Comments on: Prom Trauma (Prauma?)

By: Hunter Reed

Hunter Reed — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 02:53:26 +0000

prom dresses from JC Penney are great looking and cheap too.*;`

By: ABBY

ABBY — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:53:10 +0000

I’m thinking about what kind of prom dress to buy. I’m finally a senior and I went to prom as a junior with girlfriends. Although I got my makeup done and felt really beautiful at home as I was getting ready, I couldn’t help but feel disgustingly obese and revolting as I saw my friends at prom. I am 5’1″ and about 180 pounds. I wear a size 17. Although I personally know I’m overweight, I am happy, until I compare myself to other girls. For now, I plan on changing my habits to look a bit more like the other girls in my grade for prom this year. As far as the dress, last year I found several beautiful dresses at Ross for cheap and in a variety of styles for my size. There were even many name brands like Calvin Klein all for a modest price of $60 and less. But thank you all for sharing your experiences. It was very helpful.

By: Myself

Myself — Sat, 09 May 2009 21:30:15 +0000

We had a year 7 dance at our primary school before going to high school. We all took dancing lessons as part of the curriculum ( waltzing, Pride of Erin, Waves of Bondi etc) for the big night. I wore a size 10 (in US terms, a size 6) at the tender age of 12 – at that age I was already 160-165 cm and basically had the body of a fully developed woman. It was an $8 Kmart special, looked vaguely oriental in a cheongsam sort of way. I was the tallest girl and the “biggest” girl and not one student danced with me. Not one. I think teachers were telling the boys to go over and dance…nup. Nothin’ doin’. I think in the end they sent the gardener over to dance with me. The funny thing was that if I had that body as a 20 year old I would’ve been considered rather tasty. At 12 the other girls were wearing their sister’s cocktail dresses with unashamedly stuffed bra cups, whereas I had the real deal, and was made to feel a freak because of it. It was a very good lesson overall though, so even though I felt awkward that night, it reminded me about why I should never assume I should be treated with respect just because, you know, I am a human being. When you don’t fit in, you need to either ‘earn’ respect by apologising for your existence or by hiding yourself away. Bugger that.

I also went to my year 11 and 12 dances just to say “get stuffed” to my peers at large. My mother’s shame was palpable as she had to make my dresses for the events (I was up to a size 14 by then). They are not happy memories, but I am glad I went – excellent learning experiences.

By: kele

kele — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:26:59 +0000

I just bought a prom dress today suprisingly and embarasing to say at Ross. It was $15 and i think its really cute. Our prom this year isnt too formal b/c i go to a small private school and since the economy is bad they decided not to put too much pressure on us to look formal. I am aslo around a whooping size 14 like alot of you others and i really dont feel that big but apparantly in todays culture im overweight. Im working on loosing weight but considering prom is in like a week i dont have much time. But thank you all for your stories it helped boost my seld esteem.

By: myah

myah — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:29:00 +0000

I am in the process of looking for a prom gown, and have found that their are a lot more options than there used to be. sydneyscloset.com, promgirl.com, promdressshop.com, and davidsbridal.com have a great selection. my only problem is that I am about a 22/24 in normanl clothes, so apparently my dress size is like a 26/28 or something!!! that is ridiculous!

By: msruth

msruth — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:14:13 +0000

This is such a beautiful project it made me tear up a bit (I’m a soft touch today). I went to my uni graduation ball this summer (prom doesn’t particularly happen in the UK) and I was so miserable, because I am just too big for the trendy shops kind of thing but was refusing to ‘let’ myself be plus-sized. As a result I was squeezed into the biggest size of dress and was wearing major ‘bridget jones’ knickers (by which I mean tummy support rubber creations that came up to my underwire and I had to get two other people to help me out of at the end of the night).
Basically, I couldn’t breathe, there was all this gorgeous food and drink and I could barely have any. I still had fun because I was with my friends etc, but it spoiled things just that little bit.

By: K

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:18:28 +0000

I really don’t understand the whole prom thing (since I’m British) but I remember well the horror of shopping for a dress for my sixth-year dance. It was the social event of the year. Girls were talking about what they’d wear MONTHS previously.

My mother and I moved heaven and earth looking for a dress that had sleeves. In 1996 there was NOTHING out there you could wear a bra under. Nothing.

I ended up with, yeah, an extremely, horrifyingly expensive black dress with silver sparkly bits. Which, luckily, I did quite like. It looked nothing like anything anyone else was wearing, though.

By: kitten_kat

kitten_kat — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:14:11 +0000

Thank you CindyS!

By: rei

rei — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:12:20 +0000

I was so anti prom…but my friends convinced me to ask someone and go and I finally relented.

Not really caring about the whole ordeal, I squeezed myself into a borrowed red dress.

The side seam of the dress split apart while I was in the middle of dancing and a friend just tied her shawl around it in a makeshift sash…the dance went on and I had a blast…

Probably because it wasn’t a big deal to me.

I could have felt awful for splitting the dress..and I did for a little while, but the guys and my friends just laughed and assured me that it was my boobs that busted the seam…and I was still gorgeous.

The dress was repaired, and then given to another girl for HER prom.

I must say…that’s a wonderful charity idea…
I’d even make dresses to donate.

By: fatfighter

fatfighter — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:08:27 +0000

Oh Lin…how “praumatic” :(

I burned my bangs with a curling iron if that makes you feel better. At least you had nice hair.