Would you let your daughter wear this dress to prom?

[Massacure]

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

[Bluebear]

1. Where's the dress?

I click on the link and only find some skanky looking undergarment!

[geniph]

34. My thoughts precisely, Bluebear

I suppose it'd make an okay looking bikini, but who dances in a bikini?

[GRLMGC]

35. Strippers, silly

:)

[Radio_Lady]

71. Can I say this without being deleted?

The girl would have to have industrial strength Post-It nipples (or Velcro ones) to keep those straps up.

[trof]

101. Nope, I don't think you can say the "n" word.

;-)

[LoZoccolo]

102. Oops, self delete.

[CottonBear]

2. No way. Not ever. Never, never, never. n/t

[Blue_Tires]

3. sad....where were the girls wearing dresses like that

back when i was in high school!?!?!?!??! (damn you, catholic school dress codes!)

[liberalhistorian]

LOL!

BT, it has been awhile for you, hasn't it? And living in Oh-hi-ya doesn't make it much better, this fellow Ohioan knows that for a fact!

[Blue_Tires]

25. not that long ago (10-12 years)

but i did grow up in Virginia, which probably had something to do with it

[liberalhistorian]

42. Ooops, I'm sorry, I got

you mixed up with BlueKnight, who lives near Cincinnati (I'm in Cleveland). Sorry about that!

[Radio_Lady]

72. Hey, the Catholic guys in my day...

regularly got into a variety of religious girls' pants.

They just had to suffer with the guilt about it (and even go to confession) while we Jewish kids didn't have to!!!!!!

[JVS]

4. I'd bribe the limo driver to drop her off at the convent

so that she can attend the nuns' reform school for wayward girls

[Bozita]

5. says it's a top seller -- have fun with that

[liberalhistorian]

6. HELL NO!

No way, no how, nein, nyet, NO! I wouldn't let her out of her room wearing that dress, let alone to a prom!

[JVS]

7. BTW, the lounge is way ahead of you GDers on this crucial issue

[RBHam]

9. snob...

sure. lord this trivial minutiae over us...

shame...

[RBHam]

8. Prom Dates Gone Wild!

And somebody spiked the punch with Ruffis!!!

Video pending...

[Kikosexy2]

10. Well...

if dear little Tiffany, Debbie or Tracy et al. want to get easily f*#ked then they're all set. Talk about trashy. Might as well wear J-Lo's old taped-to-my-boobs (Grammy Awards) gown or Toni Braxton I-have no-undies-show my beaver-(Grammy awards) gown. Come on young ladies have some class!

[Fla Dem]

11. No, No, a 1000 times no !!!!!! n/t

[uppityperson]

12. No cutouts in this bodice. No bodice. Only for Cher.

This is too funny.

[rqstnnlitnmnt]

13. it's not that it's revealing and slutty...

IT'S FREAKING HIDEOUS

[WillowTree]

30. Correct

And that would be IN ADDITION to the fact that it's too revealing and slutty-looking.

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

90. ...then there's that

[bloom]

14. subtitle - "PROM princess or porn queen?"

A result of porn gone mainstream?

All the easier to "freak dance"?

[MissB]

15. It is on backwards

Literally. I can't find my link anywhere but someone showed the real dress (available in black and red) and she clearly has it on backwards.

The other way is only slightly less revealing.

Oh, and I have sons. Thank goodness.

[bloom]

38. They advertise it as shown ->

http://www.impressionbridal.com/CTGproms051.php?type=0&style=4


click on #7

[LimeCoke]

40. Backwards Dress

Here's the link:

http://wizbangblog.com/archives/004895.php

On edit, the Post says the model in the red dress is wearing the dress correctly. Hm.

Final edit: apparently the manufacturer says it can be worn either way.

[latteromden]

16. So, now, HOW exactly is that worth $500?

[RubyDuby in GA]

17. No, but then again I don't have a daughter in Hooker School

[ET Awful]

18. No, but I know quite a few women I wouldn't mind seeing wear it :)

Of course none of them are young enough to be going to a prom, so it's a moot point.

[Mz Pip]

19. I wouldn't have let my

sons take a girl to the prom who was wearing that.
No way.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

20. yes

[jpgray]

21. Sure.

They're just breasts. Probably the school wouldn't allow it, however.

[WI_DEM]

22. Are you kidding?

Kids grow up too fast anyway these days. God let them be kids instead of little sex dolls. I know teenage boys, (I was once one myself) and I wouldn't encourage my daughter to flaunt around in something like that--in front of them or any male adult.

[RoeBear]

23. Maybe...

...with this sweater under it.

[Name removed]

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[Swamp Rat]

26. Would you let your child, family, or friend read the New York Post?

D'oh! x(

[DU9598]

28. I hope that model is 18

If not, that has to violate some federal statute (j/k)

[SOS]

46. Good Ole NY Post

Leave it the right-wingers to run a picture of a (nearly) topless 16 year-old girl and pass it off as some kind of "news" story.
The picture doesn't enhance the article, but rather the article was written to run the picture.
A Republican family-values newspaper at it's finest.

[Swamp Rat]

53. That's what I was thinking too... Got falafels?

[FizzFuzz]

60. Nailed it. n/t

[tx_dem41]

61. Not sure how you know the model is ...

16 yrs old...did I miss that reference?

[ScreamingMeemie]

27. No way. But I doubt that that one mom could have any say over who her 19

year old son dates. That gave me the giggles.

[Vinca]

29. Yikes! My husband wants to go to the prom!

I wouldn't let my daughter wear this unless we had both agreed her highest and best calling in life was to be a hooker. What the hell are people thinking????????????????

[secedeeconomically]

31. No but i wish my date at the time did lol

[GRLMGC]

32. It's ugly

I've see far cuter slutty dresses

[geniph]

33. Sure, if she needed to earn the rent money

Man, I'm no prude, but that's just not a dress. That's two straps and an attached skirt. Can't the girls who want that look just use a couple of shoestrings and save $500?

Who pays that much for a prom dress, anyway? That's a hell of a lot of money for a dress that'll probably be worn once and that you'll spend the whole night falling out of.

Years later, the girls who are unwise enough to wear this "dress" will look at the pictures and shudder in horror. "WHAT THE HELL WAS I THINKING? WHAT THE HELL WAS MY MOTHER THINKING, TO NOT TELL ME I LOOKED LIKE A STREETWALKER?"

[lateo]

36. No way in hell.

WTF is wrong with these people?

[seabeyond]

37. whaddya mean, i hear du'ers all over saying they want our girls

to dress just like this. watch the shows, see the sexuality at 5 learn to be a slut by 8. we embrace this all remember. we certainly dont want a girl to be a prude. oh no. we want this from our girls. and be strippers cause the pay is so good. i have heard the duers. freedom girls freedom, no repression, no self control. yeehaw

[JHB]

39. Who's buying it?

Just because it's being advertisd as a prom dress doesn't mean it's being BOUGHT to wear to a prom...

[LeftyMom]

41. Over my still-cooling corpse

I really would prefer my children not dress like sex workers.

[DrWeird]

43. Sure.

I wouldn't buy it for her, but if that's what she wanted to wear I wouldn't stop her.

[theboss]

64. Would the split be 50/50 or the more traditional 60/40?

Pimps up!
Ho's down!

[La Lioness Priyanka]

44. in addition i would wear it myself...if i could afford it

[arcane1]

47. ok

I'll pitch in :P

[La Lioness Priyanka]

49. why thank you

i think i would look great in that dress..... :P

[arcane1]

51. agreed

though the pictures may be too much for the lounge to handle :)

[WoodrowFan]

81. it'd liven up the DU gallery, that's for sure! (NT)

[DrWeird]

48. lol!

If I buy it for you...

[La Lioness Priyanka]

50. then i will take pics and post them in the lounge

:P

[WoodrowFan]

86. well! we're waiting!!

(tapping foot)

[La Lioness Priyanka]

87. i will post a whole thread about this ...just wait

i wore this without getting raped/pregnant or having my parents drop dead

[WoodrowFan]

88. rather modest

rather modest compared to the porn, er, prom dress


but fetching nonetheless!

[hunter]

45. "Streakers" threatened our prom and it was canceled...

This was back in the 'seventies, and it wasn't just the guys who were streaking.

Kids wore some pretty wild stuff at graduation too. I don't think anyone actually purchased outfits especially for graduation.

Shredded blue jeans and t-shirts were pretty common. One of my friends wore a "granny" dress made of some flimsy fabric, and I mean that is *all* she wore, no shoes or underwear or anything else. (She always had the toughest feet...)

A couple of kids wore swim suits.

There are three sad things about this story: that kids feel pressure to buy expensive prom clothes, that girls feel such pressure to be "sexy" at their proms, and the saddest thing of all -- that someone would design a dress like this as a promotional stunt.

I'm probably too old, and especially sensitive as a parent of teenagers, but I think "sexy" is something that should just happen. Buying a $495 prom dress won't make it happen.

The story I imagined when I first saw this picture was some creepy old rich guy buying this dress for his stepdaughter...

[davidinalameda]

52. not only no

but hell no

[gatorboy]

54. Looks like someone took it down!

Pic went bye bye.....

[Radio_Lady]

70. Gator, the link is still working at 6:55 PM Pacific Time...

Check your browser. Maybe there was a lot of traffic from... my husband and other folks...

[Mountainman]

55. Do they still check for thong underwear in San Diego?

I don't think many girls would want to wear a dress like that to a prom.

Like some of them said, it isn't practical and costs too much. I give the kids more kudos for common sense than I do for the designers.

I feel that this is much to do about nothing since no one wants to wear it anyway.

The girl in the picture is not wearing it like it was designed to be worn I think. It looks like something to sell papers.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

56. it should read "would you let your daughter wear this PORN dress"

[ladjf]

57. No.

[bloom]

58. I wonder if the people who said "yes" have daughters...n/t

[WoodrowFan]

83. did you see the designer's comments??

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.

"I have a 15-year-old daughter and, no, I would not recommend she wear this dress.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

84. i dont. but i was 17 not too long ago. and i wore similar things

without getting raped

pregnant

or any of the other mishaps that people say will happen to her

[ClassicDem]

59. I think that girl made a mistake, the straps go on the back!

n/t

[Democrat Dragon]

62. eek! you can't wear a bra with that!

[tx_dem41]

63. I think that's the point. n/t

[theboss]

65. You can't wear a pasty with that

My mother freaked because my date's dress had a long slit up the leg.

[ljm2002]

66. Is there some law...

...saying she can't wear something under the dress? Apart from the law that says "Tits sell newspapers", that is?

[Goddess Nephthis]

67. My Twin Daughters...

Took after me in the boobage depart and there is no way one of those dresses would ever be able to hold back what they or I were endowed with. Underwire? Nothing, nothing short of industrial steel straps would do.;-)

[Radio_Lady]

68. Kelly Ripa discussed it with Regis this morning on their TV show.

She wondered how a girl would dance without... er... losing them...???

She has a young daughter, Lola. Get ready for the ride of your life, Kelly. It's called "adolescence"! I took the ride five times with five kids. Glad that's over!

[in_cog_ni_to]

69. Over my dead body! Hell no!

THAT is over the line for a 15, 16, 17 year old girl. Nope. No way.

[JI7]

73. nope, and it's an ugly dress also

[buddysmellgood]

74. Only if I wanted to raise a grandchild next year.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

82. why wouldnt you raise your daughter to know how to use birth control?

[buddysmellgood]

138. Exactly. There's more to birth control than taking a pill or using a

contraceptive.

[infusionman]

75. Only if I wanted my daughter to get raped.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

80. your daughter has a right to say NO even if she walking

around naked.

[meisje]

76. If my name were Ron Jeremy, Yes!

[proud2BlibKansan]

77. This was posted a couple days ago

but it is a funny discussion with lots more pictures of prom dresses so it's worth checking out.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=2497121

[Djinn]

78. I'm more appalled by some of the responses here

"only if she wanted to raped"
"slut"
"only if she wanted to get fucked easilly"

since when does wearing anything mean you're a slut, or a looking to get raped? if you feel like wearing a shoelace and nothing else then that doesn't actually have anything to do with sexual assault or morality.

This is an ugly dress - not because of the boobage, but because it looks like something out of Dynasty, but if your kid could pay for it themselves there's NO WAY in hell any parent could stop them wearing it - I went to school with tonnes of girls with strict parents - they just came to school early and got changed/put on make-up in the toilets.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

79. liberals can be sexist too...and misogyny is rampant

[Djinn]

137. ironic kinda

because in most of the "sexist" threads I'm on the "other" side and getting flamed by all the feminists, but in this day and age the hoary old theory of "revealing clothes = easy sex" should have been well and truly put to sleep

[JI7]

85. agree, i think the dress is ugly

although the other styles of it i saw do look better than this one.

but regardless of the dress , nobody deserves to be raped or sexually violated in any way because of how they dress.

and it's naive to think you can tell a person's sex life based on the clothes they wear.

[SarahB]

92. It's disgusting.

I already wrote my rants on the other thread about this. What a person wear does not constitute consent for sex- logically or LEGALLY.

[da_chimperor]

89. Daaaamn, that's hot!

I wish girls were dressed like that at my prom. This is coming from a hormonal male in his early 20's, so I doubt female or more aged DUers will echo my sentiments.

[Floogeldy]

91. No. But if she were my step-daughter . . .

. . . I'd let her wear it around the house.

[Dedalus]

93. Yes, absolutely.

I would allow my daughter to wear that to prom. Under ideal conditions. And here are those conditions:

1. She wears the dress, but also writes "It's my body and I have the right to wear whatever I like and it doesn't mean I'm not also really really smart" on her exposed belly in black magic marker.

2. Her boyfriend ALSO wears the dress, and he writes "How come it's funny when I do it, but you're all judging her" on his exposed belly in black magic marker.

To clarify: I wouldn't *make* her write all that stuff etc., but I would suggest it, and since it's *my* daughter she'd probably agree that it would be cool.

By the way, I don't have a daughter.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

94. you know if you suggested that to me

adn i was your daughter ...i would do it...i think it is kinda cool

[Dedalus]

95. Thanks...

...for saying so, LP. I have long been an admirer of your posts.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

96. ohh thanks :)

[Dedalus]

98. Wow...

...two "h"s! How many "h"s are we allowed to put in an "ohhhh" before the thread gets locked?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

99. ha ha ha

[Cheswick2.0]

97. At Stripper High School?

Even if I didn't have the sense to say no I am sure the school would tell her to go put some clothes on. If they didn't I would certainly want to know why.

[RoeBear]

100. Here's the wedding dress

that she'll grow up to wear.

[LoZoccolo]

103. Anybody who would, PM me.

And let me know the date & time of the prom so I can plan.

[livinginphotographs]

104. Are you only talking about girls?

I need to know before I PM you...

[LoZoccolo]

105. Yes.

And only 18-19 years old. Sorry, I shoulda mentioned that too.

[LoZoccolo]

106. Would you let your daughter wear this dress to porn?

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

[matcom]

107. i HAVE let her

does that make me a bad parent?

[Debi]

109. I am certain that is just one of the reasons!

n/t

[LoZoccolo]

110. rrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaarrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaarrrrr

One guess what that is the sound of.

Hint: To Drudge, it means something really important is happening.

[jswordy]

112. No...but can you email me pix?

LOL

[da_chimperor]

114. your bad parent status will be revoked if you post a photo

and PM me her phone number. :D

[jswordy]

120. Uh, I asked first...but will grant sharesies...

heheheheh.

[da_chimperor]

122. Crap, beat me my a minute

x(

[LiberalinNC]

108. First of all, I don't want my daugther doing PORN....

AND I wouldn't let my daugther wear that to her PROM either! ;)

[da_chimperor]

111. Yay! Porn thread!

[LoZoccolo]

115. Oh shit you're right.

Fuck it's gonna get locked. Sorry!

[da_chimperor]

118. I'm just glad I got in on this before it goes down.

:hi:

[jswordy]

116. And I forgot my pornograph today! DAMMIT! n/t

[LoZoccolo]

127. Pornograph...

I don't want your...pornograph
I don't need your...pornograph
All I got is a pornograph...and it's not enough

[RoeBear]

113. This was pretty well covered yesterday

but what the heck...

Here's the wedding dress she'll wear:

[The Backlash Cometh]

117. What dress?

There's no photo, not even much of a descripton. OR maybe that's the point?

[aden_nak]

119. A skirt and suspenders?

[RoeBear]

121. So you don't have to surf to the NY Post

[jswordy]

123. Not locked yet?

WHEEEEEEE! I am so anti-authoritarian!

[da_chimperor]

124. Dude, they friggin' COMBINED a copy-cat thread with the original

:wow:

[jswordy]

125. (HIGH FIVE DOOD!)

IT'S...IT'S....ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!

[LoZoccolo]

126. I wonder if the copycat sub-thread will get BIGGER than the original! n/t

[jswordy]

128. Yes...perhaps it will SWELL to 3-5 times it's normal size!

ahem

[LoZoccolo]

129. Believe it or not, I have not yet actually seen the dress.

I'm at work, so it's not the best thing to have on my screen.

[jswordy]

132. Wedding

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=2512978&mesg_id=2517922&page=

[jswordy]

134. Link to prom dress

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=2512978&mesg_id=2518204&page=

[jmowreader]

130. If you wear it right, that dress is kinda cute

The "right way" to wear it, of course, is with a nice white sleeveless top under it. Without that, you'll look like something out of an old National Geographic.

What y'all don't realize is that the...uhh...design of this dress is on purpose. Let's say you're going to the prom and you decide to stop off for a Big Mac on your way there. Big Macs are a bit on the messy side, so you may dribble some special sauce in your lap. With an ordinary prom dress, you have two choices: go home and waste the hundreds of dollars you spent on your gown, or clean off the sauce and spend the rest of the night walking around with this big-ass wet spot right where it looks like you peed yourself. But with this versatile gown, you just go to the ladies' room, turn the dress around and you're ready for a full night of youthful fun!

[jswordy]

135. Yer top comment makes so much sense...

...and also shows how simply omitting that garment would turn a respectable dress into something more risque...say along the lines of what John Kerry's daughter wore to the Cannes film festival?

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/006161.html

[dr.strangelove]

131. Sure

If she felt comfortable in it, I would not have a problem with it.

[trogdor]

133. I assume the model is over 18.

The pic in the Post looks like kiddy porn to me.

[jswordy]

136. Well yeah, it IS Rupert, ya know. n/t