Yep, I used to be one of those people who said, “I regret nothing!” But ultimately, I realized that’s bullshit. I regret all kinds of things. And it’s heartening to know that even though people like to say, “Live your life without regrets,” to live is, in fact, to make a million choices, and some of those choices are stupid and bad. I may as well accord them a little regret so I’ll know I lived, screw-ups and all.
Over the last month, I’ve seen a bunch of prom photos online, and I had an epiphany: Prom exists so we can be sure we’ll have something to regret on our deathbeds: BAD FASHION. Because even though as years go by, you’ll see your youth recycle on the pages of Vogue, Vanity Fair, or Marie Claire, that doesn’t mean you were right. It just means you’re getting old.
So do not mock my prom fashion. You know yours was as bad. And if you’re young, give yourself a couple of decades. You’ll cringe one day.
Happy birthday on May 29 to my date for both my junior and senior proms.
The good old days, when girls covered everything up when they went to the prom.
Even in the two decades before my prom, they showed more skin than I’m showing. I was never really a glittering, glamorous fashionista.
The only reason I could possibly mock is because I never went to prom… which I suppose opens me up to mockery of a different kind. (Suffice it to say I was not even remotely popular.)
Maybe we can have prom at the next S&S. All it requires is regrettable fashion, lots of throwing up, and somebody ending up pregnant or in jail–really, just a typical NOLA weekend.
With those photos out there, you shouldn’t mock sister wives.
Indeed, I shouldn’t mock ANYone. I have lifelong bad fashion.
Prom dresses are definitely prettier these days. Mine was hideous! And we called it a formal not a prom. 🙂
But you know in twenty years when clothes are made from aluminum foil or something, today’s girls will also be saying, “My dress was hideous!” There’s comfort in that. =)
We don’t have proms in this country, at least we didn’t when I was at school.
Any kind of formal dances that were just for the older students?
Not when I was at school. I believe they’ve become relatively common in recent years. I’m so old…
Hardly.