Prom Dress, Prom Gown

Bright, spring colors and jewel tones will adorn the prom gowns scene, with prom trends for 2010 receiving some inspiration from nature. Subtle colors such as, rose pink, sage green, and deep lavender compose some of the season’s hottest dresses, while boisterous hues like lime, turquoise, fuchsia, and red add a splash of color to prom dress attire. Browns are also a popular color selection in prom trends, and range from light mocha to dark chocolate. How stunning would you look in a beaded bodice atop golden brown animal inspired prints

Prom Gowns, Prom Dress

Prom nights are one of the most important nights for a young girl. Its their chance to dress up, look their best and WOW everyone. Preparing for a prom night should be nothing but fun for young girls, they’ve got a perfect prom dress to find, have to know how their having their hair and makeup, finding a date and most importantly what shoes their going to wear

Prom Gown, Prom 2010, Prom Dresses

Your prom dress simply defines YOU. Or not so simply, we should say. The high school prom commemorates your final moments before young adulthood and there’s no better way to do it than in the most fabulous prom gown you can find.

Print Prom Gowns

Print prom dresses are one of the hottest trends for Prom 2010. The right print prom gown, consisting of beautiful, unique multi-tone patterns will have people talking about it throughout the night.

Prom Gowns, Prom Dresses, Prom Styles

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Prom Gowns, Prom Dresses, Prom Styles

Also you’ve got the choice of a strapless dress or one with straps. The strapless design is usually complimented with a beautiful sweetheart neckline which looks amazing and classical. The halter design on the other hand is usually found with a low plunge neckline, that added bit of wow factor still has class and femininity though.

Prom Dresses, Prom Accessories

Prom accessories come in two forms: ones that are seen and ones that are somewhat hidden. The visible ones include prom shoes, crowns, jewelry, and bags. These help you build that complete look you want. The hidden or secret prom accessories include things that cannot be outwardly seen on that special night, but can help you out tremendously. These items help you look great and feel wonderful throughout the night. Check out the items we have listed and see how they could work for you. Make sure that you try them before the special night. Give your body and feet some time to get used to them.

Prom Dresses, Prom Accessories

Prom accessories come in two forms: ones that are seen and ones that are somewhat hidden. The visible ones include prom shoes, crowns, jewelry, and bags. These help you build that complete look you want. The hidden or secret prom accessories include things that cannot be outwardly seen on that special night, but can help you out tremendously. These items help you look great and feel wonderful throughout the night. Check out the items we have listed and see how they could work for you. Make sure that you try them before the special night. Give your body and feet some time to get used to them.

Prom Dresses, Prom Gowns

Prom trends for 2010 also focus on length, with short prom dresses taking the dance floor by storm. Strapless and halter dresses are also favorite prom trends for 2010, and can work for almost any body type. A strapless dress tends to feature elegant shoulders and neckline, while also attracting attention to a girl’s facial features. The halter dress works well for plus-size teens, and also benefits those that are top heavy. Designers present these prom trends for 2010 in a couple of different ways. A baby doll length dress decorated with the simple elegance of a jewel-encrusted empire bodice; or the same thigh-high length in a shimmery fabric that ends in a party-girl hem. No matter what your personal style the prom trends for 2010 have something to suit your individual taste.

Prom Dress Attire, Prom Gowns on A Budget

Going to the prom can be an expensive decision, especially if your family is on a budget. I remember my little sister’s prom. She was so excited and wanted the perfect prom dress. Cheap was what we were looking for. She wanted her hair and nails done too. That can be costly unless you do it yourself or find a beauty school and hire a student. We actually hit our local dollar store for accessories and nail appliqués.

How To Plan A Prom, Prom Dress, Prom Gown

From Casey Lewis, for About.com

The theme of your decorations is one of the most influential decisions on how your prom plays out. With dazzling, impressive decs, the enthusiasm and excitement will be infectious. The best route is to order a variety of party decoration catalogs. There are infinite themes available, so access your options, pitch in a handful ideas, then have the entire committee vote on one collective prom motif. Want to know more? Read about the top five prom decoration themes.

Select invitations
Although students won't be basing their decision to attend prom on how tempting the invitations look, the formal invite is a very sentimental element of prom, especially for the departing senior class. The prom committee inspects hundreds of varieties, finally settling on the chosen one that is both unique and worth holding on to.

Choose the DJ or band
The music truly sets the mood for the entire evening of prom, and it's on the shoulders of the committee members to find the perfect soundtrack. A DJ specializing in '80s tunes may be the go-to guy for a certain clientele, but those tunes were in heavy rotation before we knew how to spell Timberlake. When it comes to getting the prom party started, look for DJs or bands that play a variety of Top 40 hits with a nice infusion of dance party classics.

Plan the menu
Whether you do an entire sit-down dinner or simply hors d'oeuvres, prom-goers like to get the bang for their buck. It's up to you to create a crowd-pleasing menu, so focus on foods that are widely-adored: chicken, good... tofu, bad; an assortment of cupcakes, good... German chocolate cake, bad.

Order party favors
After months of planning the perfect prom, you owe it to yourself - and your classmates - to have a festive party favor at the end of the night. The committee should put their heads together to find something memorable, celebratory, and above all budget-friendly. Most prom catalogs include favors that coordinate with the theme, but think outside the box and consider local goods (baked goods, candles, candy, et cetera).

Prom Dresses, Short Prom Gowns

Short prom dresses are becoming more of a popular choice especially for the younger girl. We have a huge range of short prom dress from pink to blue, strapless to halterneck and charmeuse to tulle, you will be spoilt for choice. Layers of tulle or chiffon, especially on the skirt, is a very popular and beautiful choice. The light material makes it easy to add more then just the one layer as you wont feel weighed down and it gives the dress that all important fluffy prom dress finish. Bubble hemmed short prom dresses are an amazing option. You wont find a floor length gown with a bubble hem so having a short dress with it is a unique decision. The gathered bottom skirt gives the feeling of a bubble hem and looks fabulous.

PROM DRESSES IN A DOWN ECONOMY

By: Alyssa Wagner

The walls are plastered with prom pictures and clippings from newspapers and fashion magazines. And at 10:15 at Lincoln High School in Stockton, California, dozens of fashion design students take their seats and go to town on sewing machines…

One girl alters a friend's jeans for a few extra bucks, and others are making hoodies. Stephanie Hernandez is one of six students designing her own prom dress. She's an outside-the-box fashionista who’s known in the class for pulling off inexpensive fashion feats, like the dress she designed for winter formal. “My parents told me they had a budget for my dress and all the dresses I wanted were really expensive,” so Hernadez decided “To make my own out of teen vogue magazines. And it was really cheap, it only cost me $10.”

Ten dollars for the packing tape she used to assemble magazine cut outs into a strapless cocktail dress. Now Stephanie Hernandez is splurging a bit for the prom by making a duct tape dress for 20 bucks! “I think it takes some brains and some creativity if you want to do stuff on your own,” Hernandez says “And I think when you spend less money and are more resourceful you're dress ends up being more unique and memorable. Than if you spend a lot of money and you tuck it behind your closet and never see it again.”

Girls have long been making their own prom dresses at Lincoln High School, but this year there are incentives other than just personal expression. Gail McAuley is the fashion design teacher at Lincoln High, and she says the economic downturn has significantly affected Stockton, “We have been number one in foreclosures, our jobless rate is rising rapidly. So, economic problems have hit us badly.”

McAuley says even using high quality fabrics, girls can still save money making their own prom dresses, “A short dress is usually about 2 yards. If it's a long dress, they may need up to 4 yards. So my guess is it's going to be more like 40 -50 dollars for a prom dress, which is still cheap.”

But according to McAuley, desperate local department stores are offering rock bottom sales – so low that thrifty students can sometimes find store bought prom dresses for as little as 30 or 40 dollars. But most students don't find dresses for anywhere near that price, because there's another concern that typically trumps cost…finding the "perfect" dress.

Across the country at Grady High School in Atlanta, Georgia, students are pushing to preserve the extravagance of prom, and voted against holding prom at the school to save money. Danè White says even with a deep recession, most girls would rather skimp on dinner and the limo than the prom dress, “I think dresses are a big deal for prom. It's about interacting and checking out what people have on. I feel like dresses are really important this year and people aren't going to slack off just because of the economy issue.

White works at Old Navy to earn extra money so she can pay for her prom dress. She studies fashion design at Grady High School's Urban Couture program. Student designers there have the super glam abilities to make their own prom dresses - they design entire lines of clothing their senior year. Vincent Martinez runs the fashion program where students have resisted making their own prom dresses, “What I find amazing is that the students that I teach, and I have predominantly female students, they are looking online for dresses. They’re ranging from 2-300 dollars up to even 600. That is no different than last year, the year before that, or the year before that.

Martinez calls the prom dress splurge an economic stimulus of its own. But he says it's more than that, “It is a rite of passage. Society tells our teenage girls, and this has been going on for generations, ‘You don't really make your own dress. You’re not supposed to. You’re supposed to go out and shop for one.’”

But don't tell that to Lincoln High's Stephanie Hernandez. She’s still feeling great about her winter formal dress, “I don't think I missed out. I actually though it was super cool to have something that you made and nobody else has it, and when other people complement on it, your just kinda like woo woo.”

Hernandez also expects to feel woo woo about her 20 dollar duct tape dress which she'll wear at prom on May 9th. She even hopes to make a little college cash by winning a competition from a duct tape manufacturer offering a $3,000 scholarship to the best duct tape MacGyver-ish prom outfit.

Prom Gowns, Prom Dresses, Satin Prom Gowns

Bright, spring colors and jewel tones will adorn the prom scene, with prom trends for 2010 receiving some inspiration from nature. Subtle colors such as, rose pink, sage green, and deep lavender compose some of the season’s hottest prom dresses, while boisterous hues like lime, turquoise, fuchsia, and red add a splash of color to prom attire. Browns are also a popular color selection in prom trends, and range from light mocha to dark chocolate. How stunning would you look in a beaded bodice atop golden brown animal inspired prints?

Prom Gowns, Prom Dresses

Gillian Laub for The New York Times
About now, high-school seniors everywhere slip into a glorious sort of limbo. Waiting out the final weeks of the school year, they begin rightfully to revel in the shared thrill of moving on. It is no different in south-central Georgia’s Montgomery County, made up of a few small towns set between fields of wire grass and sweet onion. The music is turned up. Homework languishes. The future looms large. But for the 54 students in the class of 2009 at Montgomery County High School, so, too, does the past. On May 1 — a balmy Friday evening — the white students held their senior prom. And the following night — a balmy Saturday — the black students had theirs.

The white students’ prom was held on May 1 at a community center in nearby Vidalia; the black students had theirs at the same place the following night.

Racially segregated proms have been held in Montgomery County — where about two-thirds of the population is white — almost every year since its schools were integrated in 1971. Such proms are, by many accounts, longstanding traditions in towns across the rural South, though in recent years a number of communities have successfully pushed for change. When the actor Morgan Freeman offered to pay for last year’s first-of-its-kind integrated prom at Charleston High School in Mississippi, his home state, the idea was quickly embraced by students — and rejected by a group of white parents, who held a competing “private” prom. (The effort is the subject of a documentary, “Prom Night in Mississippi,” which will be shown on HBO in July.) The senior proms held by Montgomery County High School students — referred to by many students as “the black-folks prom” and “the white-folks prom” — are organized outside school through student committees with the help of parents. All students are welcome at the black prom, though generally few if any white students show up. The white prom, students say, remains governed by a largely unspoken set of rules about who may come. Black members of the student council say they have asked school administrators about holding a single school-sponsored prom, but that, along with efforts to collaborate with white prom planners, has failed. According to Timothy Wiggs, the outgoing student council president and one of 21 black students graduating this year, “We just never get anywhere with it.” Principal Luke Smith says the school has no plans to sponsor a prom, noting that when it did so in 1995, attendance was poor.

Students of both races say that interracial friendships are common at Montgomery County High School. Black and white students also date one another, though often out of sight of judgmental parents. “Most of the students do want to have a prom together,” says Terra Fountain, a white 18-year-old who graduated from Montgomery County High School last year and is now living with her black boyfriend. “But it’s the white parents who say no. … They’re like, if you’re going with the black people, I’m not going to pay for it.”

“It’s awkward,” acknowledges JonPaul Edge, a senior who is white. “I have as many black friends as I do white friends. We do everything else together. We hang out. We play sports together. We go to class together. I don’t think anybody at our school is racist.” Trying to explain the continued existence of segregated proms, Edge falls back on the same reasoning offered by a number of white students and their parents. “It’s how it’s always been,” he says. “It’s just a tradition.”
Earlier this month, on the Friday night of the white prom, Kera Nobles, a senior who is black, and six of her black classmates drove over to the local community center where it was being held. Standing amid a crowd of about 80 parents, siblings and grandparents, they snapped pictures and whooped appreciatively as their white friends — blow-dried, boutonniered and glittering in a way that only high-school seniors can — did their “senior walk,” parading in elegant pairs into the prom. “We got stared at a little, being there,” said one black student, “but it wasn’t too bad.”

After the last couple were announced, after they watched the white people’s father-daughter dance and then, along with the other bystanders, were ushered by chaperones out the door, Kera and her friends piled into a nearby KFC to eat. Whatever elation they felt for their dressed-up classmates was quickly wearing off