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1950s ’til Today – Prom: The Ages and Stages

Prom 1980

Photo source: lobstar, treehorn on flickr (cc)

How I love the eighties! Prom was a time of huge bangs, coke-bottle curls, and poofy fluorescent dresses. The music was totally tubular from “Don’t Stop Believing” by Journey to “Almost Paradise” by Ann Wilson and Mike Reno.

Prom 1990

Photo source: Jeffery Putman, Cherie Priest on flickr (cc)

The nineties—a time of neon colors and Boys II Men—they danced until “The End of the Road.” The dresses got sluttier, the cummerbunds got flashier, and the teenagers got drunker.

Prom Today

Today’s prom-goers wear as little as possible and grind to Usher, Beyonce, and Gwen Stefani. They get sloppy-drunk, pregnant, and make bad decisions. I can’t wait until it’s time for my little one to head to the prom …

First published May 2008

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Wow. Either you don't know anything about young people today or you are just a troll in a writer's costume. Seriously, how disrespectful! You should be ashamed of yourself. And Divine Caroline, why would you allow your writer to disrespect today's teens like this.

"They get sloppy-drunk, pregnant, and make bad decisions." Funny part is this is all parental issues and not "prom" issues. Poor parenting. The other funny part is teen pregnancy is at an all time low, even lower than 40s/50s/60s. The only difference now is media coverage. It was taboo to talk about it back in those days.

The prom today picture of the girl with her breasts hanging out, that is discussting. If a mother actually let her daughter out like that should be ashamed of herself!! The school shouldn't allow it either...

Loving the dress from the '50s photo!

Actually, thats not what prom dresses look like now. I'm 17, I would know. If a girl showed up to prom wearing something like that, she would not be allowed in. Period. End of story. The schools have dress codes for prom, for example, you can not show your stomach like that nor a whole ton of cleavage. It just doesn't and i do not know of any girl who would buy an expensive prom ticket and then get a dress that she knows violates the dress code and will get her kicked out.