School Proms.

Sarnia

My DD had her youngest's dress professionally cleaned and donated it to a dress agency in a deprived area who hire clothes out at £10 a garment. It's a beautiful dress and deserves a few more Prom outings.

What a lovely thing to do, there are a few similar schemes in this area.

It was much cheaper when my girl was teen.
About £20 for a dress, and the rest just done at home.

Its a whole different ballgame now.

J52's summer party in a garden sounds much nicer.

Yes, that'd win hands down for me.

Magenta8

How do single sex schools arrange proms? Do public schools have them?

One of my DCs went last year and they were not allowed to bring partners from a different school.

Our sons went to public school.
They didn’t have a prom as such but there was a leavers ball, parents attended too.
After our eldest leavers ball he woke up in a laundry trolley, he never found his dinner jacket…..thank the Lord it was from a charity shop.
We had to go to the leavers mass the next day in school, they were all in a state😬.

Sago

Magenta8

How do single sex schools arrange proms? Do public schools have them?

One of my DCs went last year and they were not allowed to bring partners from a different school.

Our sons went to public school.
They didn’t have a prom as such but there was a leavers ball, parents attended too.
After our eldest leavers ball he woke up in a laundry trolley, he never found his dinner jacket…..thank the Lord it was from a charity shop.
We had to go to the leavers mass the next day in school, they were all in a state😬.

Those leavers balls were good!. I remember standing talking to some other parents when our son walked passed with a bottle of wine tucked under his arm. We pretended not to notice.😀

This thread has made me think of the Back to the Future film, was that the one with the 'Under the Sea' themed prom?

I doubt if I could have got my daughter into a dress if they had had proms in her day. She did wear a dress for her wedding - a lovely plain off white dress that cost a whole £90.

I've seen girls dressed in suits.
A bit like Annie Lennox in "sweet dreams"

Leavers Ball reminds me of dragging DD1 out of my low-slung sports car, whilst trying to protect her dignity, whilst Dads were lifting their daughters out of 4x4s. It was extremely short skirts in those days!