Be still my cheapskate heart: our future - circa 2023 - prom dress crisis has been averted.
Yes, I know, the girl is only four and 2023 is a long way off, but one of my biggest concerns with raising a daughter is how are we going to be able to clothe the child if she keeps heading down this expensive and horrifying princess-pink trajectory?
We are not rich nor does it ever look like we will be rich (we're such bad capitalists) and we would love for our daughter to be all boho secondhand store happy (oh please, please, please let that happen), but who knows where we will be when she hits her teen years? What if she still loves pink?
I might be raising a Blair Waldorf. *shudder*
But now any fears of not being able to provide her with a dreamy prom dress have been erased since I've discovered Duct Tape Prom Dresses (organized by -- of course -- a duct tape company.)
What girl wouldn't dream of having something like this?
Or this?
Okay. Maybe not this:
It's like Red Green exploded all over these high school students. What kind of student does this kind of thing? The ones who want a scholarship to the school of their choice. These kids aren't stupid. And look at that: a scholarship I could have actually qualified for in high school.
Interesting side note: that last dress picture was my actual prom dress color combination which is currently making me want to vomit. Wow. It sure ain't 1987 anymore.
I never did a prom dress, but I did a duct tape business suit complete with duct tape should pads when I was in high school. Ahh. those were the days. Although, it takes a lot of duct tape, cheap it is not.
Posted by: Jessi | 01/18/2010 at 03:14 PM
@Jessi -- like more than $150 bucks not cheap? Because anything over that and shes wearing a tie-dye potato sac.
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Posted by: motherbumper | 01/18/2010 at 03:51 PM
When I worked as a high school principal, we had more than one prom where the kids entered this contest. It's quite a sight in person!
Posted by: LSM | 01/18/2010 at 10:44 PM