I came across a pin on Pinterest this morning that a girl had entitled “my DREAM prom dress.” This was the dress:
The world will never know if the girl was being facetious or not, but needless to say I was horrified that this dress has not only been manufactured but some girls aspire to wear it to prom!
I followed the pin to its source only to find an image gallery entitled “Slutty Prom Dresses” (hopefully this is a hint that the girl was joking… but it was on her style board!!!) Now, I could pick apart the feminist issues of the term “slutty,” the author’s titles for some of the dresses (future stripper?), and need to objectify the clothing choices of women in general. I didn’t even glance at the user comments at the bottom… the horror!
But I would like to just stop for a moment and ask a simple question… why?!? Now, I will say some of these dresses do not appear to actually be prom dresses but some of them certainly seem to be appealing to the teen masses.
So seriously fashion industry. Explain to me. Why?!?









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Why don’t parents interject when their daughters dress like that? I was 17 at prom time. Hell, I’m 19 and my mom lectures me when my skirt is too short.
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Oh…yikes.
These are so cheesy looking.
Not sexy…not young, not “popping”.
Just tacky.
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Those are prom dresses? I thought those girls were modeling bikinis with sarongs. Wow. Was I mistaken. Of course my parents would have never let me wear anything like that, I wouldn’t have chosen something like that for myself!
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The teenage boy in me is shouting approval, but the grown man in me is telling me something very different.
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belly dancer = WANT ONE. I love the dresses with the sides cut out.
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if the zebra one wasn’t zebra patterned it would probs be okay, but the unfortunate fact is it is.
Highschool grad is so expensive! Prom tickets alone were $120, plus grad pictures, grad fees, grad wear, and on top of that the cost of looking good for all the events!…for all the money i spent, i wonder if i’ll actually care 40 years from now.
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OMG! The last picture! The girl in the brown dress? I’m surprised she was even allowed to attend the prom while wearing that.
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Blargh.
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i love some of these slutwears
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why does everyone want to dress ‘slutty’ these days?
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Plain trashy,
but the brown one is actually alright.
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I like the red one… not for prom but yeah..
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You wouldn’t have been allowed into prom wearing something like that at my school.
tulip / 18 posts
However horrendous they all are, the zebra one would be really cute in a solid color…
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Whatever happened to the idea of looking classy? :/
daisy / 522 posts
my god. these people who designed these are NOT worthy of being called designers.
dahlia / 2012 posts
Princess Leia called. She wants her slave costume back.
ranunculus / 3457 posts
The second pic, the two girls with blue dresses, was taken in Russia. Let me tell you something about Russia. If sluts/prostitute/slut goldiggers were airplanes, this entire country would be an airport.
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It’s not normal to be wearing these, really. These are just the worst of the worst. But really, they’re only bad in the ugly sense. Why call girls slutty for feeling comfortable in their own bodies? I think it’s important for girls to not feel the need to be eyecandy for men, but if the case may be, then we shouldn’t call the girls dirty names for feeling insecure about themselves. About half of the “kids” who went to my prom were 18. What’s wrong with a woman’s sexuality?
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Ok, the first one before the post looks like she put it on backwards. The pink one would be ok, if you don’t have double D’s as boobs, like that chick does. The blue one is cute, but a bit too short for my liking. And the rest? Ewww. Just ewwww. School dress codes should NOT allow shit like this, soooo uhh….
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prom dresses get trashier and sluttier every year…
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Because we are to teach our daughters that the only way to go to the prom is to dress trashy Duh!
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@ohhmademoiselle@xanga - Haha, Im 22 and my mom is still like that
But, OMG.. Not only are these just plain slutty, they are ugly!
orchid / 213 posts
hahaha OMG. the last one isn’t even a dress at all! it’s a skirt with some.. boob covers.. and.. an arm band? faillll.
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I like the brown one but not as a prom dress. I don’t know anyone whose parents would have allowed them to wear it. The last picture, with pastie girl,I can’t believe their dresses weren’t against the dress code.
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The blue one would be cute as a fairy or something for halloween.
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Dude…I went to a “Christian” school. We couldn’t even have a low neckline (had to be able to touch the top of the dress three fingers down from your neck), so, “slutty” wasn’t an option for me. LOL
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I actually saw a couple people in the zebra dresses. I think proms supposed to be more class than this…
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Having the sides cutout isnt slutty to me. But they’re ugly lol
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well if you have the boobs for it may as well…
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I wore a tea-length bright orange dress with beading and cap sleeves to my senior prom. Sure I was the only one wearing a dress that was a)short and b)cap sleeved, but I’m 99.9% sure that anyone wearing a dress like that wouldn’t even make it in the door at my little brother’s prom…
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pfff..you think these are bad?
My prom was filled with girls like in that last picture. Boobs everywhere
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Those are all terrible… I would never have worn that to prom. Or anywhere. Ever.
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^yeah. the 6th one didn’t look so bad. i can picture out an actress on the red carpet wearing something like that. & the 2nd to last one looks like a costume for belly dancers, but if it were a prom dress? trashy!
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That first photo with the pink dress and garter belt had me laughing for a good while.
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Some of them don’t look that bad but there are others that I wouldn’t let my (imaginary) future daughters wear EVER.
magnolia / 1357 posts
@ohhmademoiselle@xanga - I’m 22, two months away from being 23, and my mom would still slap me if I tried to walk out of my house in any of those dresses.
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Some of theses are not bad but I wouldn’tconsider them formal. This looks more like club wear.
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Half of these aren’t even that bad… I mean, some of them are really risque, but its not a big deal really…
They’re still covered.
daisy / 505 posts
Haha the 7th one, I can think of a handful of people who wore that dress to my senior prom.
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I actually really liked a few of those, just not as PROM dresses.
rose / 980 posts
hahaha The last one isn’t a dress at all, it’s circles of fabric taped on with a skirt.
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I really like the brown dress, but of course the occasion wouldn’t be for prom.
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That last one… Ew.