Are You Brave Enough to Share Your Prom Photos?

[scotrace]

Finally found one. I think I was channeling Lincoln. Which is no way to get lucky on Prom Night.

Edit to add: My gosh , mom's decor! Eek! I had forgotten that there was little ceramics class stuff all over the house! lol lol

 

[Hemingway Jones]

The tux is nice!

 

[scotrace]

It was.

 

[Alex Oviatt]

I am brave enough--just hopeless figuring out how to scan and then post old photos. Mine--despite being in 1980 was actually pretty retro--it was on the Queen Mary. I wore a white DJ and my date--bucking the trend towards pastel Qiana and wore a whispy white silk 20s style dress with a handkerchief hem from a store called Gene Burton--very big in its day! Ended up in Beverly Hills for breakfast at dawn waiting for a diner to open, walking down Rodeo Drive when it was home to stores like Ted Lapidus, Yves St. Tropez and Giorgio. Great fun.

 

[katiesparkles]

Lol, great photos everyone!

I'd share mine but I didn't finish all 13 grades back in Germany, so I never had a prom. Still bummed, but hey.. whatever.

 

[chanteuseCarey]

never went to the prom, I was a real wallflower in HS.

 

[1961MJS]

never went to the prom, I was a real wallflower in HS.

Hi

I wasn't so much a wall flower, but I didn't attend Senior year because I slept thought it. I lived within spitting distance of the high school gym, and hadn't slept through a prom since the age of 4 due to the bass from the band. I had college entrance exams from 8 AM until 6 PM on our prom day, I got home about 8 PM and I was asleep minutes later.

Later

 

[MikeBravo]

never went to the prom, I was a real wallflower in HS.

I had to laugh. In your avatar, you're leaning against a wall

 

[Mr. Hallack]

I'm one of the folks who never bothered with the prom. In fact it never even crossed my mind to go to the prom. Me and buddy Bob were too cool to go to the prom.

Though back in high school days I couldn't get a gal to look at me, so no hopes for any kind of date!!

 

[fortworthgal]

I can't believe I haven't posted in here yet!

Here's one from my junior prom in 1992, I was 16. This was shortly after a particularly bad "Sun-In" incident and attempts to return my hair to a more natural color before the prom. Like my bangs? :lol: My dress was black cotton eyelet with a big full skirt, very saloon girl chic. We bought it from a thrift store, and I borrowed jewelry from my aunt.

It was aboard an old-style paddle riverboat on a local lake, thus the "captain's wheelhouse" setting. My date was just a friend from another school, but man, could he dance. I was the envy of all the girls with their "too cool to dance" dates. :lol:

I went to 2 more proms, but I don't have any of those photos in digital format (mercifully).

 

[AmateisGal]

Was digging through some old stuff last night and came across my prom photos. Ha!

Junior prom, 1992. The dress was made by a local seamstress, and I still have it. Maybe my daughter can wear it in a few years...

 

[DameWhoDrinks]

I have been waiting and waiting for prom so I can bump this thread.
I'm in black(ive posted in hairdos, show us your best, and vintage prom. I'm very excited)

 

[Dragon Soldier]

NI was prom-less in my day (although I believe it happens now). Anyway, there are very few photos of me from that era as I preferred (as I still do) to be behind the camera. However, this was me at about 18/19 with the then Mrs. DS.

 

[Atticus Finch]

I attended my junior and senior proms, but I have no idea where the prom photos may be. Truthfully, I don't remember seeing any. Perhaps they were sent to my girlfriend's house and she hid them?

Anyhow, this is the best I can do. This photo was taken at our graduation...June, 1974...only a few weeks after my senior prom. Yes, East Carteret High was a classy place to attend school. Please notice the mismatched, naked concrete block steps leading from the stage. Did OSHA exist in 1974?

AF

 

[Seraph1227]

in a word...no, but nice shoes AF

 

[MikeBravo]

Careful what you wish for



About 1977-8. Brown was in that year

 

[Bugguy]

No prom pics… my date was a minister's daughter and I had to get her home by 10:00. The camera guy hadn't set up yet. I guess my reputation might have been a wee bit sketchy.

 

[Big Man]

I can't believe I'm posting this old photo. :eeek:

It was 1975, and I came back from college to go to my girlfriend's high school prom. I should have stayed at college. What else can I say ... [huh]

 

[kyboots]

I broke up with the girl I took to junior and senior prom and never saw the photos again. Atticus I think the young lady's white gloves are still a nice touch.

 

[Edward]

Ah, Luckily prom night is a relatively new import concept over here. My daughter just had hers, Year book and all. Too many kids brought up on US TV proms, pumpkins...The brainwashed British kid's will be asking to celebrate thanksgiving and 4th July next.

Ha... with no political commentary intended one way or the other, I invite you to be amused by the irony of my local town council back in the old country, never less than Unionist dominated, celebrating American Independence Fortnight every year to this day.... lol (The place is where Andrew Jackson hails from originally; they still have the cottage there that he was supposedly born in, done up as a museum, hence the American link.)

Being Irish (we invented Samhain, you know....) I'm always incensed when Halloween rolls around and it's full of pumpkins. The original Jack O'Lantern was a turnip (a real turnip, not the little white turnips, the real, big yellow and purple ones that for some reason the English insist on calling "swedes"). When the Irish, and the Scots, settled in the New World, taking their Samhain/Halloween tradition with them, they adopted the pumpkin for lack of an available turnip. Sadly, the pumpkin has taken over since the folk festival became a holiday and was sold back to us as a commercial event. I was lucky enough to grow up in the last generation for whom it really was a DIY folk festival, with little or none of the commercialism now attached to it.

I've a pic the night I first saw the Sex Pistols, Is that dressing formal?

Sharp! When was that? The 1996 reformation tour Belfast date was pulled (inside story had it that they simply didn't sell enough tickets - crying shame. The Pistols, Iggy and The Amps.... what a bill), so I had to wait until 2002 to see them (and twice again in 2007). Unbeatable live, and matched by very few. Is that an original Seditionaries shirt? I have a couple of cheaper licensed repros by Seditionaries London, made in recent years, but the originals in tidy condition sell for £800 plus these days. Not often that I wear mine, but such a cracking piece of design.

Never went to a prom, our band played at proms though. I bet there are some pics in yearbooks at different schools of us onstage. We did not dress up either, it was the 60's.

Heh, I remember being slightly put out that the band at my school formal didn't bother themselves to wear more than a stained AC/DC -shirt and a pair of ratty old jeans....

They evicted me because I wouldn't go to Phys Ed, so they sent me to a school where there was no Phys Ed, but I could get a whole credit for writing a book report!

A school with no games? Heaven! Just about every single negative memory I have of school is squarely associated with the games department. (Not least how ratty some of our textbooks were, as the school couldn't afford to replace them, yet they had the funds forf a gym, equipment, and two full-time members of staff....).

NI was prom-less in my day (although I believe it happens now). Anyway, there are very few photos of me from that era as I preferred (as I still do) to be behind the camera. However, this was me at about 18/19 with the then Mrs. DS.

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Nice! Is that the KFC at the end of Shaftesbury Square? I think it's still there... Back in the early 90s in Carrickfergus, they had a long standing tradition of a black tie dinner dance, known colloquially as "the formal", which we had in the Spring of our last year, between A level mocks and the Real Thing. I went under extreme sufference; as a young, punk rock firebrand it was far too much like bourgeousie decadence for my liking, but I didn't quite have the gumption to stand up enough to my folks to point blank refuse to go. They wanted me to have the experience of a more formal occasion for the future. They're just lucky that Bob Dylan gig turned out to be the night before, or I'd have never allowed myself to be cajoled into going. I refused point blank the idea of taking anyone with me. A lot of the guys, the majority, I think, asked girls to go with them for the sake of going with someone (very few of them were actually couples). Angry young me, naturally, snarled at that idea in contempt. The night itself was actually kinda fun.... I almost got thumped, but avoided it (told a drunk classmate there was no point him making plans for the next day because he was too drunk to remember them. The twit.), did the Time Warp for the very first (and certainly not the last) time, and we all ended up back in the maths teacher's house (where he made alcohol available (most of us were not long eighteen...), shrugged off his wife's 'suggestion' that he turn down the volume at which he was playing the Pogues at four in the morning, and pinched the politics teacher's rear.... likely all firing offences nowadays, but in 1993...). First train home the next morning, still in black tie.... By the time I went to black tie events at university (towards the end of my courses, 1997 & 1998), it was an excuse to dress up. Still went in a mixed gang, though - didn't see the point in taking a date I wasn't already involved with.

Photos do exist.... somewhere..... Oh! Here's one of me at the Queen's University of Belfast Church of Ireland Centre formal in 1997:

March 1997, that was - I'd have been all of twenty-two at the time. The dj and trousers on that occasion were hired (not til 1998 did I own my own black tie rig). Classic shawl collar, SB. Overall quite a good look, though I regret the pre-tied bow (at the time I didn't care for the look of an undone bow, and reasoned that I'd never tie one as well as a pre-tie, so what was the point? Yeah...), and the waistcoat (a Next two-=pocket model, in black moleskin) was obviously a daywear affair. Could have been so much worse, though: I almost substituted a leather blazer for the dj on a whim, but decided it would look "too much like security" (yeah... a long-haired, speccy kid who made joey Ramone look built like the proverbial.... ). I'll have to see if I can turn up the other photos.... Anything pre-October 2003 for me is on print, not digital. I'll add them when they turn up...

Oh.... the glass is Bushmills' label Black Bush, over ice. No mixer. Some of my tastes were already pretty well formed back then!