I’m not amazed that this “dress” exists. What does amaze me is that, according to the article, it was advertised as a prom gown in Seventeen, YM and Teen magazines.
The headline asks, “Would you let your daughter wear this prom dress?” I think we all know the answer to that one. I’m just wondering if any teenage girls would want to.
:eek: Great googly moogly!
That’s not a garment, that’s an anorexia facilitator.
And at $495, how many $$ per square inch?
Actually, in the rag trade, stitching costs more than material. Take two dresses, both with ankle-length skirts and long sleeves, but one has a low-cut back with crossed straps and a hole over the midriff, while the other is solid. The first one will be more expensive, due to the basting around the edges of the midriff gap and the straps. This is also why bikinis are more expensive than maillots. Unless the maillots have openings, crossed straps and so forth.
Honey, I’m a B cup since I was 13. I would fall out of that thing. Talk about uncomfortable!
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I know some girls who like to wear clothes I find “trashy”, but the only place where I’ve seen anybody with anything half as uncomfortable looking as that dress are the female hosts in New Year’s Eve TV shows - all of whom need to move in very strange ways to avoid falling off. That thing isn’t so much sexy as about as comfortable as a barbed wire bikini. I’d rather go as Barney, I would rather have gone as Barney when I was 17.
Didn’t I see something on fark or something that the model is wearing it backwards in the photo?
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“How would you wear it, anyway? Double-sided tape doesn’t last all night.”
Bwah!
Given the dresses I saw on my daughter’s classmates at the middle-school grade level, I would, sadly, not be surprised at all if someone wore that to her high school prom. Appalled, yes, but not surprised.
How long ago do you think you saw that? I just checked the last week of Fark and didn’t see it.
I woudl have no problem allowing my daughter to wear that dress to the prom - or anywhere else, for that matter. I would leave it completely up to her to decide whether she would wear it over or under her bra, slip and blouse.
The model apparently wore it without crossing the straps. There is a tiny picture of it with crossed straps on the dress website. Of course, even with uncrossed straps, the model on the manufacturer’s site fills out the dress better so it doesn’t look quite so indecent. It’s available in US sizes 2-30 if anyone is interested.
Now I have this unpleasant image of double-sided tape over one’s nipples. (I refuse to imagine my own in that condition).
Honestly, I once wore a deep-cut blouse, totally decent, at 17, and my father was appalled.
The part that skeeves me out most is the guy who says, “If my daughter had the body to wear that, I’d let her”. I mean, who talks like that? Who talks about their teenaged daughter’s body? Ew.
Speaking on behalf of my own size 18 ass, I would never ever ever wear that dress.
But maybe that’s just because I look bad in red. 
They make it in black, you know.
I’ve got some bad news for you, Sunshine - it’s a woman who said that - Helen Rodriguez!
Oh. Sure enough. Actually, that makes it not as bad for me.
Never mind. Nothing to see here. Carry on.
After seeing the second picture, I think the girl in the first one actually is wearing it backwards.
Man, I feel so much pity for these girls in high school today. In my day it was just regular old prom dresses, we didn’t have to look like hookers, ya know?
I knew I’d read that someplace.
And guys, you realize of course that this whole thread is one big ‘WHY, Kids today…’
I’m getting skeeved out here.
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I can picture maybe a model wearing that on a runway, but a high-school prom? Poor girl!