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.
"I have a 15-year-old daughter and, no, I would not recommend she wear this dress.
"As a businessman," he adds, "I'm not judging what a teenager should wear or not wear. It's up to the parents to decide for their own children."
In fact, some shops in smaller cities require girls to bring in parental permission slips to buy the dress, Yeh told The Post.
At Elite Designs, a formal shop in Midtown that has the barely-there gown on a mannequin, owner Surinder Nagpal says, "We've gotten a few calls about that dress. Originally, I wasn't going to stock [it], but my sales associate told me that girls would want it, so we're stocking it in black and red."
So far, says Helen Rodriguez, Nagpal's sales associate, no one has bought the $495 gown - but it just arrived.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
No way there either!
Looks like a wardrobe malfunction just waiting to occur.
A gownless evening strap.
You sure that isn't a preggo wedding dress?
Eeeee yikes!
That's scary!
This is a really popular thread.
Nothing gets freepers' blood boiling like a picture like this.
Ay carumba!
Gentlemen expect their ladies to have a little more class.
Friends don't let friends post DU smileys.
(please don't flame -- I mean this as a helpful hint)
Students at Stuyvesant High School were just as appalled.
"Our school doesn't have a dress code, but I don't think any girls would wear that to prom," said senior Mary Zhang.
"How would you wear it, anyway? Double-sided tape doesn't last all night."
Senior Daniel Belu and junior Katie Hammond laughed out loud at the sight of it.
"I wouldn't want my girlfriend to wear this - at least not in public," Belu said.
"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!"
Most of the students we spoke to were primarily concerned with practicalities. "You couldn't dance in that dress - actually, you couldn't do anything at all," says junior Vivian Healey.
"If you wore that to prom, you'd be falling out of it all night," says senior Angela Cho. "There's also hardly any material. I can't believe it costs $400. You could make it yourself if you really wanted to."
Other students expressed aesthetic concerns. "I don't think anyone would wear this to the prom. The dress looks kind of whore-ish," says junior Emma Herr.
"This dress would look great at a prom if the model in the picture wore it," says senior Vlaz Ermant, "but we don't have any girls like that at our school."
Isn't it being sold at Velvet Jones University, where a young lady could find courses on "How to be a ho."
Ding Ding Ding! We have a winner! LOL!
She wears this dress to the junior prom and the pregger dress next year. It's a plan.
My 18 year old wouldn't even wear a gown with spaghetti straps. It had to have regular shoulders and cover all of the cleavage. She'd call this slutwear.
That CANNOT be a comfortable thing to wear...
Actually, I pity the HS adminstrators/chaperones who have to deal with this. Inappropriate, but who defines this? Alot of dresses show cleavage...this shows almost everything else...so where does the line get drawn?
I think you mistakenly took a frame from "Bride of Frankenstein"...
Oh I am so glad you explained that sequence of wearing which dress.LOL
This says:
"I am OK with my daughter being a slut. She will be pregnant while in her teens but that is OK, because I will stick the taxpayers with the bill for her bastard and as grandma I can use those welfare checks and foodstamps for my cigarettes, gin and cheeze."
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