Would you let your daughter wear this prom dress?

[gollygee]

http://www.nypost.com/style/39213.htm

Yes, this is a PROM dress. For the PROM. Like for high school girls.



Just for the record . . . my answer is no.

I'm waiting for the toddler version though - it'll hit Target soon.

[flamingyouth]

1. It looks like it's on backward

And in answer to your question, no.

[fleabert]

21. I think it might be...check out my post later in the thread...nt

[Reverend_Smitty]

2. I'd let her wear it, only if...

she was going to the prom on "Whore Island"! WTF is wrong with people?!?

[DELUSIONAL]

3. It was probably designed for the bush twins

[pbartch]

74. It was designed for the slutty BLONDE Bush twin

What a hideous dress!!!

[barb162]

119. Yes, I thought of this for the Bush trailer trash sluts...perfect

[Shadowen]

4. Kinda sexy.

In, y'know, a slutty way.

And no.

[fleabert]

5. holey crap! nt

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

120. Consider the source. I smell a "fabricated moral outrage" story.

Moonie times. Nuff said.

[fleabert]

126. don't know if you saw this later but...

I had the same reaction at first, googled the designer mentioned and there it was! excite! .com or something like that. It does seem that the dress has been pinned or contorted to look a bit more skimpy in the article than the model on the actual website is wearing it. Shock value I guess.

Just a really bad designer IMO. LOL.

[norml]

158. T&A in the NY Post, another Murdock production.

"I don't think any girl would wear this to a prom. She'd step on her dress on the dance floor and everything would just fall out!"

From the NY Post article.

[JVS]

6. maybe if she wore a shirt underneath it

[mr_hat]

7. How does it keep... Nevermind. No!

Thank god my teens are boys.

[proud2BlibKansan]

60. I was just thinking

I am so glad I have boys and no daughters.

[sparky_in_ma]

8. Perfect for Paris Hilton

but that is so WRONG for young girls.

[Rabrrrrrr]

9. Absolutely not. It's very ugly.

Why even bother to dress at all, at that point? What's up with the slut look?

There's the practical problem - looks like something a whore would wear - but also the aesthetic one: it's an ugly design, cutwise, and the rhinestones or whatever they hell are look like shit.

[BikeWriter]

10. I wouldn't let my wife wear it, if I had a wife. Okay, but only...

...in the house. ;)

[JVS]

11. I prefer pasties with the tassles that can swing around, so much classier

[Donailin]

76. FOFL!

[Schema Thing]

12. That depends on what her college interest were

If she was majoring in sex industry marketing, sure.

[jswordy]

131. I went to college with a guy who was taking film as...

...a major with the intent of entering the adult film industry as a producer! He did, and made a fortune. LOL...true story!

[mitchum]

13. Maybe in Kentwood, LA...

home of Britney

[fluffernutter]

14. school dress codes around here wouldn't allow it.

not to mention any parents i know.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

15. i would wear it

[7th_Sephiroth]

65. and i would take you to the prom

(mwah)

[La Lioness Priyanka]

97. thank-you

i missed my prom in HS...

[7th_Sephiroth]

102. i never went to HS

its a looong saaad story

[La Lioness Priyanka]

105. why not?

[7th_Sephiroth]

109. home pressures

Parents divorced, father starting his own company, spending WAAAAY too much time at strip clubs, got homeschooled, started taking a few tech classes, got my GED in 2002

[7th_Sephiroth]

103. i never went to HS

its a looong saaad story

[Liberal In Texas]

16. That pretty much says one thing to the prom date.

I can't believe any school would let a girl wear that.

[fleabert]

17. Here's another version from the designer...and a lot cheaper on the web...

and their ad for the one posted...looks a little less skimpy kinda...still not appropriate IMHO.

[shrike]

133. Not quite as ugly in black, but still inappropriate

Believe it or not, my sister tried to wear something similar (but not quite as revealing) to the prom and I thought my dad was going to kill her. She did not wear it.

Her boyfriend went shopping with her and picked it out, LOL. He always did have rocks for brains.

[fleabert]

135. LOL! I can see some of my friends (the ones with the body for it)

wearing this dress, but I think it's more ugly than anything else! bad bad design! The straight waist, with cut-outs above would make just about anyone look very very wide!

[iamjoy]

18. That Is Disgusting

I don't have a daughter, but this is indecent

[bahrbearian]

19. Or let your wife wear this Dress?

[SharonRB]

25. Too clingy -- shows every line of her body

I really thought this was very ugly last week and still do.

[proud2BlibKansan]

61. Pickles has some

pretty big hips.

What a hideous dress.

[ironflange]

86. Gad, what hips

She could have given birth to Jenna and Babs Jr simultaneously.

[petronius]

93. It looks like that picture has been photoshopped...nt

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

142. Yes it was photoshopped, and very poorly

There is enough to criticize about these people w/o making up cheap shots like that pic.

[AngryAmish]

118. She did not give birth

She shat them forth.

[BiggJawn]

123. She sure does.

Yum!!! :9

[NickB79]

147. Dude

You have GOT to get out more....

[BiggJawn]

151. Ever been with a woman built like that?

Don't knock it till you try it....:P

[liontamer]

20. Yes

I'd let my daughter wear whatever she wanted to her prom. She'll learn that people judge women primarily on their appearance soon enough. She should at least have some fun before she understands the level of misogyny in the world.

[SarahB]

41. I'd probably try to convince my daughter not to.

For me, as the mom of an almost 13 year old, it's all too real, and while she's still a minor, I feel as though I'd need to protect her to a large degree.

However, I like your answer nonetheless. It's hard to understand why society wants to marginalize and demonize female sexuality to the degree it does. There's nothing wrong with breasts or sexuality. Breasts are both functional and beautiful and why it's always such a "thing" with so many Americans is beyond me. It's not like that everywhere in the world.

[Left Is Write]

46. But on the other hand - I wouldn't want my son

wearing just his trousers and a pair of suspenders to the prom either. I'd expect him to put on a shirt.

[SarahB]

50. I wouldn't either.

But, then again, as a male, no one would call him disgusting, slutty, or think anything else of him other than he has lousy taste.

[Left Is Write]

57. Oh, they might call him a "male slut" or a "himbo", but

in a boy's case, it would be considered funny or a joke, I'm sure.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

98. i agree. i would also wear this to the prom myself.

since i used to have the body to carry them off.

[SharonRB]

22. No F***in' way!

My daughter is 27, but there's no way I would ever have permitted it. Besides, she's way to big on top to have ever thought about it.

[notadmblnd]

23. only with a turtleneck underneath.

nt

[China_cat]

24. I'd have second thoughts about letting my son wear it.

[meganmonkey]

26. You wanna see an inappropriate promdress? Check this out:

http://www.uglydress.com/

[gollygee]

28. LOL! I've seen that before - a true classic!

Yes that is worse. :D

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

51. Reminds me of the ugly dress Mary Tyler Moore wore on that

episode; a hooker made it for her?! LOL!

[scarlett1]

73. I thought the same thing when I saw the dress

but I think the MTM dress the Hooker made was more modest.

[barb162]

117. oh my God

[jmowreader]

143. This solves one of every mother's worries...

that being "will my precious get knocked up on prom night?"

I assure you that, in this case, she will not.

[norml]

154. This photo was also in the Fwee Wepubwic thread that this is copied from.

As seen in FWeeperville. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1327794/posts

[norml]

155. This photo was also on Fwee Wepubwic on the same subject thread.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1327794/posts

[Ellen Forradalom]

27. Hell no

Even if it's only high-school girls who have the figure to pull it off.

[Liberal In Texas]

32. Their site says it comes in sizes 2-30 !

Another view, not quite as bad.

[gollygee]

34. So what, you can wear it either way?

that's just bizarre.

[yardwork]

95. Imagine what that would look like in size 30

[Amaya]

29. Hell No!

Yuck! :puke:

[LostInAnomie]

30. Jeezus! If that kind of dress in the norm, what do the whores wear?

eom

[Magrittes Pipe]

38. Sweats, a t-shirt, and a flannel.

Yes, it has all come full-circle.

[Pale Blue Dot]

31. I HAVE A DAUGHTER???!!!!

AAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!

Damn my misspent youth!

[BigMcLargehuge]

42. BWAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAH!!!!

you now owe me a keyboard (Apple Pro thank you very much...).

[terrya]

108. *I* HAVE A DAUGHTER??? Now, that is a REAL puzzlement.

:-)

[tigereye]

111. ah, but if you did, would you let her wear it?

;)

[name not needed]

33. Whoa! Where the hell is my daughter?

:o

[ikojo]

35. Um....NO....it sends the message that

the after Prom will take no time at all to get goin'

[HEyHEY]

36. I feel like I just did something illegal

[sakabatou]

37. Double stick tape anyone?

Urgh.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

43. Why bother wearing a dress at all!?

Sheesh!

[shesemsmom]

39. Not only is it ugly to the point of

nausea... no hell no my kid wouldn't leave the house in that.. or even be allowed to wear it in the house:puke: :puke: :puke:

[fleabert]

40. This designer is something else...I wouldn't let her wear this either...

[gollygee]

47. I hope my daughter grows up with better taste than that

Offensive for different reasons.

[Liberal In Texas]

49. I'll bet their web site hasn't had so many hits in a long time...

Here's another goody...

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

55. No wonder the brand name is "Xcite." Duh.

May as well make that motel reservation for her while you're at it. Good G-d. 'Here honey. Have fun!'

[ContraBass Black]

141. Ha ha ha!

Please.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

54. Look like someone threw up a rainbow.

[proud2BlibKansan]

63. Well that one is indecent

because it's so damn ugly.

[wolfgirl]

66. the other dress

was sleazy...but this Rainbow dress is beautiful.

[Left Is Write]

44. No. We don't buy prom dresses at Frederick's Of Hollywood.

It looks like suspenders, as if there should be a blouse underneath.

I don't think ANYONE should wear that, no matter how "good" her body is.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

48. No kidding.

It looks like something you would see listed as a fashion "don't". :eyes:

[Lone_Star_Dem]

45. That's just obscene..

There's no way my daughter would consider wearing it.

[Rabrrrrrr]

52. Absolutely! And I'd love it if she had a baby before she graduated.

And I'd make sure to teach her that a woman exists only for the sexual pleasure and gratification of men, and that she is not fulfilled as a woman unless a man is oggling her, fondling her, or making babies with her.

[RedCloud]

53. Well I thought I was permissive...

I know my oldest is prom ready, but females inherit chest size from daddies, then from grandmas, etc.

I know she would love to flaunt her treasures there...
But she has way too much "wiggle room" to wear something like that.

Sorry, but I am about 52 inches in the upper chest and my "little" girls are rapidly approaching and I am fearing that reduction surgery bill if it comes to that...

The hunter is suddenly the hunted (Bill Cosby line)

[warrens]

56. Nope-a, nope-a nope

That dress just screams "slip me a roofie and gangbang me in the back of the limo." And yes, it happens. Not only that, it's ugly.

[SarahB]

58. Dresses don't scream that, sociopathic, scummy males do.

The frighteningly still pervasive attitude in our culture that what a woman wears determines not only her character, but whether or not she will (or somehow deserves to) be raped is negating her humanity and value and a human being. No, I wouldn't wear that dress, but if I did (or my daughter did), it would not mean we were asking to be raped. :eyes:

[theboss]

90. Not disagreeing with your argument

But if I were a 17-year-old boy....and my date showed up in the outfit....I would be utterly convinced that I was getting laid that night. Hell, I'm 31 and if my date showed up in that outfit, I would be utterly convinced that I was getting laid that night.

A woman has every right to dress and behave exactly as she wants. But I try to remain grounded in reality and actions cause reactions. If you wear a dress like that, you have increased your odds expontentially of having your date try to dry hump you in the limo.

[SarahB]

139. A women wearing a dress like that....

is obviously trying to convey an image of sexuality. However, an image alone does not constitute consent. Men are responsible for their behavior. Nothing justifies rape. Ever. It doesn't matter if she was drunk, her sexual history, or what she wore. That is my point (also the law). If someone can't understand that, I don't know how else to put it.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

59. Here's some more for your viewing, er, 'pleasure..'

THE HOOTCHIE MAMA COLLECTION 2005!

[NV Whino]

64. Oh no! Lesbian dresses!

Next these guys will be designing for Spong Bob... of course he could use a little help.

Edit: Ooops, I think that's Sponge Bob

[radwriter0555]

75. Eh that's all stripper clothes.

Yikes. NOT exactly suitable for the prom though...

Any parent that first of all, thinks it's PRETTY is NUTS but lets a teenager wear it under ANY circumstances, including wasting the money to buy that piece of trash, is frickin INSANE.

[Biased Liberal Media]

81. Those look like dresses you see on strippers fergawdssake!!!

[Taxloss]

62. That's a pair of suspenders, isn't it? Where's the dress?

Short answer NO.

[fluffernutter]

67. um, how is she supposed to dance in that thing?

looks like they already had to airbrush her nipple just standing there :eyes: i can't imagine how you would move without falling out.

[Liberal In Texas]

68. Dance? Horizontally.

[WoodrowFan]

69. I seen more clothes in a porno.

that's a NO>

[scarlett1]

70. I assume it MUST be worn with red FM pumps

or maybe silver ones

[kedrys]

71. DAMMIT! Made me look...!

Um, NO.

I'm adding this to my list of reasons why it was a good idea not to have kids (currently on item #78,349).

[mcscajun]

77. I'm with you. Every Day There's a New Reason Why I'm Glad…

I'm Not a Parent.

Alleluia!

[cry baby]

72. Absolutely not!!! n/t

[Shananigans]

78. If I had that body...I'd probably wear it myself...

but that would just be to try it on in the store and have my friends laugh a little ;)

[davsand]

79. That dress is just bad on so MANY levels.

I have to admit that the blatant sex thing is just not appropriate to that age group, IMO. I can't help it--I know teens DO have sex and I know that looks are a huge deal even at that age, but that dress is just too icky for words, and I am probably a prude.

I also feel compelled to mention it is just an awful cut/design with horrid ketchup colored material and awful trim. That color is so bad I'm not sure ANY woman could wear it well.

About the only thing that has made me any more uncomfortable was that video of Jon Benet shimmying away in full makeup in front of a pageant crowd...

::shudders::


Laura

[Cadence]

80. Looks like her boobs are flossing!

I wouldn't let my daughter wear it and *I* wouldn't wear it. NO WAY!

[ogradda]

82. is that on backwards?

it's gotta be on backwards.

[Ramsey]

83. They all look likes prostitutes

The kind in really bad B-movies at that. Wow, how hideous. As great a believer in free expression (I was a teenager during the latter days of punk and used to shred my clothes), I'd forbid any daughter of mine to look like such a blatant tart! Have a little originality, please.

[alittlelark]

84. Over my dead body would she wear it.

I care not whether she uses my $$$ or hers. Not just ridiculously overexposed, but ugly as sin (although I do not believe in 'sin').

[ZoCrowes]

85. Uhm does she come with the dress?

If so I will take two

[wovenpaint]

87. Heh-I thought you'd written "porn" dress

that wasn't too far off tho!
This HAS to be modeled backwards....even so, I'd certainly NOT want my daughter to wear this!
She's 19 and you should see some of the clothes she does wear-gulp!
I try to explain that they not, um ,flattering -but she grew up with Brittany and says "it's the style"....I tend to agree with Sarahbelle's posts on this subject.
I grit my teeth and try to keep the faith!
She's really a good kid and I'm proud of her-besides, she's gorgeous! (saying this as my knuckles turn white)

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

88. If I had a daughter no. I don't think any school would

allow her to attend the prom wearing that outfit either.

[theboss]

89. Does that dress come with clear heels?

Is this a serious ad? I mean did someone really design this for 17-year-old girls? And if so, is that person in prison?

[serryjw]

91. $495.00....WTF? I have never spend that much on a dress

Is this REALLY the cost of Prom dreses?

[Ellen Forradalom]

100. Inverse relationship between fabric yardage and price

Seen how much bikinis cost?

[serryjw]

138. how clever of you!

n/t

[GoddessOfGuinness]

92. How demure!

Her bellybutton's covered.

[msgadget]

94. No.

It really is the type of dress you see on starlets entering awards ceremonies or worn by a hip club goer in a movie.

Can you even dance in this without falling out? Oh, and can you imagine proud dad putting this picture of Missy at the Prom on his office desk?

[DemBones DemBones]

96. Does it come with a purse

that quickly converts to a futon on the dance floor or wherever needed?

[Lavender Brown]

99. It is hideous, anyway

It looks like a bad figure skating outfit.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

101. The perfect shoes

[MissMillie]

104. Nope

And I'd be miffed at my son if he went to a dance w/ a girl dressed like that.

[ThorsHammer]

106. I don't have a daughter, but hypothetically my answer would be Hell No

That's just not appropriate for high school.

Speaking of controversial dresses, didn't some girl get barred from her prom after showing up in a dress made from the Stars and Bars?

[proud2BlibKansan]

136. Yes that one was posted here too

She had spent several months making the dress, asked if she could wear it, the school said no and she wore it anyway. So she filed a lawsuit. And the dress was hideous as well as not politically correct.

[skypilot]

107. $495.00!!!!!!

For that kind of money I'd want to whole damned dress. Where the hell is the rest of it?

[cheezus]

110. No. Then she'd move out as soon as she turned 18 an never come home again

[JVS]

115. Any kid who is enough of a dumb piece of shit to leave forever because..

she couldn't wear a revealing promdress isn't worth having around anyways. If my daughter disappeared because of that the only regret I'd have is wasting 18 years worth of resources on the little brat when I could have dumped her into an orphanage or something earlier.

[cheezus]

128. ah, this is exactly the sort of compassion i expect from DU

thank god I'm surrounded by democrats!

[SemiCharmedQuark]

132. But how far are you willing to bend over backwards so you don't upset her?

At some point some rule is going to piss off a teenager. And if she would be willing to leave forever because of a prom dress, it seems almost certain that she would leave forever for more important fights.

[gollygee]

134. If my daughter threatened to leave forever if I didn't let her wear that

I'd let her wear the dress. My daughter will be 18 when her senior prom comes, so she'll be a legal adult.

She'd probably get so embarassed at the prom she'd come home early anyway.

It isn't worth getting estranged over. But I would really really really work hard to keep it from getting to that point. I certainly wouldn't pay for the dress. That alone would probably be enough to keep her from wearing it.

[theboss]

152. If your daughter threatens to leave over a dress, something is very wrong

Parents make rules and enforcing rules is unpopular.

[WMliberal]

112. I'll let YOUR daughter wear it

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[gollygee]

113. My daughter is 2 years old

sicko

ROFL

[WMliberal]

114. ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

ok, I'll let someone else's daughter wear it then.

[barb162]

116. for a 2 yr old girl, with a t shirt underneath this would be fine.

Teenagers, I think NOT. My daughter would not be buying this or going out the door in this.

[Butterflies]

121. I don't have a daughter, but if I did she wouldn't want to

she'd have some of my genes, so she'd be too modest for that dress. That dress should not be marketed to teenagers.

[retread]

122. I would hope I had raised my daughter well enough so that by the time

she was 18 she knew the front of a dress from the back!

[jpgray]

124. Sure. (nt)

[BiggJawn]

125. High School girls in my town would FALL OUT of that thing...

how ya gonna keep them D, DD, and F cup girls in that dress?

[NickB79]

148. What exactly is in your town's water supply?

And how do we spread it across the nation? }(

[BiggJawn]

150. Silicon

The boob doctor gets more business at graduation time than the car dealers do these days....

[jswordy]

127. No, but I would....

...certainly like to spend some time with the young lady wearing it in the pic!

:headbang: :headbang: :headbang: :headbang:

[NC_Nurse]

129. Hell no.

I doubt my daughters would even want to wear it. No security there! What do you do, superglue it to your boobs? Lean the wrong way or bounce on the dance floor and you have a Janet Jackson moment on your hands.

Yikes! :eyes:

[HeyManThatsCool]

130. Actually Yes I would

In her room & not attending the prom because i wouldnt let me daughter leaves the house dressed like a common whore

[ignatius 2]

137. With a white turtleneck, otherwise, hell no, I've got enough problems w/o

a pregnant daughter to boot.

[ContraBass Black]

140. Holy------!

Where's the rest of it?:o

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

144. Now THIS is a prom dress (circa 1956)

You can practically smell the "Evening in Paris."



Why do designers try to improve on perfection? :shrug:

[Champ]

145. If she is 18

It depends on who is holding the prom says.

[dancing kali]

146. My thought upon seeing this picture

was "Oh look, another teenage trailer trash whore". Either that or a Messalina wannabe... not that I really think that she would know who Messalina was. That dress screams, "Get in line boys." My second thought was, "Damn, that's ugly."

I will give it one thing... judging from the waistband of the skirt... her butt-crack isn't showing. (That comment was heavy sarcasm if anyone didn't get it.) Of course then, I can't see how long the skirt is in this picture. It looks like a tight skirt - the cut around the hips and the beading decoration, not to mention the tasteless bodice, make it unlikely that it hangs in any other way than straight down. This means that it is slit, either up the side or up the back... and the slit is probably not a decorous to the knee type of slit. My guess is that it is in the back to match the decolletage in the front.

This is not a dress for a prom. On a teenage drag queen with the right attitude, maybe. If they lived somewhere more progressive than most places in North America. On a teenage girl... it just looks trashy.

Sorry about the rant but it will soon be dance festival season and I will be spending the next several months watching little seven-year olds in miniature slut costumes dancing to things like "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" and "Like a Virgin". Not to mention the teenagers who look like they should have a brass pole on stage with them. This particular issue has been my favourite windmill to tilt at for the last several years.

[Freebird12004]

149. NO !

[norml]

153. This is a copy of a thread from FWeeperville.

As seen on Fwee Wepubwic............... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1327794/posts WOULD YOU LET YOUR DAUGHTER WEAR THIS PROM DRESS?
New York Post ^ | January 24, 2005 | DANICA LO


Posted on 01/24/2005 8:32:44 PM PST by MisterRepublican


PROM princess or porn queen?

This prom dress is so skimpy, even the designer's CEO wouldn't let his teenage daughter wear it. But the dangerously revealing gown, prominently advertised in Seventeen Prom, YM Prom and Teen Prom, and on sale in a Midtown shop, is a top seller for the company this season.

"I was shocked when I first saw it, but now it's one of our top 20 dresses nationwide," says Nick Yeh, the CEO of Xcite, the Stafford, Texas, company that designed the dress and some 200 other styles this season.

snip

[CatholicEdHead]

156. Top seller for the company

The NYPost article says that this is the company's TOP SELLER. Expect lots of **think of the children*** stories from all around the country this spring.

[livinginphotographs]

157. Thank god someone kicked this.

I was just looking for this thread...