Getting More American By The Day!!

Was talking to my sister about my niece Danielle. She is leaving Sixth Form this year and they are having a huge Prom-style party to celebrate.

All the girls buy fancy Prom-dresses (some have spent over £300!!!! I am 37 and wouldn't spend that on myself, my bloomin' wedding dress wasn't that much!!! ), they are going to the salon to get spray-tans, hair done etc. The boys all wear a tux and they get crosages for the girls and have button-holes to match! Some of them are clubbing together to hire a Limo to take them to the venue (a LIMO!! hell, I begrude paying for a flipping taxi when I go out!!!)- which incidentally is a posh hotel with a three-course dinner. They are only 18!!!!

I said flaming heck - when we left school we pelted each other with eggs and flour and water and wrote on each others school-blouses then went into town around the shops for a laugh and that was it. We still got told off at home for wasting a good shirt by writing on it!!!!!!!!!!

Like Colin said - how things have changed

You must be the same age as me hun, that's what we done when we left, now the turn up in roll's etc to prom's.xx

we had a valedictory dinner when we finished high school,

i made my outfit!

Got a pattern for a fifties style skirt and made it longer in black cotton adn wore a pink gypsy style top from new look...

other girls just wore a nice dress and lads wore suits...

we had a three course meal and disco....but it wasnt a hotel and the school paid for our coach to take us there!

it was our school tradition for about 40 yrs!

Yes, it was eggs and flour for me as well.
You have got to feel sorry for the kids who can't afford the dress and the limo

I know!!! I'm 37 BTW

No way would she go on a coach!!! Heaven forbid!!!

there was no choice...private transport was banned and parents had to ring the school to get the address so they could keep it a surprise!

that way it was kept fair!

It was better that way At the risk of sounding ancient, they don't know they are born now!

We had "proms" during sixth form, but they were held at the school, attended by the teachers etc

We got dressed up, e.g. lads in tux's and girls in nice dresses, but we all hired or borrowed our dresses mostly...

It was a buffet and disco basically, in posh clothes!

A friends daughter has just been to hers, held at one of the poshest hotels in Blackpool, and they had limo's etc. They've spent a fortune on dresses etc, ridiculous!

[quote=Anne-Marie;1366816]I know!!! I'm 37 BTW


Snap me too.

I know, when Christopher left, well the main streem part of school, he stayed on for 6th form, he went to a prom, we hired him a tux, and he was picked up by stretch limo, and they went to a hotel for a meal and dance.

My friends niece is about to go to hers, and I was seriously shocked to find the dress would be in excess of £300 and probably only worn the once

Back in the good old days, when I was a young girl