Classy Homecoming dress - do they exist?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Help please! I don't mind my daughter wearing a tight, short dress, but I also don't want her to look like she's working the streets. Any tips on where to buy an appropriate and "not old lady" dress?

Welcome. You must be new here. Please allow me to apologize in advance bc you’re about to get flamed for daring to insinuate what you just insinuated. Just because retailers‘ homecoming dress inventory looks EXACTLY like what a girl in the 80s-mid 90s would have worn to an ill-advised “hookers and pimps”-themed college costume party doesn’t mean you’re allowed to point that out. Don’t believe your lying eyes. Nothing to see here. You’re just supposed to allow your daughter to wear these dresses as if it’s totally normal and fine. #progress
Also don’t sexualize young girls.
But let’s absolutely make sure they look as sexualized as possible.
Except don’t point that out, you creeper!

No wonder these poor girls are confused.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Help please! I don't mind my daughter wearing a tight, short dress, but I also don't want her to look like she's working the streets. Any tips on where to buy an appropriate and "not old lady" dress?

Welcome. You must be new here. Please allow me to apologize in advance bc you’re about to get flamed for daring to insinuate what you just insinuated. Just because retailers‘ homecoming dress inventory looks EXACTLY like what a girl in the 80s-mid 90s would have worn to an ill-advised “hookers and pimps”-themed college costume party doesn’t mean you’re allowed to point that out. Don’t believe your lying eyes. Nothing to see here. You’re just supposed to allow your daughter to wear these dresses as if it’s totally normal and fine. #progress
Also don’t sexualize young girls.
But let’s absolutely make sure they look as sexualized as possible.
Except don’t point that out, you creeper!

No wonder these poor girls are confused.

+1
Having modesty standards is no longer in vogue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Help please! I don't mind my daughter wearing a tight, short dress, but I also don't want her to look like she's working the streets. Any tips on where to buy an appropriate and "not old lady" dress?

Welcome. You must be new here. Please allow me to apologize in advance bc you’re about to get flamed for daring to insinuate what you just insinuated. Just because retailers‘ homecoming dress inventory looks EXACTLY like what a girl in the 80s-mid 90s would have worn to an ill-advised “hookers and pimps”-themed college costume party doesn’t mean you’re allowed to point that out. Don’t believe your lying eyes. Nothing to see here. You’re just supposed to allow your daughter to wear these dresses as if it’s totally normal and fine. #progress
Also don’t sexualize young girls.
But let’s absolutely make sure they look as sexualized as possible.
Except don’t point that out, you creeper!

No wonder these poor girls are confused.

+1
Having modesty standards is no longer in vogue.

It’s more about not imposing those modesty standards onto others.

Obviously you can decide what rules to set for your children. What’s “progress” is being honest and accountable in articulating our rationale for those standards.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The tightest dress styled with some youthful, trendy accessories and shoes will be fresh and sort of innocent.

Honest question who are you hoping will read the dress as “fresh and sort of innocent?”

I'm not hoping anything, this is an esthetic perspective for OP who'd would like her daughter "not to look like she's working the streets" or wearing "an old lady dress".

[Anonymous]

Reformation

[Anonymous]

This is what they wear op. The fire I see actually have their cheeks hanging out of their “shorts”.

[Anonymous]

There’s a formal store in Potomac Mills called Camille La Vie which has a really good selection. It is tough and I acknowledge what you’re saying. Some of the styles are very pretty but too “grown up” for the HS freshman and sophomore set. They’re more like what I would expect a woman in her early/mid-20s to wear at her slightly older cousin’s fancy bachelorette party.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The tightest dress styled with some youthful, trendy accessories and shoes will be fresh and sort of innocent.

Honest question who are you hoping will read the dress as “fresh and sort of innocent?”

I'm not hoping anything, this is an esthetic perspective for OP who'd would like her daughter "not to look like she's working the streets" or wearing "an old lady dress".

Aesthetic.

[Anonymous]

I have a daughter who went to homecoming recently and I actually liked her dress. It was fitted and shorter than I would have picked, but not skintight or low-cut. She got it at Aritzia in Tysons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just let her pick her own dress and avert your eyes.

Agree with this. Unless breast or cheeks are showing.

Last year’s homecoming dresses were all breasts and cheeks. I could not believe it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Help please! I don't mind my daughter wearing a tight, short dress, but I also don't want her to look like she's working the streets. Any tips on where to buy an appropriate and "not old lady" dress?

Welcome. You must be new here. Please allow me to apologize in advance bc you’re about to get flamed for daring to insinuate what you just insinuated. Just because retailers‘ homecoming dress inventory looks EXACTLY like what a girl in the 80s-mid 90s would have worn to an ill-advised “hookers and pimps”-themed college costume party doesn’t mean you’re allowed to point that out. Don’t believe your lying eyes. Nothing to see here. You’re just supposed to allow your daughter to wear these dresses as if it’s totally normal and fine. #progress
Also don’t sexualize young girls.
But let’s absolutely make sure they look as sexualized as possible.
Except don’t point that out, you creeper!

No wonder these poor girls are confused.

+1
Having modesty standards is no longer in vogue.

+2

Also, moms of girls, can we do something about the sneaker craze with these too short, too sexy dresses?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Help please! I don't mind my daughter wearing a tight, short dress, but I also don't want her to look like she's working the streets. Any tips on where to buy an appropriate and "not old lady" dress?

Welcome. You must be new here. Please allow me to apologize in advance bc you’re about to get flamed for daring to insinuate what you just insinuated. Just because retailers‘ homecoming dress inventory looks EXACTLY like what a girl in the 80s-mid 90s would have worn to an ill-advised “hookers and pimps”-themed college costume party doesn’t mean you’re allowed to point that out. Don’t believe your lying eyes. Nothing to see here. You’re just supposed to allow your daughter to wear these dresses as if it’s totally normal and fine. #progress
Also don’t sexualize young girls.
But let’s absolutely make sure they look as sexualized as possible.
Except don’t point that out, you creeper!

No wonder these poor girls are confused.

+1
Having modesty standards is no longer in vogue.

+2

Also, moms of girls, can we do something about the sneaker craze with these too short, too sexy dresses?

What do you object to about the sneaker craze? I think it's fantastic that the girls are valuing their own comfort and their ability to dance, over fashion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Help please! I don't mind my daughter wearing a tight, short dress, but I also don't want her to look like she's working the streets. Any tips on where to buy an appropriate and "not old lady" dress?

Welcome. You must be new here. Please allow me to apologize in advance bc you’re about to get flamed for daring to insinuate what you just insinuated. Just because retailers‘ homecoming dress inventory looks EXACTLY like what a girl in the 80s-mid 90s would have worn to an ill-advised “hookers and pimps”-themed college costume party doesn’t mean you’re allowed to point that out. Don’t believe your lying eyes. Nothing to see here. You’re just supposed to allow your daughter to wear these dresses as if it’s totally normal and fine. #progress
Also don’t sexualize young girls.
But let’s absolutely make sure they look as sexualized as possible.
Except don’t point that out, you creeper!

No wonder these poor girls are confused.

+1
Having modesty standards is no longer in vogue.

+2

Also, moms of girls, can we do something about the sneaker craze with these too short, too sexy dresses?

Now you are just a control freak
I can see people objecting to the dress because of different modesty expectations, but nothing wrong with wearing what you want on your feet.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone remember Gunne Sax from late 70’s early 80’s?

Loved them!! But, I also love the sneaker phase!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Help please! I don't mind my daughter wearing a tight, short dress, but I also don't want her to look like she's working the streets. Any tips on where to buy an appropriate and "not old lady" dress?

Welcome. You must be new here. Please allow me to apologize in advance bc you’re about to get flamed for daring to insinuate what you just insinuated. Just because retailers‘ homecoming dress inventory looks EXACTLY like what a girl in the 80s-mid 90s would have worn to an ill-advised “hookers and pimps”-themed college costume party doesn’t mean you’re allowed to point that out. Don’t believe your lying eyes. Nothing to see here. You’re just supposed to allow your daughter to wear these dresses as if it’s totally normal and fine. #progress
Also don’t sexualize young girls.
But let’s absolutely make sure they look as sexualized as possible.
Except don’t point that out, you creeper!

No wonder these poor girls are confused.

+1
Having modesty standards is no longer in vogue.

+2

Also, moms of girls, can we do something about the sneaker craze with these too short, too sexy dresses?

I completely understand the concern about these dresses but what on earth is wrong with the sneaker craze? That is a style I can totally get behind.