Spending hundreds on homecoming dresses? Am I out of touch with reality?

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Anonymous wrote:Jewelry is usually what brings it over $1000

Hilarious!

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Thrift stores or Macys, especially juniors section, have been great for us. Spent $40-50 on several short cocktail style dresses that have been worn again and dressed up and down ( combat boots vs high heels, chunky costume style jewelry vs classic gold or pearl jewelry etc) depending on the occasion. Good luck!

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Thrift stores or Macys, especially juniors section, have been great for us. Spent $40-50 on several short cocktail style dresses that have been worn again and dressed up and down ( combat boots vs high heels, chunky costume style jewelry vs classic gold or pearl jewelry etc) depending on the occasion. Good luck!

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Anonymous wrote:I’m pretty sure my homecoming dresses were around $100 20-25 years ago and my prom dresses were more than that. I think you may need to adjust your expectations a little.

+1 and it doesn't have to be a one time only dress. I wore some HS dresses to events in college.

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Go to Windsor. Lots of hoco dresses for under $10

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Anonymous wrote:You are totally unreasonable. I went to prom in 1993 and my dress was $180 and we were middle class. $60!8: absurdly cheap.

Prom is different from homecoming.

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Anonymous wrote:This is DD 9th grade year. I was under the impression dresses for homecoming cost around the $60 range. She seems to have a list of options under consideration in the $139+ ranges.

What do you usually spend on a homecoming dress? Am I unreasonable?

We are by no means wealthy or rich, it seems expensive for one evening that is not Prom.

Welcome to Biden/Harris’ America.
If you want more of this e price soaring ridiculousness, keep voting for it.

It amazes me the cognitive dissonance that people have that prevent them from connecting policies implemented by the people they vote into public office and the undesirable outcomes that are a product of those policies. So they just keep voting the same way and complaining about the resulting status of the economic circumstances they have to struggle with as a result.

Politicians are not your prom date. Stop voting like you’re picking a partner to go to dinner with and start voting like you want to keep some of your hard earned money in your own pocket!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is DD 9th grade year. I was under the impression dresses for homecoming cost around the $60 range. She seems to have a list of options under consideration in the $139+ ranges.

What do you usually spend on a homecoming dress? Am I unreasonable?

We are by no means wealthy or rich, it seems expensive for one evening that is not Prom.

Welcome to Biden/Harris’ America.
If you want more of this e price soaring ridiculousness, keep voting for it.

It amazes me the cognitive dissonance that people have that prevent them from connecting policies implemented by the people they vote into public office and the undesirable outcomes that are a product of those policies. So they just keep voting the same way and complaining about the resulting status of the economic circumstances they have to struggle with as a result.

Politicians are not your prom date. Stop voting like you’re picking a partner to go to dinner with and start voting like you want to keep some of your hard earned money in your own pocket!

Wait...are you really saying we should choose our president based on concerns about the price of sequined slip dresses at full retail at an expensive store?

Prices of gas, groceries, and sandwiches at my work cafeteria have been falling lately. If I was going to use consumer goods prices to determine my vote, I wouldn't start with HoCo dresses!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is DD 9th grade year. I was under the impression dresses for homecoming cost around the $60 range. She seems to have a list of options under consideration in the $139+ ranges.

What do you usually spend on a homecoming dress? Am I unreasonable?

We are by no means wealthy or rich, it seems expensive for one evening that is not Prom.

Welcome to Biden/Harris’ America.
If you want more of this e price soaring ridiculousness, keep voting for it.

It amazes me the cognitive dissonance that people have that prevent them from connecting policies implemented by the people they vote into public office and the undesirable outcomes that are a product of those policies. So they just keep voting the same way and complaining about the resulting status of the economic circumstances they have to struggle with as a result.

Politicians are not your prom date. Stop voting like you’re picking a partner to go to dinner with and start voting like you want to keep some of your hard earned money in your own pocket!

Nope. We paid the same for a dress this year as any other year and it was under $70. Take this crap to the politics forum.

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Anonymous wrote:Go to Macy's. I'd put the emphasis on actually trying on dresses, not looking endlessly online for inspiration

+1 or JCPenny. DD and her friends got their dresses at those places last year. JCP had a coupon so her dress was $40ish bucks. It’s the same as the dresses you see at Windsor or Lulu’s. She might rewear last year’s dress this year if we can’t find anything she likes.

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No way! You can easily find a dress way under $60 (sales, thrift store, ebay) no way anything over a $100 for homecoming or even prom.

Stand your ground.

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Thanks PPs! Looking into these sites and of course Macys. I believe one year as a teen I got a dress from Macys clearance downtown for homecoming.

I did not grow up celebrating homecoming to the same magnitude and I grew up here, local DMV. Homecoming was far less fancy than prom. We didn’t do limos or anything of that sort for homecoming. I get that these days there are booming proposals and outlandish displays of asking someone to homecoming but that would have been prom equivalent back in my day and there wasn’t a huge asking celebration either though.

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Got ours at Windsor for under $50.

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They all wear trashy little slip dresses. Why would it cost more than $60 to look like a street walker?

Meh, you are grouchy. Now that I am 57 and on the chubby side of normal, I am glad I took the opportunity to wear cute clothing that showed off my nice figure when I was younger and had the chance!

There’s looking good in your clothes when you’re younger and there’s looking cheap. The expensive looking subtleties in a well made dress that show off a figure are much better than the ones that are just tight all around.

No one is interested in your slut shaming slurs here, granny.

Whoever said this . This is not nice. You need to apologize to the lady giving heart to heart advice. You are attacking her cause she volunteered to mention her age. Are you even a woman or a disgusting perv lurking on the website for anyone who mentions their build or size . Go to hell

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I'd have bigger concerns than an extra $40

As a parent. How does it fit? Does it look trashy?