Classy Homecoming dress - do they exist?

[Anonymous]

I’m an old lady who can’t buy even an ugly dress without spending hundreds of dollars, getting it custom-tailored, and wear layers of undergarments, and after all that effort I still look bad.

Teen girls should find a cheap, short, small, tight dress makes them happy and go have the best time ever. It’s not like society ever gives women a window of time when you’re allowed to dress how you want without being criticized by pretty much everyone, so might as well enjoy it while you have a young body, parents who might pitch in to buy something, and friends to enjoy it with! I love seeing homecoming dresses on Instagram- it’s the closest thing left to the spring issues of Seventeen and YM!

[Anonymous]

The sneakers trend is awesome. I wish I’d done that in high school!

[Anonymous]

I am such a thing exists, but my 15 year old and her friends are not interested LOL.

It will be a sea of short, tight cheaply made dresses with sneakers and they will look adorable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am such a thing exists, but my 15 year old and her friends are not interested LOL.

It will be a sea of short, tight cheaply made dresses with sneakers and they will look adorable.

You are so right. I have boys and their Homecoming pictures include a sea of girls in short, right dresses. I know my 15 y/o self would have worn exactly the same thing if I were a teen today!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We don't have a physical store in this area, but I think Dillard's has a good junior's department with decent options:

https://www.dillards.com/c/juniors-dresses-homecoming-dresses?emphasize=$mfName%3AGB

+1 for Dillards. I got my daughter a few dresses when she was going to Bar/Bat Mitzvahs last year. They have a a range from short and fitted to more modest.

[Anonymous]

Y'all didn't wear sneakers to go clubbing in the 90s? We definitely did. Big thing in rave culture.

[Anonymous]

Lulus has a wide selection
https://www.lulus.com/categories/13_805/homecoming-dresses.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m an old lady who can’t buy even an ugly dress without spending hundreds of dollars, getting it custom-tailored, and wear layers of undergarments, and after all that effort I still look bad.

Teen girls should find a cheap, short, small, tight dress makes them happy and go have the best time ever. It’s not like society ever gives women a window of time when you’re allowed to dress how you want without being criticized by pretty much everyone, so might as well enjoy it while you have a young body, parents who might pitch in to buy something, and friends to enjoy it with! I love seeing homecoming dresses on Instagram- it’s the closest thing left to the spring issues of Seventeen and YM!

Perfect! Everyone, please read this.

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Anonymous wrote:Even the cutest girls from the fanciest privates all look like cheap Vegas or game show hostesses. So unfortunate….. but my prom years were pretty pitiful too. White eyelet and pastel ribbons in the early 80’s. Does anyone remember Gunne Sax from late 70’s early 80’s?

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I decided this was not the hill I was going to die on. They all wear short and tight for Homecoming - as long as everything is basically covered, I'm ok.

Yep. One of the fairly conservative - in all ways - families I know shared a pic of their daughter in a barely there homecoming dress. Kid's at the top of her class, varsity athlete. One homecoming dress isn't the cornerstone of their entire lives.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even the cutest girls from the fanciest privates all look like cheap Vegas or game show hostesses. So unfortunate….. but my prom years were pretty pitiful too. White eyelet and pastel ribbons in the early 80’s. Does anyone remember Gunne Sax from late 70’s early 80’s?

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I decided this was not the hill I was going to die on. They all wear short and tight for Homecoming - as long as everything is basically covered, I'm ok.

Yep. One of the fairly conservative - in all ways - families I know shared a pic of their daughter in a barely there homecoming dress. Kid's at the top of her class, varsity athlete. One homecoming dress isn't the cornerstone of their entire lives.

In my experience it's the girls from the so-called socially "conservative" families who wear the trashiest dresses. Look at the pictures from the Catholic HS dances sometime.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank God your DD will look classy. The last dance I went to most girls looked like a bunch of cheap hookers, cheap dresses or not. When they go to college and go out, everyone will laugh at them. Parents, teach the difference between hot and trash please.

Um, no. No one will laugh at them, because that is how all the girls dress these days. It has nothing to do with their level of sexual activity.

[Anonymous]

I always wonder about their dates. Boys have such high testosterone/horniness at that age and their dates are practically naked. They must be sporting wood all night.

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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.

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Having modesty standards is no longer in vogue.

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

I am a mom of two teens and not sure what you are talking about. Wearing heels or dress with short dresses makes the look more extreme than sneakers. You would rather your girl wore a short dress with heels? really?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m an old lady who can’t buy even an ugly dress without spending hundreds of dollars, getting it custom-tailored, and wear layers of undergarments, and after all that effort I still look bad.

Teen girls should find a cheap, short, small, tight dress makes them happy and go have the best time ever. It’s not like society ever gives women a window of time when you’re allowed to dress how you want without being criticized by pretty much everyone, so might as well enjoy it while you have a young body, parents who might pitch in to buy something, and friends to enjoy it with! I love seeing homecoming dresses on Instagram- it’s the closest thing left to the spring issues of Seventeen and YM!

I love you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some day they will look back and cringe ….

I look back at my HS photos and wonder why I didn't appreciate all that beauty and youth.