# Doper prom picture thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 6, 2008, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-prom-picture-thread/466604 "2008-10-06T00:02:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-prom-picture-thread/466604/41 "2008-10-06T21:53:55Z")
> [@malkavia](#): > > No prom here, but I have some pictures from my (currently defunct) wedding. > > [Dad walking me down the aisle](http://farm1.static.flickr.com/36/108474307_5e2540da43.jpg) (this is my favorite picture of us) Ooh, I love that green shawl around your arms! You look gorgeous, of course! ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-prom-picture-thread/466604/42 "2008-10-06T22:11:18Z")
> [@ladyfoxfyre](#): > > Alright, I found 2 that are worth sharing. Actually my senior prom was really nice and we had a good time, I still like that dress šŸ˜‰ > [Me wearing my dateā€™s hat](http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a214/ladyfoxfyre/IMG_0432.jpg) > [Not my date but a good friend](http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a214/ladyfoxfyre/IMG_0433.jpg) > [All of us at dinner (Iā€™m in the back)](http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a214/ladyfoxfyre/IMG_0436.jpg) > Granted it wasnā€™t that long ago. Enjoy! The first pic is just adorably, classically sexy! ---
**Author:** ![thirdwarning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-prom-picture-thread/466604/43 "2008-10-06T22:20:31Z")
> [@Hockey\_Monkey](#): > > I dug up my momā€™s! šŸ˜ƒ > > [http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w122/pimaspinner/Mommys%20Pics/scan0128.jpg](http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w122/pimaspinner/Mommys%20Pics/scan0128.jpg) > > That would have been c. 1965. My sisterā€™s junior prom dress was similar to that. Not surprising, in 1966. Her hair was still up the next day, since it was too stiff to take down. Iā€™ll have to dig for mine. ---
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2008, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-prom-picture-thread/466604/44 "2008-10-07T00:25:17Z")
> [@Cowgirl\_Jules](#): > > [Junior Prom](http://www.flickr.com/photos/cowgirljules/510189583/in/set-72157600237346989/), 1986. Obviously a parent photo. I donā€™t have most of my pictures from that era, but this was in an album of my grandfatherā€™s that was given to me after he died. Holy crap - I had that exact same dress. I will bring the picture to work and scan it tomorrow!!! Also, 1986 šŸ™‚ For those of you who canā€™t appreciate the FINE details, the skirt had alternating panels of lace and dotted swiss! ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2008, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-prom-picture-thread/466604/45 "2008-10-07T00:37:41Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > Thanks šŸ™‚ The ballett slippers were mostly in consideration of the fact that my date was younger and not too much taller than me, but it worked out rather nicely. Other girls with sore feet said they wished theyā€™d thought of it too. I had the same issue and my mother scoured the town to find me a lovely pair of (flat) gold sandals to wear with my peach-colored dress. I think they were just thrilled that I finally had a ā€œboyfriendā€ at the advanced age of 17. We drove to the prom in his great antique car with another couple. Both guys came out shortly after high school. Iā€™m not sure what this means, and if you are, please donā€™t tell me. ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2008, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-prom-picture-thread/466604/46 "2008-10-07T00:59:39Z")
Skip, are you sportinā€™ wood in that pic? Kinda looks like it. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2008, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-prom-picture-thread/466604/47 "2008-10-07T01:05:12Z")
> [@Hockey\_Monkey](#): > > Iā€™ll be 37 this month. There are some more recent pics of me floating around here somewhere, but Iā€™m about a hundred pounds heavier now. ā˜¹ (Itā€™s OK though Iā€™m working on it now.) Hon, you look fabulous! Donā€™t let the weight get you down ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2008, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-prom-picture-thread/466604/48 "2008-10-07T01:11:13Z")
Woo, check us out! Arenā€™t we lovely? [Here I am](http://www.roadq.com/jean/prom_sm.jpg). 1991. I was a middle-of-the-road fashion person, so itā€™s not very dramatic, but youā€™ll notice I have an 80ā€™s perm despite the fact that I have naturally curly hair. No wall oā€™ bangs for me, thoughā€“curling irons and hairspray donā€™t like me. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2008, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-prom-picture-thread/466604/49 "2008-10-07T02:23:40Z")
I just spent a solid hour looking for a box that I know is labeled ā€œFRAGILE - MASTER BEDROOMā€ and on top of it ā€œSENTIMENTALā€ (which means ā€œDo Not Open Until Oldā€) - with no luck. Somewhere thereā€™s a picture frame with ā€œA NIGHT TO REMEMBERā€ on it (not _intentionally_ a Titanic reference) and a champagne class with special confetti in it and a souvenir ticket. Iā€™ve only lived in this house three years - where could it have gone? I wanted to show you guys how terrifyingly scrawny my arms used to be! ETA - but I found my pearls! The ones my parents gave me for my twentieth birthday! The ones that Iā€™ve been looking forā€¦ evidently since I packed that OTHER box labeled ā€œFRAGILE - MASTER BEDROOMā€ which evidently meant two Beanie Babies, a box of checks (now wrongly addressed), and zero actually fragile items. Some sentimental ones, but it wasnā€™t labeled as such. But my pearls! ---
**Author:** ![Susie\_Derkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Susie\_Derkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susie_Derkins)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2008, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-prom-picture-thread/466604/50 "2008-10-07T02:57:36Z")
These are great! Here are mine: [Junior year](http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y152/susie_derkins21/scan0001.jpg) (Iā€™m the one in the middle) [Senior year](http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y152/susie_derkins21/scan0002.jpg) (my mom cropped out my dateā€¦we donā€™t like that guy anymore) '90 and '91. Fellow late 80ā€™s/early 90ā€™s graduates, letā€™s have a moment of silence for the cans of Aquanet that died by our hands. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2008, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-prom-picture-thread/466604/51 "2008-10-07T03:28:32Z")
I canā€™t find my prom pictures. Iā€™ll share [my favorite wedding picture](http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v101/jsgoddess/?action=view¤t=santa20hat.jpg) instead. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2008, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-prom-picture-thread/466604/52 "2008-10-07T04:29:05Z")
> [@Susie\_Derkins](#): > > These are great! Here are mine: > > [Junior year](http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y152/susie_derkins21/scan0001.jpg) (Iā€™m the one in the middle) > > [Senior year](http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y152/susie_derkins21/scan0002.jpg) (my mom cropped out my dateā€¦we donā€™t like that guy anymore) > > '90 and '91. Fellow late 80ā€™s/early 90ā€™s graduates, letā€™s have a moment of silence for the cans of Aquanet that died by our hands. Your friend on the left in the first photo, has all the brown hair in the world. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2008, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-prom-picture-thread/466604/53 "2008-10-07T14:25:27Z")
That is indeed some fabulous hair Susie had assembled there. I have a couple of mine scanned ā€¦ but where are they? Iā€™ve got the most nerdalicous shot to share! ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Cymbeline](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_cymbeline/32/9244_2.png) [@Green\_Cymbeline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Cymbeline)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2008, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-prom-picture-thread/466604/54 "2008-10-07T19:42:45Z")
Hereā€™s mine: [Senior Prom, 1993](http://brookenelson.com/prom1993.jpg). Itā€™s a parent shot. I wouldnā€™t be caught dead in something that sequin-y nowadays. But it worked at the time! ---
**Author:** ![Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bites_when_provoked/32/18073_2.png) [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2008, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-prom-picture-thread/466604/55 "2008-10-08T07:57:05Z")
> [@nyctea scandiaca](#): > > Hereā€™s mine: [Senior Prom, 1993](http://brookenelson.com/prom1993.jpg). Itā€™s a parent shot. I wouldnā€™t be caught dead in something that sequin-y nowadays. But it worked at the time! It sure did! Great outfit (love the matching shoes) and very classical style; the sequins are the only things that actually ā€˜dateā€™ it. ---
**Author:** ![Susie\_Derkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Susie\_Derkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susie_Derkins)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2008, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-prom-picture-thread/466604/56 "2008-10-08T13:19:34Z")
I wonder if girls today ever get their shoes dyed to match their dress? I got mine from Payless both years; they had maybe 10 styles/heel heights to choose from at the time and a TON of colors you would choose from a book. ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2008, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-prom-picture-thread/466604/57 "2008-10-08T13:21:47Z")
> [@Susie\_Derkins](#): > > I wonder if girls today ever get their shoes dyed to match their dress? I got mine from Payless both years; they had maybe 10 styles/heel heights to choose from at the time and a TON of colors you would choose from a book. I donā€™t think they do - and they donā€™t wear pantyhose anymore either. That was half the fun in the 80ā€™s - picking out cool pantyhose. ---
**Author:** ![Litoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9f8e36/32.png) [@Litoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Litoris)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2008, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-prom-picture-thread/466604/58 "2008-10-08T14:28:51Z")
> [@Susie\_Derkins](#): > > I wonder if girls today ever get their shoes dyed to match their dress? I got mine from Payless both years; they had maybe 10 styles/heel heights to choose from at the time and a TON of colors you would choose from a book. Nope. My daughter looked at me like I was nuts when I wondered about it out loud while we were trying to decide which shoes she would be wearing last year. Apparently, thatā€™s another dated thing. I never had to dye shoes, my junior prom, I wore black, so I had plenty of shoes to go with it, and my senior prom, I lucked out in a big way. I really need to scan my senior prom pics ā€“ the dress was made from some velvet drapes that a friendā€™s grandmother was throwing out and I managed to find a pair of shoes as well as a hat that matched the velvet _perfectly_. ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2008, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-prom-picture-thread/466604/59 "2008-10-08T15:03:56Z")
I _loved_ those dyeable shoesā€“they were so satiny and pretty! I do believe I wore a pair, undyed, on my wedding day. I wore black shoes to prom, and canā€™t remember whether they were the dyed kind ot not, but I bet they were. With sheer black pantyhose. ---
**Author:** ![Freyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freyr/32/5763_2.png) [@Freyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freyr)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2008, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-prom-picture-thread/466604/60 "2008-10-08T16:36:29Z")
> [@Litoris](#): > > **Freyr** , what a beautiful happy couple you are! Thank you for sharing those! _blush_ why thank you! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-prom-picture-thread/466604.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-prom-picture-thread/466604.md?page=4)