School Prom vent....

shellsuit

gregg1 wrote: »

What do you expect from someone called "shellsuit"!

I wouldn't expect anything less coming from a person whose name is where chavvy single Mum's eat

shellsuit

That's some wicked hair your son has there Andy!

He looks very smart indeed!

looby75

shellsuit wrote: »

I wouldn't expect anything less coming from a person whose name is where chavvy single Mum's eat

:eek: I had a tuna sandwich from there last week AND I'm a single mum.

shellsuit

looby75 wrote: »

:eek: I had a tuna sandwich from there last week AND I'm a single mum.

You're not a chav though :kisses3:

vesper

My sixth form prom was 10 years ago, and got to admit it was horrible overall. There was such upmanship between the girls (all girls high school and highly b**chy at the best of times).
Those who didn't have the best dresses that cost the most were treated like utter lepers.

Luckily I had a good group of friends that didn't care. I went in a £35 gothic dress that I wore several times afterwards and it would have been my wedding dress last year if my FIL hadn't thrown it in the bin by accident. We went in my mates old banger.
Most of the girls went in limos. We spent the night in a corner not being spoken to as we had decided that we would take each other as our dates.

One of the good things was though that it cost nothing to get in. The school got us to raise the money for the entire thing ourselves, by fundraising, and arrange it with a little help from them.

The only cost I had appart from the dress was £3 for a large baileys. And there was options to buy a prom photo, we just clubbed in and bought one between up and then scanned it so everyone got a copy.

loracan1

Wish I'd had a prom. As it is all we got was a meal at Smithills Coaching house and my dress was shocking pink with the most gigantic massive over-sized shoulderpads imaginable.

System

This is me in my prom dress 10 years ago :eek:i was going through a mosher/goth phase)

dragonette

Haven't read the whole threa so apologies if this point has been before. We had a full Christmas ceildh each year, the 5th and 6th year dances were fantastic didn't go to my leavers dance, it was in a fancy hotel and tbh at 17 I was just happy to be off and heading to uni. I had spent most of my time at school either studying or with a small group of other 'misfits' (I am still a metaller, my work love all the diff band hoodies

I'm not keen on the word 'prom', but making a big deal of it makes sense if the Chrismas party isn't seen as that big a deal.

landyandy I love your son's hair
messedup that's a very pretty dress and you looked great!


ETA: some girls wore far too much make-up to school, but the dress code for the ceildhs was very, very strict. Too much make-up or non-formal attire meant that you would get turned away from the doors even having bought a (cheap) ticket.

Pollycat

looby75 wrote: »

it doesn't HAVE to cost £100's though.

TKMax get a big selection of prom dresses in every year, that was where we were planning to get my daughters prom dress 3 years ago we saw a lovely cocktail dress for £30 that we were trying to get in her size from another branch, but in the meantime her grandparents wanted to buy her a dress from a boutique. It's a beautiful classic designed dress that she plans to wear again at her Uni ball.

We hired a limo between 8 of them which cost £31.25 each to take them to and from the prom, but other people just went in their parents cars.

My friend did her hair and make up for free, her shoes were bought in the sales for £7.50, her tiara was £5 off ebay her clutch bag, £5 from claires accessories in the sale, she wore earnings and a necklace that my mum got her the previous christmas.

So the total cost of prom for us (if we had got the £30 as originally planned) including her prom ticket (£20) was/would have been £99.25

One of my daughters friends paid even less as she borrowed her older sisters prom dress and did her own hair/makeup etc. She still looked fab and they all had a great time at the prom with lots of happy memoires of it.

Do you ever go on the DFW board?

That £99.25 would probably feed a family of 4 for a fortnight.
What choice do they make?
No food for a fortnight or daughter/son doesn't go to the prom?

I appreciate that it must be nice for young girls to feel special and pampered but not every family are in the position to be able to afford even just the price of the ticket.

And PoppyOscar did start off this (very interesting) thread about cost and shallowness of some of the girls.

Gra76

I'm mortified that it has to cost anything other than the cost of the ticket to go. The ticket to get into our leaving do was £2....and I thought that was £2 too much....We wore clothes we already had (I know a couple of kids who borrowed their dads shirt though) and we walked to it. A concept that appears to have bypassed the current generation!

When I see people saying tickets cost £30-£50 or more I cringe. By the time my eldest is ready to have his overly-expensive-rip-off-leaving-prom it'll be upwards of £100 no doubt....better get saving!