What Are Prom Kids Wearing Now?

[MetroStyles]

While I agree that many of these kids look very bad if viewed from a classic style perspective, they are just having fun and enjoying themselves at one of the biggest parties in high school.

Most people have no idea about correct formal style in high school, and even if they do, the point is not to be conservative. The point is to look good to your peer group and stand out - and that's what these kids are doing.

Even if someone looked amazing in their classic well-tailored peak-lapel black tuxedo, they would most likely be overlooked in the presence of other more flashy outfits. Would the inner smugness of knowing you are most correctly dressed really benefit them? Not really.

In the more adult world, where classic style is more accepted and expected, dressing to the code would be beneficial to the wearer. The situations and the peer group perceptions are different in either case, and call for different sartorial inspirations.

 

[Augusto86]

 

[Ispy]

^^ I really don't know what to say. I'm intrigued, truely, not only by the fact that one person thought that was a good look. But's what with his buddy who said "Damn, dude! That looks sweet! I'm doing it too, hand me that big ass tube 'o tan-in-a-bottle"

 

[Brigden]

They're kids, for chrissakes; cut them some slack.

They've got years to grow into fussy, socially maladjusted misanthropic obessive compulsives arguing over the most unimportant sartorial minutiae.

 

[tiecollector]

I wore a rented white tie formal tux with tails. This was just before ebay came out and I shopped all over for a cane, gloves, tophat but couldn't dine any. I don't even want to look at the one or two pics I have from prom, I can't imagine what size suit the lady put me in.

 

[why]

I was wearing Bermudas and a t-shirt, I think. I spent my prom money on a trip to LA. One of the best decisions I ever made in High School.

 

[bowtielover]

I can recall ym high school prom and I know for a fact that anyone who would have shown up dressed as the guys you discribed were would not have been allowed in. I guess things have changed since then unfortunatley. I remember when my sons junior prom last year and well I can say that he was finley dressed with the help of my visa, and his date looked respectable. The few people I was able to see as I arrived both to drop off my son and his date and to pick them up lookd moderatley well dressed, not like my son but decent to say the least. I did notice a few who seemed as if they were going for the bear minimum, which I find dispespectful to the prom tradition. Of course styles and taste in clothing will chage over the years, I am glad I didn't see any ruffles or velvet burgandy lapels but never the less there should still be a code of decency amoung both the boys and the girls when it comes to attendance of such events like these. I am proud of my son for being aware of this and wish I could say the same for for many of todays youth, but all I can say for them is that it is a shame, and over the years a few select of them will still be unaware of this and that is the real shame of it all.

 

[djs488]

back home in MD everyone wears rainbows and pastel shorts with there tux jackets and shirts. its a great look!

 

[theshonen8899]

I just had my prom last saturday and had an overwhelming desire to post my outfit on this thread

 

[breakz]

You bumped a thread (threak?) from 18 months ago to post a bad photo?