Are You Brave Enough to Share Your Prom Photos?

[dostacos]

ok I have just traveled through this entire thread. My mom has all my prom pictures, BUT I will get them and post them asap.

oh, and mine will really show a transition 1966-1969

when I went to school the girls could wear pants ONE day a year, and the boys got to wear shorts the same day. The girls had to kneel on the ground to make sure the dresses were not too short. By 1969 they allowed us long hair and even though we could not have beards, we did manage to get some seriously bushy sideburns. I went to the winter and spring formals, the Sadie Hawkins dances, Junior and Senior proms and Grad night.

At my school most of the kids did go to the dances. we also had sock hops in the Gym [the basketball coach hated the dances because we all wore hard soled shoes on HIS court hehehe]

As soon as I get them I will post at least a few of them, like maybe one a year you will see me as a shadow of my current self [much thinner, and NO gray hair]

My wife went to an all girls catholic school and a family friend Father BOB had to pimp for her [from the all boys school] and did not really enjoy high school or the dances

 

[PADDY]

Sweet 18...when the world seemed mine!

The summer ball at college nearly 25-years-ago now with a Miss Hagan - spooky eh!

Doesn't time fly (just comparing the avatar with this old photo of a young man, there's a few more crows' feet and pounds of flesh on the 'auld' body now!).

 

[ohairas]

fftopic: DiamondBack, I was probably the moron as I took him back several times thinking he'd change and treat me better! The last straw was that we were together 12 years and he never "knew me". He asked me one day what my hobbies were, now... I'm sure most of you could list them just from me hanging out here. He was blind.

Ms. Ohairas, one question: what kinda freakin' MORON was your ex to not do whatever necessary to win and keep your favor?
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Thanks for the comments folks!

HappyFilm, nice date!

Paddy, why is it men get even more handsome with age, and we just get... old?
Nikki

 

[imoldfashioned]

I try.

I love it that you wore pink Purcells! So cool!

 

[imoldfashioned]

1984

Oh, my Barbi--you look SO much like a girl I went to high school with (she was nice, by the way ). That hairdo was what all the popular girls had too. My gigantic angora cowl necked sweater was light yellow--eek!

 

[imoldfashioned]

Finally, the delicious cheesecake alongside the lovely corsage:

Sorry guys, I'm completely spamming this thread but your pictures are all too good!

This is like the quintesential prom picture; wrist corsages--gotta have 'em.

 

[imoldfashioned]

and this was my lovely date (on the right):

She wore a knee length black sequined dress with totally gigantic rhinestone skull and crossbones earrings. She dropped out of high school at 15 and went to art school, so it was her first and only prom. We were the coolest people there, trust me.

So great Pigeon Toe--I have no doubt you were the coolest people there.

 

[imoldfashioned]

The summer ball at college nearly 25-years-ago now with a Miss Hagan - spooky eh!

Doesn't time fly (just comparing the avatar with this old photo of a young man, there's a few more crows' feet and pounds of flesh on the 'auld' body now!).

Aw, go on Paddy--you looked great then and now. Her dress is pitch perfect for the early 80's; she must have been a fashion plate.

I've got to dig out one of my senior pictures--I'll tie a string around my finger to remind me right now.

 

[Twilight]

Here's my prom picture from last year.

I plan on going again this year.

 

[zaika]

oh, prom! never went. i don't regret it either because i never really enjoyed school dances. i was too shy, and no one asked me to dance. so i just sat there with the other shy kids. awww!! lol i did go to homecoming, though. but i was in my anti-dress phase so i wore a pants suit with really high sneaker heels and i went with my friends, the Thai exchange students. lol lol they were so sweet and had a great time. me? not so much, as per usual.
however, these days i think i could stop being shy for a couple of hours to have a good time!

 

[deadpandiva]

Great photos. I think I still have a prom photo. I wore a 5 dollar velvet dress from the good will. It was kind os a 70's Gunnie Sax thin with a square neckline and empire waist. We took the original buttons off and put gold rose ones. Ihad a huge Medieval looking gold cross necklace also from the goodwill. I went to a visual and performing arts Highschool so no one thought this was strange at all.

 

[RockBottom]

Mine was so long ago photography hadn't been invented. We paid 10 drachmas to have ourselves carved.

 

[Sunland Sare]

this is the only one I can find, I seem to be a little tipsy, non?

 

[Corto]

1991. Identities have been disguised to protect the innocent...

 

[Barbigirl]

A crowd

Oh, my Barbi--you look SO much like a girl I went to high school with (she was nice, by the way ). That hairdo was what all the popular girls had too. My gigantic angora cowl necked sweater was light yellow--eek!

That is so funny because I was so "not part of the in crowd" I was definately the Romy & Michelle sort.

Now, of course, we here are the popular crowd.

 

[imoldfashioned]

Okay, I finally found my high school formal dinner photo--May 1985. Not overly clear and my awful shoes are barely visible but a nice momento of my first good quality vintage piece, a black 1940s cocktail dress. How could I have left the house with this hair?! As an aside, this was about the thinnest I've ever been in my life.

My horrible senior photos--1986--featuring the perm that would not die! The very best one seems to have disappeared--I'm sitting in front of a fake window with gauzy drapes and a painted backdrop--it's hideous.

I have no idea how I came up with this outfit but since I'm dressed like an adult version of Heidi I suspect my mother may have been involved. I still remember what a putz the photgrapher was but, in his defense, he did have a thankless job. I don't know why there are flecks on the first photo, sorry.

And, as long as I have the scanner out, here's a shot from a few years later--my first day of college classes for the year 1990

One of my favorite pictures of myself, circa 1995

 

[pixie]

The summer ball at college nearly 25-years-ago now with a Miss Hagan - spooky eh!

Doesn't time fly (just comparing the avatar with this old photo of a young man, there's a few more crows' feet and pounds of flesh on the 'auld' body now!).

Paddy
Your avatar is hot IMHO!! Way better then the prom picture.

 

[PADDY]

Awww, thanks Pixie.

That was the sweetest thing to say. Thankyou

 

[Bud-n-Texas]

Well, I just posted photos of my Sr year on another thread. While I am embarrassing myself, might as well go all the way.

 

[Caledonia]

Mine was so long ago photography hadn't been invented. We paid 10 drachmas to have ourselves carved.

I take it you obtained said drachmas by selling her prom dress?