERIOD. Agin I blame the parents. I FEARED my elders!
This is the end result of putting babies and little girls in bikinis, marketing hooker clothes to pre-teens, and selling sex at Abercrombie and Fitch, et. al. At our house we do the preppie look. New England WASPS may have been a little dull, but they did know how to dress respectably. 
Linda
You are so right.... Sigh
Well at least she has a very nice toned looking body, THAT could have been the opposite.
IMO, baby girl just forgot she wasn't going to the beach!
I bet the parents are dressing like that too, otherwise there is no way it would have been acceptable to leave home in beachwear heading to a prom.
No way! I am totally shocked by some of the prom dresses I have seen and I certainly would not allow my daughter (if I had one) to leave the house looking like that! I am not a prude by any stretch of the imagination and have been known to show my share of cleavage but I don't understand wanting to look like a cheap tramp.
She looks like she walked in from the beach with her beach towel tucked into her backside. Remember the prom show on Project Runway and how Sweet P insisted on making her clients dress more modest? I love Sommerset's idea of making the girls wear a huge t-shirt over inappropriate outfits...what a motivation to dress more modestly!
I know a lady who says the same thing.If they are paying her ,she will make it.
What's so sad is the girl do not look cute or sexy in that dress.She looks like hooker.What was her mother thinking letting her go out like that!!It is sad what these girl wear now.They don't feel good unless they are showing it all.
That wasn't a prom dress, that was a swimsuit. It is sad, but a reflection on the state of our world today.
It's sad, but I've seen worse. I used to teach high school and the prom dresses were skimpy, too tight and just a hot mess. My Mom would have never let me out the house that way. You surely have to wonder who's raising these "young ladies".
I think the wrong person was in handcuffs. Hello, Mom, where are you?
When I have kids, assuming I have at least one daughter, she's going to have a "six yard rule". Any dress she wears must have at least six yards of fabric!
That is the reason I haven't done a prom dress yet. I had a girl who wanted a revealing dress made out of denim and white pebble leather in a size 20. I don't do tacky.
My 5 daughters are all grown and range in age from 32 to 25. If I saw any of them attempting to leave the house (my house OR their houses) in a dress like that, I'd tackle them at the door and not let them leave.
The poor girl looks horrible in that dress. It's tacky, classless and graceless.
Her mother should be ashamed. Girls that age will try to get away with whatever they can. The adults in their lives should set some limits. This girl's mother is asleep at the wheel.
Oh Princess Tiffany, you made me laugh.
It's funny this is the topic today. Just this morning, a co-worker showed me a picture of their daughter dressed for prom. I mentioned just how plunging the neckline was on the dress (closest resemblance is V8191 view B). It may have offended them but it was too risqué for someone in high school to be wearing.
And BTW, it's nice to know I'm not the only one who has doubts about sewing projects. I'll get so far in a project and just stop. Sometimes I'll buy everything I need and don't start at all and the fabric has piled up. I'm encouraged to finish what I've started and start new projects.
OMG!!! I can't imagine wanting to wear something like that to a prom. Society sure has poisened the minds of our young people. The sad thing is many people just "go with the flow" and let it happen.
LOVE the six yard rule! That is hilarious, but probably a very good guide.
Charity
I don't make dresses for proms anymore. I had become so frustrated with trying to work with the young ladies that I began REQUIRING the mothers be present at the consultation and at the final fitting. That didn't help because some of the mothers were the ones actually advising their daughters to "show it - while they still have it". I was done. Not to mention that fact that I had become disenchanted with the whole concept of what the prom had become to many.
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*sigh* why is it ok for high school CHILDREN to be sexy now. Prom or not. Not just her mama but society has failed this CHILD.
Wow that was two hankies and a scarf in deed
My Daughter would never wear that by her own self worth standards and due to my I am still in charge standards
We have been plannning her Prom dress since 1997 it is a copy of the red "jump dress" from titanic and very classy and covered up. I think she looked beautiful (biased of course) When I picked her up from the dance I was shocked at what some of the girls were wearing and more shocked their parents let them wear it.
stop by and peek at my dress if you get a chance. I have visted your blog often first time to comment. I love your blog
When I was a sixth grade teacher, I would always have one or two (or ten or twelve) girls who dressed like...well, ladies of the night, shall we say? I always wondered a) who was selling clothes like THAT in children's sizes, and b) what were their mothers thinking? It often looked like Oscar night in our hallways, and I felt sorry for the male teachers for obvious reasons. Inevitably, these kids would end up in parent/teacher meetings sitting next to their mothers who were dressed EXACTLY THE SAME WAY! If anyone thinks TASTE (good or bad) can't be taught, I can give them an earful.
Erica .- if you are right. but the problem is that this dress draws too much attention to weak eyes of the victims of fashion, with age they have. could perhaps be as patron to take this skirt .... uhmmm. greetings. Paco
When I saw this on CNN.com I was shocked. The dress is sooo inappropriate as was her behavior at the prom itself. Matters of taste and morals aside, this dress is also very poorly made. Thanks for letting me rant about. LOL
My daughters just went to prom 5/10/08 and they would never go out looking like that. Although, there were plenty of girls that did come to their prom in that fashion. Girls have lost the idea that classy is the true sexy.
Today's society is full of misguided young ladies that need someone to show them a better way. Most of the girls that are out here now are the product of teen pregnancy so the Mothers are still in competition with the daughters and not accepting their role as the person that shapes the future and integrity of their children.
I just went through this last weekend with a cousin's daughter. We finally agreed to something we all could live with. I don't do anything without Moms involved and don't do anything I wouldn't have done for my daughters. Parents need to parent!!
i feel so sorry for the young lady, and i am ashamed of her mother for allowing her to dress as such. i mean, for goodness sakes! stevie wonder could see that that was most inappropriate!
I thought that dress was the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen! If she came to my house as a prom date I might've called the cops myself. Why would anyone same person let there daughter leave the house like that? BTW I love the way you dress your daughter...like a young lady. Society tells our girls(especial AA girls) that they must dress provocatively to get attention and this is soooo wrong!
@Anon 9:09pm,
Society tells women PERIOD of all races that we have to dress provocatively to get attention- has for ages. Not just AA girls.
Let's not make this about her race, but about the fact that her parents need to be slapped and the little girl needs new parents .
Golly!
IMO, some of these parents can't seem to put their feet down these days and demand that their children cultivate a little modesty.
I totally agree with the comments above!! How devastating for that girl to dress up 'in her best' and to be denied entry because her parents didn't have enough sense to protect her...
I really liked the guy laroche dress and would totally make it - - as lingerie for my husband and I to enjoy!!
Hi there, I was just directed to your blog by one of my delightful readers and found this post.
I have to say that this dress is an all round disaster. Firstly, it isn't really a dress, secondly it is shoddily made, and thirdly it doesn't even fit her. So regardless of the suitability of the number for her event, it is a huge disaster.
Personally I quite like the guy Laroche dress and wouldn't have a problem with my daughters wearing something like this when the time should come. But in saying that, the behavior that a girl exhibits dressed like this makes all the difference. If she is a lady like and polite individual who carries herself well, then a dress like this can come off as the height of elegance. However, if she is all attitude, it takes the dress into hoochie territory.
That's my two cents - I'd like to hear your thoughts on this view EB.
xxx Super Kawaii Mama xxx
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Hi Super Kawaii Mama!
I don't really care for the Laroche dress... it's not really my style. And it's highly unlikely that my daughter would like that style either. She's more into the "princess" look. I think the dress would be highly inappropriate for a high school event and very few 17 or 18 year olds have the sophistication to pull off a look like that. As a matter of fact, very few GROWN women have the sophistication to pull off a look like that... without coming across as "hoochie".
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