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

[siberian khatru]

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."

[E@SHSU]

I think that the dress is ugly anyway and I wore a corset top to my snior prom.

As for the homosexual thing..I'm from TX, and as far as people are concerned here, they don't exist. Except in metropolitan areas...and Austin.

Don't get bent out of shape about my remark either, gay, straight, I don't really care.

[Saulbadguy]

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 suppose you may be correct. I live in Kansas. We are "the buckle" of the "bible belt."

[Chiefs Pantalones]

Wow. Heck, why even wear a dress? Why doesn't everyone just go naked?

[Chiefs Pantalones]

LOL

Bold prediction for next year:

Proms and all dances alike will be done in the nude...because teen magazine says so.

[Mosbonian]

Originally Posted by ENDelt260

I've only looked at the pic 10 or 20 times. Haven't made it to her face yet.

She looks a little melancholy.....

Head like a melon

Face like a collie...

mmaddog
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[Mosbonian]

Originally Posted by Clint in Wichita

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

I think you're simply paranoid.

On what do you base the assumption he is being paranoid? I can tell you in my daughter's school they pound tolerance into the kids....race, creed, religious, sexual orientation.....

mmaddog
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[RedNFeisty]

Originally Posted by mmaddog

On what do you base the assumption he is being paranoid? I can tell you in my daughter's school they pound tolerance into the kids....race, creed, religious, sexual orientation.....

mmaddog
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Wouldn't we be a better society if we practiced a little more tolerance?

[BIG_DADDY]

Originally Posted by RedNFeisty

Wouldn't we be a better society if we practiced a little more tolerance?

It's been taken WAY to far. I my godson's school they told the kids they may be gay. I don't send him to school to hear that shit, I send him to get an education. **** all teachers personal agendas come to think of it. Your there to educate and your living on our buck so quit with the other hoseshit already.

[Mosbonian]

Originally Posted by RedNFeisty

Wouldn't we be a better society if we practiced a little more tolerance?

I am all for tolerance...but it goes both ways don't you think? I have a problem trying to force feed a bunch of naive 8 and 9 y/o kids that they have to have tolerance for sexual orientation.....

What is really funny.....most kids don't need to be taught tolerance...they just want to have fun playing with their friends. It's when adults with agendas get in the way where suddenly children are forced to deal with adult issues.

mmaddog
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[Mosbonian]

So Red.....

Wold you let your daughter wear something like this to Prom?

mmaddog
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Originally Posted by mmaddog

I am all for tolerance...but it goes both ways don't you think? I have a problem trying to force feed a bunch of naive 8 and 9 y/o kids that they have to have tolerance for sexual orientation.....

What is really funny.....most kids don't need to be taught tolerance...they just want to have fun playing with their friends. It's when adults with agendas get in the way where suddenly children are forced to deal with adult issues.

mmaddog
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Outstanding.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by mmaddog

I am all for tolerance...but it goes both ways don't you think? I have a problem trying to force feed a bunch of naive 8 and 9 y/o kids that they have to have tolerance for sexual orientation.....

So we're too intolerant about tolerance?

[Mosbonian]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

So we're too intolerant about tolerance?

All right now...don't try to confuse me...I haven't had my medication today.

mmaddog
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[RedNFeisty]

Originally Posted by mmaddog

I am all for tolerance...but it goes both ways don't you think? I have a problem trying to force feed a bunch of naive 8 and 9 y/o kids that they have to have tolerance for sexual orientation.....

What is really funny.....most kids don't need to be taught tolerance...they just want to have fun playing with their friends. It's when adults with agendas get in the way where suddenly children are forced to deal with adult issues.

mmaddog
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I don't think that it should be shoved the the throats of young children, but for high school, yes, I think that teenagers should be taught tolerance. Parents are to judgmental to teach their children. My son is almost four and the only reason he does not like a person is because they are stupid. I am trying to teach him that he does not need to like the person, but he does have to be civil. I also think that there is no problem with condoms being given out at high schools, you know the kids are going to bang anyway. I have only known of a few people that were virgins when they got married. Absence is not something most teenagers practice.

In addition, sexual orientation is not a reason to be uncivil to a person, you should be tolerant, whether you believe they are going to hell or not.

To answer your question, Hell No, I wouldn't let my daughter wear that. I don't think my daughter would wish to wear that, if I had one. She would be well aware that men only want one thing most of the time and it isn't her brains!!

[RedNFeisty]

Originally Posted by BIG_DADDY

It's been taken WAY to far. I my godson's school they told the kids they may be gay. I don't send him to school to hear that shit, I send him to get an education. **** all teachers personal agendas come to think of it. Your there to educate and your living on our buck so quit with the other hoseshit already.

I would be having a chat with a teacher at that point. I do agree that is not right.