Prom Princess or Porn Queen?

[TLK]

hxxp://www.nypost.com/style/39213.htm

WOULD YOU LET YOUR DAUGHTER WEAR THIS PROM DRESS?

January 24, 2005 -- 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.

"Our biggest sellers are still the traditional princess ball gowns, but sometimes a parent will come in with their daughter and will buy her whichever dress she wants," Rodriguez said.

"If my daughter had the body to wear it, I'd let her!"

It's too early to tell how many girls in New York City will buy the dress, but those who do may have a hard time getting through the prom door.

While it's up to individual school administrators to rule on prom fashions, the Board of Education maintains a disciplinary dress code that prohibits "wearing clothing or other items that are unsafe or disruptive to the educational process."

Lisa Maffei-Fuentes, principal of Christopher Columbus High School in The Bronx, bans "anything that resembles the famous [green Versace] J.Lo dress."

"I personally have to check every dress," says Maffei-Fuentes. "Breasts must be entirely covered and there should not be any cutouts in the bodice.

"On the night of the prom, we have chaperones at the entry looking at every dress. We also provide needle, thread and pins to close up holes and fix dresses to the appropriate length," she says.

"This is for their own protection. We're there to help them experience the prom as a wonderful, dignified evening."

Parents who saw pictures of the dress were shocked.

"It's absolutely too much," said Tal Mandler of Woodmere, Long Island, whose daughter, Dana, is 13. "It is very provocative and does not suit the occasion or the age."

"What happened to the rest of it?" wondered Hilda Salazar, whose 17-year-old daughter is a high school senior in Brooklyn.

Asked whether she'd allow her daughter to wear the dress to prom - or if she'd allow her 19-year-old son to date a girl who did - Salazar answered with a resounding no.

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."

It is now, almost seven years later, that I regret not going to my prom. Having said that, why would anyone wear this?... and why would any parent in their right mind, allow their daughter to wear this?

[TLK]

dola...

there is a pic of the dress at the link....

[rkmsuf]

ohh, I'd hit that, prom style.

[Pyser]

edit. click for prom boobiess.

[Ksyrup]

Originally Posted by TheLionKing

dola...

there is a pic of the dress at the link....

Good, because I was beginning to think this was the "Segway Prom Dress" if there was no pic to go along with the story.

[Ksyrup]

Geez, that's barely appropriate for an awards show.

[rkmsuf]

That picture is making me horny.

[Wolfpack]

Are you (expletive) serious?? There better be a wad of tape under those straps. No, my daughter isn't gonna wear that. Of course, it helps that she's 14 months old rather than 17years old, so it's a nonissue. I shudder to think what creative minds will produce when she IS 17. I think she's not going at this rate.

[JeeberD]

No way in hell I would let a daughter of mine wear that thing. Now if I were back in highschool and my girl wanted to wear it...that would be a different story.

[Ksyrup]

Originally Posted by Wolfpack

Are you (expletive) serious?? There better be a wad of tape under those straps. No, my daughter isn't gonna wear that. Of course, it helps that she's 14 months old rather than 17years old, so it's a nonissue. I shudder to think what creative minds will produce when she IS 17. I think she's not going at this rate.

I'm in the same boat, with 5 year old and 8 month old daughters. The downside is that they'll look like tramps. The upside is that by the time they go to their proms, the dresses will likely only consist of duck tape over the nipples and will not cost 1/100th of what my prom date's dress cost.

[miked]

If I were her date, or bigger than her date, it would just take a creative little "bump" to finish the job.

[Blackadar]

Uh...no.

[Coffee Warlord]

To my non-existant daughter, should she dare want that: "That better be just a large bra." Followed shortly by. "You out of your fucking mind?"

[sachmo71]

Her boobs are weird looking.

[bbor]

2 sided tape does wonders....but i'm sure it's a killer on the nipples...i mean,who likes glue in their mouths

[sovereignstar]

Originally Posted by Pyser

for the lazy. cant be bad to link to the ny post, can it? if it is, ill take it down.

Thank you. Maybe we should start hxxp'ing links to other threads featured on this board.

[cuervo72]

Originally Posted by sachmo71

Her boobs are weird looking.

Yeah, they have some sort of cloth over them.

[Ksyrup]

Maybe she's got it on backwards. Those look like the back straps.

[bbor]

Originally Posted by cuervo72

Yeah, they have some sort of cloth over them.

[Suicane75]

Maybe it's cause shes.......12?

[Coffee Warlord]

Great quote from a friend of mine I showed this to.

"Anyone who wears that, in two hours, will be wearing nothing but the remains of a 40oz and dried sperm."

[rkmsuf]

Originally Posted by Suicane75

Maybe it's cause shes.......12?

Don't ruin this for me. She's at least 17.

[TLK]

I e-mailed the article to my sister, who is 16. I told her to print out the picture, and go tell my mom that she found her prom dress. Good times...

[rkmsuf]

for the lazy. cant be bad to link to the ny post, can it? if it is, ill take it down

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[chinaski]

hopefully someday the powers that be will realize any company that gives you shit for 'questionable material' isnt going to allow any non work related web surfing period on company time, making the whole hxxp thing unnecessary.

[JeeberD]

Originally Posted by sovereignstar

Thank you. Maybe we should start hxxp'ing links to other threads featured on this board.

SD has said before that if it's a racy picture the source doesn't matter. He doesn't want folks at work to get in trouble if their boss comes by and sees a half naked teenager on their computer, even if it's from The Times.

Of course, maybe they should just be working instead...

[Suicane75]

Stop making excellent points.

[Klinglerware]

Originally Posted by Pyser

for the lazy. cant be bad to link to the ny post, can it? if it is, ill take it down.

NY Post = Tabloid

[JeeberD]

Originally Posted by Suicane75

Stop making excellent points.

Sorry...there's a first time for everything.

[Pyser]

ok, i edited it.

my life would cease to exist if i couldnt post here for 72 whole hours.

[rkmsuf]

Sov, you are on the clock.

[JeeberD]

Is sov gonna test The Man?!?!?!

[Chubby]

LEAVE IT! LEAVE IT!

[Suicane75]

I could make that dress stick to her nipples without any tape.

[gottimd]

Originally Posted by Suicane75

I could make that dress stick to her nipples without any tape.

Gentlemens Glue?

[Suicane75]

Originally Posted by gottimd

Gentlemens Glue?

Teeth Whitener.

[rkmsuf]

Very good for the skin.

[SunDancer]

[quote=TheLionKing]Lisa Maffei-Fuentes, principal of Christopher Columbus High School in The Bronx, bans "anything that resembles the famous [green Versace] J.Lo dress."

"I personally have to check every dress," says Maffei-Fuentes. "Breasts must be entirely covered and there should not be any cutouts in the bodice.

"On the night of the prom, we have chaperones at the entry looking at every dress. We also provide needle, thread and pins to close up holes and fix dresses to the appropriate length," she says. [quote]

Too bad its a female principal, a male principal would have a fun job with that.

[Loren]

Originally Posted by rkmsuf

Very good for the skin.

but ohh SOOO bad for the hair

as far as the dress, $495 wtf..by a set of diamond earrings for 200 bucks pin em on your nipples and drape a curtain as a skirt, just as much coverage and cheaper and noo, would never in a million years let my kid wear anything that resembled that

[gottimd]

Originally Posted by Loren

but ohh SOOO bad for the hair

as far as the dress, $495 wtf..by a set of diamond earrings for 200 bucks pin em on your nipples and drape a curtain as a skirt, just as much coverage and cheaper

Pix pls.....of both.

[Klinglerware]

hxxp://wizbangblog.com/archives/004895.php

Update: It appears that it is possible that the NY Post photographers may have made the model put on the dress backwards on purpose just to generate a story. Not completely conclusive evidence here, but I wouldn't put it past the scumbag Post to pull a stunt like that...

[Loren]

Originally Posted by Klinglerware

hxxp://wizbangblog.com/archives/004895.php

Update: It appears that it is possible that the NY Post photographers may have made the model put on the dress backwards on purpose just to generate a story. Not completely conclusive evidence here, but I wouldn't put it past the scumbag Post to pull a stunt like that...

k, there's no real difference in the back or front view to me so IF she had it on backwards(which i dont think she did, if anything it looks like maybe the posts model had a size too big on so it didnt hug her in enough) it's null...

[scooper]

As a parent I want to state that in no way whatsoever would I mind my son dating that girl.

[Ksyrup]

That's funny. I guessed up above that she might have been wearing it backwards. It certainly looks that way.

[Klinglerware]

Originally Posted by Loren

k, there's no real difference in the back or front view to me so IF she had it on backwards(which i dont think she did, if anything it looks like maybe the posts model had a size too big on so it didnt hug her in enough) it's null...

You could be right about the dress not being on backwards. But if you compare the NY Post model (red dress) and the other model (black dress), it still looks like the Post either selected a model and/or altered the dress in such a way that would make the dress look as scandalous as possible.

Yeah, the dress is pretty racy and probably wouldn't pass muster at most proms in either case. But when you see the dress worn correctly, it doesn't seem to be as menacing to society as the Post would have you believe...

[JeeberD]

I think this person had it right (comment from the blog):

Actually, if you look at both pictures, it is worn correctly. The Post picture is a little misleading in two ways.

1. Since the picture is taken from straight on, it hides the fact that the dress curves under the girl's arms.

2. The girl in the Post picture has adjusted her dress to show more cleavage. There is another picture on the vendor's website (the small picture with the two girls) that seems to show more cleavage as well. It is shot from the side, so the dress side is more apparent.

Posted by: Steve L. at January 25, 2005 10:45 AM

[Bad-example]

That dress looks like something straight out of the original Star Trek.

[JeeberD]

I like sov's adjustment of the original pic...

[sterlingice]

Originally Posted by Loren

but ohh SOOO bad for the hair

as far as the dress, $495 wtf..by a set of diamond earrings for 200 bucks pin em on your nipples and drape a curtain as a skirt, just as much coverage and cheaper and noo, would never in a million years let my kid wear anything that resembled that

Call me crazy, but that's what I noticed: $500 for half a piece of cloth?

SI

[CamEdwards]

yeah, this is freaking unbelievable. Who the hell would buy that for their daughter?