My 15 yr. old grandson got asked to the prom last night by a girl who was going with other girls so he wants to go and they are frantically running around trying to locate a tux as the Prom is tonight. Daughter has the corsage ordered and they have the dinner reservation made and are now going to check available tux at a couple places $150.00. I told her I thought buying one might be a good option because he will need one for 2 more years but too late for tonight..
18 yr. old grandson is also going and daughters are taking pictures for me. His first date. May hear some humorous reports, although probably not from the guys. They would be too embarrassed.
I remember my Prom in 1955. I didn't go with anyone, just myself and I had a white calf length formal all netty and strapless. It was in the gym and in our small town dancing was not allowed. I can't remember anything about it except that I thought I looked drop-dead gorgeous in my white dress. I think the guys wore suits.
I remember my junior prom in 1955,also. I wore a purple dress with straps, not strapless gowns were allowed by my strict mother. Anyway, I had a wonderful time with a really, really great guy. The song I remember is "Cherry Pink and Apple blossom White". My 18 year old grandson recently attended his prom. He and his friends rented a hummer limousine. What did you do at your prom if dancing was not allowed?
I can't remember. Next class meeting next month I am going to bring up the subject. I don't think they dance much at the Prom's now. Granddaughters are not much into dancing. I think they mainly "walk the red carpet in couples " while parents take pictures and have finger foods and punch and then the class has a all night party someplace.
Oh, I remember mine. I'd been dating others, but a classmate I barely knew called & asked me to the prom. I had no special feelings about anyone, certainly not him, but after the prom, on the way home, when he leaned over from the driver's seat at a stop sign and kissed me, whispering 'You're so good,' I knew I'd spend the rest of my life with him. He's the boy I married, lived with for 53 years and nursed through AD.
I don't remember much about our senior prom (high school) except that my date is now my wife and that my parents and her parents were the chaparones. When I got her home after the prom we found that her parents were not home yet. They and my parents had gone off somewhere and go back much later.
I remember that my high school senior prom, which was mid-year, had duelling bands. The group that was supposed to arrange everything had gotten a rock'n'roll band (!scandalous!), this at the beginning of 1953!! and the scandalized Others got a small traditional - or maybe just a pa system?! I don't remember how it worked out physically, but I do remember that no one danced to the rock-n'roll. Otherwise, it was the usual stuff.
I invited a friend, not a boyfriend, who had been seriously hurt when he had been involved in making a "coke-bottle-bomb" that exploded outside the high school. He'd lost his hand, but another kid was killed and two others seriously hurt. So he had missed the semester and wasn't graduating, couldn't come to the dance without a date. (my boyfriend of the time was away at college) We lost touch.. I've googled him and he's been I think a history teacher...
I went to my prom with the man who became my husband.....we started dating when he was 16 and I was 15....we married when he was 21 and I was 20.....we were married for 40 years before he died in March of 2008. Talk about a life long commitment...LOL.....!
My high school junior prom (1953) was really special. I asked the campus queen six weeks in advance so she would not have the excuse that she had a date already. Bummer of a time though, 'cause all night, all kinds of guys kept cutting in to dance with her. I should have gone stag.
Well, my sr. prom was in 1948. i never missed a dance. My father had bought me a blue formal with I was a sophomore. It was floor length with a dropped waist. One dress. That was it. That poor dress made it to every dance.
By my senior year, the dress was empire and balllarina length. I had to alter it here and there, put wide satin straps on it. I pulled my bra-straps down so they wouldn't show and away I went. I had the best time.
My dance card was full. Do they have dance cards any more? His name was Wally.
I remember A girl named Sally had a new dress for every occasion and the one she wore that night was bright yellow. She asked me in front of a bunch of my friends if that was the same dress I'd worn the last time. I thought she was stupid and I answered "Yes, it is and how much I enjoyed the dress." I told her my father had bought it for me and it was all paid for.
What a fun time that was. What a memory. I wonder what Sally is doing now. Probably still wearing that yellow dress.
And, you folks thought I was a sweet little old grey-haired lady. (ha)
As I read through these comments I wonder how many of us married our date from the HS senior Prom? I did. As did Bettyhere, Sandi*, and Dazed. Any others?
I went to the Sr. Prom in 1957 when I was a Jr. in High School, I went with a very attractive and intelligent Sr. girl. We dated some after that but it didn't go anywhere as I had to finish High School, joined the Army after graduation and then went on to college. We lost touch, she went to another college in the other end of the state. I ran into her a few years later, she had not married, but I had married my first wife. (darn it!)
I did not marry my prom date. I went to another party at his church with my prom date.I met my DH at that marty on March 23, 1948. We got married on March 25, 1950. I was 16 when I met him but didn't date him until after my graduation and 17th birthday. He was 21. When we got married, I was 18 and he was 23. We just celebrated our 59th anniversary. It's been a good marriage. He was my very best friend. Handsome, funny, polite, sensitive, a loyal friend and a wonderful husband and father. I could not have asked for more.
Prom -- what Prom? Dancing at a school function would have been considered scandalous in my small hometown in rural Mississippi in 1946 -- I think they had a banquet instead, and I didn't attend because my sweetheart at that time had already graduated a year earlier and was attending a nearby junior college. I was devastated about six months later when she sent me a "Dear John" letter while I was in Navy boot camp, but all's well that ends well -- I started dating my DW after getting out of the Navy about two years later and we married in 1949 after courting for a year.
I do remember my not-prom. My mom (who was quite a seamstress) made me the most beautiful pale pink confection I had ever seen. Alas, it is still in the plastic bag hanging in the back of my closet, un-worn. I got stood up. :(
Oh, Diana, so was my son & he was so really handsome. That's enough reason to hate someone. I'm so sorry and I love your dress. He's middle-aged now & married, hope she's a bitter spinster--little twerp! (Mom's can talk that way.)
Betty -The worst part about it was...HE ASKED ME! Anyway, I hope the mean girl that stood you son up is a bitter spinster, too. I do know that the awful boy that stood me up is not married and living in CO. Teenagers can be so mean! :)
I wrote about my 15 yr. old grandson going to the Prom. Well it was last night and I haven't heard a report on how it went but my daughter had spent the day rounding up his Tux, flowers, etc. since he didn't decide to go until midnight the night before. The 16 yr. girl is on the track team with him and had planned on going with girlfriends etc. then she talked him into going.
She was driving because he has no license. I went over to see them and got there about the time she did. She looked adorable in a darling little red dress just above the knee, her hair all done up, you get the picture. I told her how beautiful she looked etc. Went to the door and here comes grandson with shirt hanging out trying to figure out how to do the cufflinks, no shoes, etc. He said Hi but didn't swoon over how georgeous she looked and I am satisfied she spent at least 3 hours getting ready. I wish you could have seen the look on her face. "Your're not ready", she said. Well son in law, who is a photog. was trying to get his equipment ready so I helped grandson along with his date, finish getting dressed. Pictures went well and they were off. Told daughter next year for her to be there.
Other grandson 18, was out working on a fishpond until half an hour before time to pick up his date. Hadn't washed his car, cleaned it out. Are all boys like this? I had girls doing the Prom and this was a first experience with guys.
lmohr, I'm not sure all guys are like that. My youngest son (now 26) and all his friends gathered at our house at 10:00 am. on prom day. They all cut each others hair (w/clippers) in the garage. They had lunch, then started showering. (there were 4 of them.) My hubby and I helped them with their tuxes, cuff links, etc. I picked up all the corsages, and then we all headed over to my son's dates house where the girls had been getting ready all day. They all looked gorgeous! An hour for pictures (all the parents were there) and off in the limo they went! What a wonderful memory!! ps...my son's prom date is now my beautiful DIL:)
Went to the prom my sophomore and junior year, but not senior. My senior year I had a boyfriend that was much older than me. Our proms were held in the school gym of which the junior class was responsible for decorating and arranging everything. Also, no limos - parents drove unless you had a license. We did go out to a restaurant my junior year where due to wearing a white dress some drunk thought I was a bride!!!