The Coalition of the Swilling

Prom gown? I thought it was a night gown, or at least part of a Halloween costume.

Actually, considering some of the prom gown styles I've seen, this one is surprisingly modest. I mean, you can't see her Brazilian wax job, and where's the areolas of her nipples are completely concealed.

Oops -- remove that stray "where's" that I left in there.

I agree with Andrea. This is tame from what I've seen.

My friend's son went to prom last year with a group of about six couples. One girl (not D's date) wore a Grecian-type gown with two strips of fabric that, had she sneezed or coughed, wouldn't have done their job covering her breasts. My friend looked over at her son at one point and said, "You wipe that smile right off your face RIGHT NOW."

Beyond the question of appropriateness for someone so young, Why are they using a fat model for a prom dress?

You better have forgotten your "/sarcasm" tag, Skyler, because if you think that young lady is "fat," you've lost your mind.

Fat for a model, to be sure. Kind of chunky around the waist.

Danger, Skyler! Danger!

That model is not fat. By the way, did the Ripple get Bingley this past weekend?

and the butt.

Well, I'll disagree with you, Skyler. Maybe "for a model," but not for an actual human being.

What I noticed first (no, HONEST) was her facial expression - "uhm, you want me to wear THAT?" It's not only immodest, it's ugly as hell. They look like they were made from the curtains my dear gramma hung in her house back in '78. That weird homemade bead thing on the tummy sure ain't helping.

This one is about normal for what I've seen the past couple of years.

http://shopshop.com/2009-Prom-Dresses-B8432.html

My father wouldn't have let me out of my ROOM wearing that, much less on a date.

Where's the prom, at an Ottoman seraglio?

…or a Bollywood music video.

Last I saw, models were human beings, and they reflect the standard of beauty, not the unattainable ideal of beauty. It would do young girls good to have a better role model than this chubby, especially at such a young age when they really have no excuse to be fat.

(I can hear the politically correct howls of protest already!)

"My father wouldn't have let me out of my ROOM wearing that..."

You know, Lisa, when Kcruella and I got to California in the summer of 1981, we thought ourselves VERY fashion forward until we hit Salt Creek Beach in Dana Point for the first time. What the girls WEREN'T wearing was enough to set us back on our heels, thinking the exact same thing...

And Skyler, you sexist pig stereotyper ~ she's a REAL girl in a Paris Hilton dress. (That's probably what caused your distressing outburst.)(At least I hope so...)

The truly, TRULY unfortunate thing will be the lah-ARGE girl who, instead of taking the hint from the model, will insist that's the dress for her.

The truly, truly, TRULY unfortunate thing will be at dinner, when all the pubescent pretties head en masse to the restaurant restroom, causing myriad injuries to the middle-aged men attempting desperately not to look like the ogling lechers they'd shiv in a heartbeat were it their own daughter prancing past.

Paris Hilton isn't a real girl? Wow. All that money spent on computer animation and they couldn't give her a better personality?

I'm getting old! That is a nightgown, worn by a mistress.

Give me Astair/Rogers era women, they knew how to dress .

And they weren't fat, either! :)

Skyler, no doubt you like your females anorexic, or maybe bulimic, but that's an attractive, healthy woman in that photo by the standards I grew up with. You've been watching waaaaaay too much FTV.

The fact that she's wearing a nightgown designed for virgin brides is beside the point. (Or maybe it is the point. I dunno; I just think she's HAWT.)

In any case, if I saw any woman wearing that while walking down the street, I'd make sure she wasn't sleep walking.

For crying out loud, the dress is available in plus sizes and she's a plus-size model--curvy and pretty. In a hootchie-Bollywood dress and standing in an unflattering posture.

I'm more horrified by the fact that the shoes appear to MATCH the DRESS perfectly.

Some of the local schools have actually passed dress codes for the prom. This one looks like they added netting to get past the no bare belly rule. Or we can just blame it on the Slumdog Millionaire style craze.

Okay, Kate P, I didn't realize it was a dress for plus sized (a euphemism for fat) women. I feel vindicated in my recognition of fat, but now I understand why they were using a fat woman as a model. I never said she wasn't pretty, just fat.

Kcruella, you might be onto something with that netting idea.

Skyler, according to model industry standards (and if you look at the dress link), plus size models can wear as low as a size 8. Kinda like how those annoying BMI tables can falsely label women who row for crew "overweight." In college, I had a tall, athletic dorm mate who borrowed belts from me and at the time I was a size 10-12.

Models, like people, can come in different sizes. And actually sell stuff.

My daughter will turn 9 in a couple of weeks. I guess it's time to break the news to her that high school proms are something that happen to other people...

"Fat for a model, to be sure. Kind of chunky around the waist."

I thought it was a pic of Meghan McCain, who, for the record, is smoking hot.

God skanks are so much fun! Think about it this way though, if you can see the brazilian wax, she's helping contain STDs on school grounds: You already know if she's got some things.

Course, this particular broad in that particular excuse for clothing is pretty much guaranteeing abstinance, with Sky on that'un. :P

OH. MY. GAWD!!!!! Check out what the TWELVE YEAR OLD is wearing!!

That dress for the 12 year old should be illegal! Crimeny.

oh, JEEZ! If I had a daughter, and she tried to wear that, I'd lock her in the basement, and fight off potential dates and child services with live ammo.

Is she trying out for the next "I Dream Of Jeannie" remake?

Upon further perusal, I notice the belly netting has an embroidered shmarock ~ begs the question is this a dress for those of Gaelic descent...

...or is she just hoping to get lucky?

Perfectly appropriate for a 15 yr old at a prom either way, right?