Are You Brave Enough to Share Your Prom Photos?

[hotrod_elf]

I didn't go to my prom. I was too cool for that, didn't want to hang out with a bunch of people who I didn't like and they didn'tlike me. I think I was in the city parting in the lake.

 

[Lady Day]

Im not brave enough

I was totally introverted. But I did go. Actually I did a lot of things that year; tried out for a play, went to prom, told a guy I super liked I loved him :eusa_doh:

Just so I would not regret. And I dont!
LD

 

[Quigley Brown]

I went, but dateless. I was the photographer for the yearbook. I didn't mind.

 

[LolitaHaze]

Ok... here they are!!

They are not the best photos of me, but still... lol Note... the titles do not match my proms' themes... I never fit in too well...

Prom 96. I was a teenage saloon girl. (jr)

Prom 97. Gothic Glory. (sr)

Prom 98 Romy and Michele's High School Prom (after grad)

 

[Diamondback]

I never fit in too well...

Some things just never change, do they? lol
Not that it's necessarily a bad thing...lol

 

[Amelie]

Sounds lovely! How long were you there for?
*sigh* I wish I was done with my degree so I could go lol

three weeks, and I returned to paris only three weeks again a year and a half after that... now it's been two years ans a half that I haven't got there, so I am kind of ":rage: I want to go there :rage: "

 

[Flivver]

I didn't go to my Senior Prom because I looked 12 when I was 18. It would have been rather difficult to find a date!

I didn't attend my first formal affair until I was 39. It was the charity preview for the Detroit Auto Show...often referred to as "Auto Prom". And I made up for the fact that I missed my high school prom by having *two* dates! (I had free tickets, they were mutual friends, and they both wanted to go to the event).

I rented a tux, the girls wore gowns and one of the girls' mothers photographed us as we were about to leave for the affair.

But both my dates got rather tipsy on wine during the evening. At one point, as we were leaving the Cadillac display (me with one gal on each arm), they both tripped on an uneven piece of carpet and fell down, pulling me with them. As I was saying, it was an elegant affair...

 

[Pink Dahlia]

Prom 98 Romy and Michele's High School Prom (after grad)

Holy cow, how much you look like Mira Sorvino!

 

[jitterbugdoll]

I didn't go to prom—I was pretty shy in high school.

Lolita, when that movie came out, everyone took to calling my good friend and I “Romy and Michelle,” as we looked a bit like them. How funny that you and your friend went as that pair to prom.

 

[Absinthe_1900]

High School photo.......Didn't go to the Prom, hung out with crazed guitar players instead. It was just past the Mid-1970s

The last photo taken of me before my just before I soloed my first Cessna 150, then I grew a aviator's mustache.

At least the shirt wasn't polyester.

 

[LolitaHaze]

The best part is that I will be seeing her in two months! Nearly 10 years after we last hung out! So it's Romy and Michele's Reunion Reunion! Hahaha

It cracks me up sometimes when I learned about you (from your Mom) and see that we have had similar parrelles in life. lol This is just another of those! hahahaha

I didn't go to prom—I was pretty shy in high school.

Lolita, when that movie came out, everyone took to calling my good friend and I “Romy and Michelle,” as we looked a bit like them. How funny that you and your friend went as that pair to prom.

 

[Rafter]

... I will be a good sport here and post one of mine. The year was 1985 and I ended up going to three different proms.

High School Prom '92, Sportin' the "Scooby Do Shaggy Do"!!

 

[MrNewportCustom]

I never went to my prom. And to be honest, it doesn't bother me.


Lee

 

[Daisy Buchanan]

I actually had a lot of formals to go to growing up. I think that's how I became to love getting dressed up. Being in the Jewish Community I had a ton of Bar and Bat Mitzvah's to go to, a lot were black tie, and of course since I would be seeing the same group of people at all these different events, I had to have a new gown for each one On the other spectrum I went to prep school in Providence. Providence has a group of 4 prep schools that all interact with each other. So even though each school was really small, all the kids from all the schools hung out together. A lot of my friends had really big parties for their 12th and 16th birthdays. Also every year we had a large formal for both winter and spring solstice.
I went to 6 proms, and I started young. My first love (lol) was when I was just 13, his name was Emilio and he was a senior in high school My parents actually let me go to the prom with him, even though I was just in the 8th grade. Really kind of creepy to think about now that a senior in high school would bring an 8th grader to the prom. I guess I had very cool and trusting parents, but if I ever have a daughter there's no way on g-d's green earth that I'd let my 13 year old daughter date a 17 year old!! I was so thrilled at the time and I even was allowed to stay out until 1:30 in the morning. I did make it home in time for curfew, even though I was taken home in a police car Let's just say my parent's weren't too thrilled about that. We got a flat tire and Emilio was worried I wouldn't make it home in time for my curfew so he had the police drive me home, I swear My parents actually bought it!!! I have the picture, me in my royal blue bubble dress and Emo with his mullet, at my parents house. I'm gonna see my Mom on Sunday so I'll have her bring me the pic so I can scan it. We were really stylin some serious 80's get ups!!

I'll have to dig out the pictures from my junior and senior proms that I have. I don't have all the photos of the others I went to. I had a couple of good guy friends who I grew up with who went to different schools that weren't involved in the 4 school junior senior prom that my school had. I just went with them as a friend. Lots of fun was had but for some reason I never got the pictures.
My own proms were so much fun. Imagine 4 schools, junior and senior classes. They weren't big classes but I'd say we had about 700 maybe 800 people. Most of the kids had dates that were also students at one of the four schools. Each class had between 30 and 90 students. So it was about 180 students per school in attendance, plus dates if they took someone from outside the 4 schools.
My junior and senior year it was at the Biltmore in Providence, which has the most beautiful ballroom that overlooks the city. My junior year my friends parent's had about 75 of us go to their farm, which just so happens to be right on the beach, for an after prom party. Nobody was allowed to drive, and nobody could leave once they got there and we all had to have a signed permission slip saying that we were allowed to actually be there. I guess they figured they new we were gonna find some way to party, so they might as well just lock us up and watch our every move while we did it. It was one of the greatest parties I've ever been to (except for the party my sister and I threw Memorial Day weekend of 1990 while my parents were out of the country for two weeks, people still talk about that one) But, we partied all night by a big barn fire on the beach, the gals in gowns the men in their tuxes. We slept on the beach on this padded platform that my friends parents set up for us. It was a totally different world for me and my date, who didn't go to my school. But, it was a heck of a time.
My senior year we had a huge party at the Biltmore for after hours. That was a blast too. I didn't get home til' two days later Gosh, I never really thought about this but I think my parents were pretty darn cool!!
Anyway, I'll have to scan some of the pictures. But I must say that the one thing my Mom did have over me was her power to get me to wear the dresses she wanted me to wear. Her rule was if she was paying for it she had to like it. So, I hated every one of my dresses. My Mom didn't like the styles of that time, and never wanted me to wear them. She thinks that if she likes something everyone should like it. Which is definitely not the case for a teenage girl who wants to wear what her friends are wearing. But, I wanted to go to prom and didn't have any money of my own, and my after school schedule (I played tennis all year round, and was also on the basketball and lacrosse team) made it impossible for me to find a part time job. So, I had to rely on my parents to help me buy the dress, which meant that I would have to get a dress that only a mother could love. I still cringe when I look at them. I have them hanging in the closet of my old room at my parents house. Hmm, maybe I should try to sell them on ebay. After all, the 80's are making a come back

Ah, why did you have to bring up prom?? What memories this is bringing back.

All your pictures are so much fun to look at, keep em' coming

 

[Tomasso]

Daisy, I always read and enjoy your posts, but may I suggest a few more paragraphs.

 

[Rafter]

It wasn't that long ago for me. 1997.

Here's Pink Dahlia's pink dress. (What did you expect?)

Awesome photo> I see a young Reese Witherspoon, very cute.

 

[Tomasso]

Rafter, just grab Pink and get a room. :eusa_doh:

 

[Jovan]

I'll play. :-O

 

[Daisy Buchanan]

Very handsome pictures Jovan! You are quite the gentleman:eusa_clap

 

[Daisy Buchanan]

Daisy, I always read and enjoy your posts, but may I suggest a few more paragraphs.

Be warned, those who ask usually receive