Would you let your daughter wear this to the prom? (Barely SFW, I think) - Page 10

siberian khatru · 01-25-2005, 11:21 AM

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WOULD YOU LET YOUR DAUGHTER WEAR THIS PROM DRESS?

By DANICA LO

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."

**Rain Man** · 01-26-2005, 10:44 PM

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Originally Posted by memyselfI

and unlike this chick, she has the goods to wear the dress.

Meow.

**Rain Man** · 01-26-2005, 10:45 PM

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Originally Posted by JennyGump

DAMN! That girl has a butter face.

That's why she's wearing the dress. No one will look at her face.

beavis · 01-26-2005, 10:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Rain Man

That's why she's wearing the dress. No one will look at her face.

She has a face?

beavis · 01-26-2005, 10:48 PM

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Originally Posted by BIG_DADDY

I am sure her parents don't share your values.

Man, that just never gets old.

memyselfI · 01-27-2005, 07:20 AM

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Originally Posted by chiefs4me

You mean momma won't let her wear it,,

You are missing the point...

it's not about ME 'letting' her wear it at all. It's about her having the sense of worth and decency to not WANT to wear it. Obviously if parents have raised a daughter who would want to wear it at 16-18 then the parents have failed MISERABLY somewhere along the line.

Get back with me if you ever have a teenage or older daughter...until then you are speaking out your azz.

bkkcoh · 01-27-2005, 07:33 AM

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Originally Posted by memyselfI

You are missing the point...

it's not about ME 'letting' her wear it at all. It's about her having the sense of worth and decency to not WANT to wear it. Obviously if parents have raised a daughter who would want to wear it at 16-18 then the parents have failed MISERABLY somewhere along the line.

Get back with me if you ever have a teenage or older daughter...until then you are speaking out your azz.

Luckily my 13 y/o daughter, looks like 18 or so, doesn't like that kind of clothing. It sounds as if the wife and I have done a decent job raising her, atleast in that aspect of things.

bkkcoh · 01-27-2005, 07:35 AM

a dress like that just begs to have a wardrobe malfunction

memyselfI · 01-27-2005, 07:36 AM

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Originally Posted by bkkcoh

Luckily my 13 y/o daughter, looks like 18 or so, doesn't like that kind of clothing. It sounds as if the wife and I have done a decent job raising her, atleast in that aspect of things.

Sounds like you have

and today it's not easy because of people who insist 'times have changed' and things like this are 'fine.'

stevieray · 01-27-2005, 07:43 AM

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Originally Posted by memyselfI

Sounds like you have

and today it's not easy because of people who insist 'times have changed' and things like this are 'fine.'

coming from the woman that is bragigng about her teenage daughters "goods" on a football board.

I bet you don't have many female friends...err chicks.

Dr. Johnny Fever · 01-27-2005, 09:04 AM

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Originally Posted by siberian khatru

Couldn't they have at least gotten a hot chick to model that.........?

PastorMikH · 01-27-2005, 11:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Saulbadguy

All three of the statements you made are false.

Perhaps from you perspective derived from the school you attended they are false. However, one of the towns we lived in had a program that openly distrubuted condoms freely to any teenager that would ask. I had a friend of mine living in a town in central Missouri that actually pulled his kids out of the public schools because of their stance on sexual education, of which, abstinence was not discussed, but encoragement for homosexual relationships were a part - and his kid was in the 5th or 6th grade. And I've seen some of the outfits that schools permit kids to wear, and they aren't covered a whole lot better than the girl in the pic. Granted, these things may not occur in every school, but they are occuring in many of the schools.

PastorMikH · 01-27-2005, 11:17 AM

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Originally Posted by memyselfI

it's not about ME 'letting' her wear it at all. It's about her having the sense of worth and decency to not WANT to wear it. Obviously if parents have raised a daughter who would want to wear it at 16-18 then the parents have failed MISERABLY somewhere along the line.

My goodness, what is this world coming to? Something must be freezing over because I actually agree with Denise on this point.

memyselfI · 01-27-2005, 11:19 AM

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Originally Posted by PastorMikH

Perhaps from you perspective derived from the school you attended they are false. However, one of the towns we lived in had a program that openly distrubuted condoms freely to any teenager that would ask. I had a friend of mine living in a town in central Missouri that actually pulled his kids out of the public schools because of their stance on sexual education, of which, abstinence was not discussed, but encoragement for homosexual relationships were a part - and his kid was in the 5th or 6th grade. And I've seen some of the outfits that schools permit kids to wear, and they aren't covered a whole lot better than the girl in the pic. Granted, these things may not occur in every school, but they are occuring in many of the schools.

I've had kids in the public schools in KS for over 20 years and in no time were they ever encouraged to accept or reject homosexuality.

In addition, if anyone would have shown up in something from the Fredrick's catalog like this 15 year old is wearing then they would have been sent home, likely suspended, and I would not be surprised if SRS would have been called on the parents...

and rightly so.

chiefs4me · 01-27-2005, 11:54 AM

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Originally Posted by memyselfI

You are missing the point...

it's not about ME 'letting' her wear it at all. It's about her having the sense of worth and decency to not WANT to wear it. Obviously if parents have raised a daughter who would want to wear it at 16-18 then the parents have failed MISERABLY somewhere along the line.

Get back with me if you ever have a teenage or older daughter...until then you are speaking out your azz.

Clint in Wichita · 01-27-2005, 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by PastorMikH

Perhaps from you perspective derived from the school you attended they are false. However, one of the towns we lived in had a program that openly distrubuted condoms freely to any teenager that would ask. I had a friend of mine living in a town in central Missouri that actually pulled his kids out of the public schools because of their stance on sexual education, of which, abstinence was not discussed, but encoragement for homosexual relationships were a part - and his kid was in the 5th or 6th grade. And I've seen some of the outfits that schools permit kids to wear, and they aren't covered a whole lot better than the girl in the pic. Granted, these things may not occur in every school, but they are occuring in many of the schools.

I think it's funny when people whine about schools giving out condoms. For 50 cents and a trip to a gas station restroom, you can get a condom, anyway.

One more thing: Why would a school encourage gay relationships? What do they get out of it?

I think you're simply paranoid.

01-25-2005, 11:21 AM
siberian khatru 21st Century Schizoid Fan Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: The Gates of Delirium Casino cash: $-1465050	Would you let your daughter wear this to the prom? (Barely SFW, I think) http://www.nypost.com/style/39213.htm WOULD YOU LET YOUR DAUGHTER WEAR THIS PROM DRESS? By DANICA LO 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."
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