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."

[memyselfI]

Originally Posted by the Talking Can

you could loan her a burka...

Sure, if I owned one. In all honesty, I'd rather a 16-18 year old wear one of those than that dress...

and it's not a religious based objection.

[htismaqe]

Right on cue.

[BIG_DADDY]

Originally Posted by memyselfI

No and I doubt that any school district would allow it unless it was covered with a couple layers of sweatshirts and an unbreakable lock...

Your still just angry cause the only guys that would pay any attention to you were driving to the prom on camels.

[chiefs4me]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

It's amazing to me how worked up our society gets about showing breasts. They're just breasts. Lovely, soft breasts. With perky nipples. That bounce up and down ever so slightly with each movement, rising and falling with each breath.

How true,,but why is it that every man acts as if it's the first set of breasts they have ever seen when they see them?

[Saulbadguy]

Originally Posted by PastorMikH

I doubt the schools are all that concerned, after all, they refuse to teach abstinence-based methods but make condoms readily available.

All three of the statements you made are false.

[Saulbadguy]

Originally Posted by stevieray

If your daughter wants to wear this to prom, you've failed in at least one aspect of being a parent.

Yeah. Fiscal responsibility. $495?!

[Katipan]

Originally Posted by PastorMikH

I doubt the schools are all that concerned, after all, they refuse to teach abstinence-based methods but make condoms readily available.

And yet you hop the pond where they have boobs and butts hanging out everywhere and their teenagers don't have nearly the pregnancy rate that ours do.

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by ENDelt260

Actually, she's a little late.

If only her school had been passing out condoms...

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by chiefs4me

How true,,but why is it that every man acts as if it's the first set of breasts they have ever seen when they see them?

Breasts are like snowflakes. No two pairs are alike, and it's fun to try to catch them on your tongue.

[Fire Me Boy!]

Originally Posted by chiefs4me

How true,,but why is it that every man acts as if it's the first set of breasts they have ever seen when they see them?

Because it's the first time we've ever seen that set of breasts.

[Bearcat]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Breasts are like snowflakes. No two pairs are alike, and it's fun to try to catch them on your tongue.

Originally Posted by Rain Man

It's amazing to me how worked up our society gets about showing breasts. They're just breasts. Lovely, soft breasts. With perky nipples. That bounce up and down ever so slightly with each movement, rising and falling with each breath.

So are you allowed within 500 feet of any high school in the metro Denver area?

[chiefs4me]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Breasts are like snowflakes. No two pairs are alike, and it's fun to try to catch them on your tongue.

AW,,that deserves some rep

[htismaqe]

Alas, it appears nobody got my intent at humor...

[Fire Me Boy!]

Originally Posted by htismaqe

Alas, it appears nobody got my intent at humor...

I think you meant to say, "Alas, it appears nobody got my attempt at humor..."

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by Fire Me Boy!

I think you meant to say, "Alas, it appears nobody got my attempt at humor..."

Thanks.

****er.