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They've been going on for at least 20 years now, gramps.
Limousines used to be required, but about 10 years ago you could turn up in anything with a badge or a convertible. I was driver for my brother in my Alfa Romeo GT.
£600 is a lot for a dress for one night. Maybe you can find something she can use again on a similar occasion?
Limousines used to be required, but about 10 years ago you could turn up in anything with a badge or a convertible. I was driver for my brother in my Alfa Romeo GT.
£600 is a lot for a dress for one night. Maybe you can find something she can use again on a similar occasion?
PeteinSQ said:
When did these become a thing over here? I'm 40 and went to an all boys boarding school so funnily enough we never had one. I thought they were an American thing, but I know that they've been around for at least ten years.
My son just started high school so I'm dreading this in five years. At least he won't need a dress (well it will be 2026 so who knows...).
I’m going with 1989. That was 5th year for me and we were the first year to have a ‘prom’ no doubt inspired by the a storyline in Grange Hill that year! (Ginger-haired, entrepreneur Gonch decides to organise an American style prom). The school had one every year after that. Whether this was the same in other parts of the country, who knows. Anyway it was pretty tame by today’s standards. Held in the school hall, no fancy cars. My son just started high school so I'm dreading this in five years. At least he won't need a dress (well it will be 2026 so who knows...).
Gargamel said:
All these old boys pretending they never had an end of year school disco at the end of the year.
Call it a prom if you like we all had them. I guess a few miseries on here went to all boys private schools…
Granted I left school in the early eighties, but we used to have a school disco on a regular cycle through my time at senior school. I think it was every 5 weeks, as it rotated round each of the five school years. Call it a prom if you like we all had them. I guess a few miseries on here went to all boys private schools…
I do remember the Christmas discos (it was an excuse to get a Christmas kiss off the girl you fancied, if you were lucky). However, I can't for the life of me remember the 'last' 5th year disco I went to and I would have gone to them all I'm sure as there wasn't much else going on in our town back then.
Therefore as far as I can recall no one wore anything special above whatever they'd worn to previous discos; it didn't stand out as anything special or significant, certainly not in the way that it has since developed since. I do remember our eldest having her prom, but it wasn't £600 (or equivalent) for a dress, though maybe a good chunk of that for the fake tan: We have photos somewhere of about a dozen of her friends and her all in various shades of orange.
By the time our youngest left school it was getting a bit silly from what we'd heard from other parents, but he had no interest in going anyway, so we were spared.It'll be interesting to see where it's at by the time our Grand daughter has her prom...
Vasco said:
Another Yank idea, like Halloween.
I don't want to be boring (but I am, I can't help it)...... BUT Halloween came from Celts........... Not USA... I presume you mean the over the top celebrations with parties etc but still.....AS to the OP, no way in hell would I be spending £600 on a dress for "prom"... Frankly £300 is madness to me, but there we go.
I like setting a nice budget.
I'd be going down the route of £500 tops (all in, dress, car, spray tan, hair, make up etc.) and then whatever is remaining you'll double towards a car or driving lessons etc.
That way, she can choose to piss it up the wall for a single night, or she can have double back to much more important things!
I'm a tight arse, I'd be calling £100 on rental etc. then getting £800 back for more important stuff!!
Don't make it easy!
I'd be going down the route of £500 tops (all in, dress, car, spray tan, hair, make up etc.) and then whatever is remaining you'll double towards a car or driving lessons etc.
That way, she can choose to piss it up the wall for a single night, or she can have double back to much more important things!
I'm a tight arse, I'd be calling £100 on rental etc. then getting £800 back for more important stuff!!
Don't make it easy!
Vasco said:
Another Yank idea, like Halloween.
Tell your wife to find the money out of her usual housekeeping......
Agree definitely an american idea that has crashed to our shores, Halloween madness since Asda were purchased by Wal Mart, never had the complete areas of shops and foodstores dedicated to Halloween before then, yr 2000 I recall, Covid put both my teenagers proms off, however there were stories of kids spending fortunes of their parents cash on dresses, shoes, delivery limos etc.Tell your wife to find the money out of her usual housekeeping......
Gargamel said:
All these old boys pretending they never had an end of year school disco at the end of the year.
Call it a prom if you like we all had them. I guess a few miseries on here went to all boys private schools…
I guess I was one of those miseries that went to an all boys private school Call it a prom if you like we all had them. I guess a few miseries on here went to all boys private schools…
, however, I cannot recall going to an end of year disco at the end of what was then the 5th year (now year 11). There may have been one, however, it's now about 37 years since I left school and to be honest I couldn't wait to leave the bl
dy place as I hated it and the last thing I would have wanted to do was spend any spare evening time there at a disco with a bunch of lads. Another one of my parents fantastic decisions to put me in a school miles away from home and away from all my local friends.We had a "Leavers' do" at the end of sixth form in 1999.
Function room hired at the Earl of Doncaster hotel, the lads all wore suits and the lasses put on nice dresses from high street stores. Not ballgowns, more the sort of thing they'd wear to parties etc.
My school was in a bang average part of town but the sixth form attracted people from all over. I remember one group of lads from a wealthier area hired a limo and dinner suits. We found it ridiculously cringey, laughed at them and said "who the fk do you think you are?!" It appears that the pretentious tts were just ahead of their time.
As an aside: There was a very fit lass in that sixth form who had previously stood me up for a date. On the night of the leavers' do she was all over me but I was having none of it. She asked me to talk to her outside the function room so we sat on the stairs and she told me she may have left me hanging before but she wanted me to take her home that night. And that her knickers were now in her handbag. I said it was too late for that; she'd humiliated me as there were meant to be three couples going out and everyone else turned up so not only had she let me down but she made me look a fool in front of all of them. I still regret that. I should've banged her senseless. What the fk was I playing at?!
Function room hired at the Earl of Doncaster hotel, the lads all wore suits and the lasses put on nice dresses from high street stores. Not ballgowns, more the sort of thing they'd wear to parties etc.
My school was in a bang average part of town but the sixth form attracted people from all over. I remember one group of lads from a wealthier area hired a limo and dinner suits. We found it ridiculously cringey, laughed at them and said "who the f
k do you think you are?!" It appears that the pretentious tts were just ahead of their time.As an aside: There was a very fit lass in that sixth form who had previously stood me up for a date. On the night of the leavers' do she was all over me but I was having none of it. She asked me to talk to her outside the function room so we sat on the stairs and she told me she may have left me hanging before but she wanted me to take her home that night. And that her knickers were now in her handbag. I said it was too late for that; she'd humiliated me as there were meant to be three couples going out and everyone else turned up so not only had she let me down but she made me look a fool in front of all of them. I still regret that. I should've banged her senseless. What the f
k was I playing at?!Andy OH said:
Gargamel said:
All these old boys pretending they never had an end of year school disco at the end of the year.
Call it a prom if you like we all had them. I guess a few miseries on here went to all boys private schools…
I guess I was one of those miseries that went to an all boys private school Call it a prom if you like we all had them. I guess a few miseries on here went to all boys private schools…
, however, I cannot recall going to an end of year disco at the end of what was then the 5th year (now year 11). There may have been one, however, it's now about 37 years since I left school and to be honest I couldn't wait to leave the bldy place as I hated it and the last thing I would have wanted to do was spend any spare evening time there at a disco with a bunch of lads. Another one of my parents fantastic decisions to put me in a school miles away from home and away from all my local friends.
DRFC1879 said:
We had a "Leavers' do" at the end of sixth form in 1999.
Function room hired at the Earl of Doncaster hotel, the lads all wore suits and the lasses put on nice dresses from high street stores. Not ballgowns, more the sort of thing they'd wear to parties etc.
My school was in a bang average part of town but the sixth form attracted people from all over. I remember one group of lads from a wealthier area hired a limo and dinner suits. We found it ridiculously cringey, laughed at them and said "who the fk do you think you are?!" It appears that the pretentious tts were just ahead of their time.
As an aside: There was a very fit lass in that sixth form who had previously stood me up for a date. On the night of the leavers' do she was all over me but I was having none of it. She asked me to talk to her outside the function room so we sat on the stairs and she told me she may have left me hanging before but she wanted me to take her home that night. And that her knickers were now in her handbag. I said it was too late for that; she'd humiliated me as there were meant to be three couples going out and everyone else turned up so not only had she let me down but she made me look a fool in front of all of them. I still regret that. I should've banged her senseless. What the fk was I playing at?!
Curious, which school? I went to Hall Cross. Daughter at Hayfield.Function room hired at the Earl of Doncaster hotel, the lads all wore suits and the lasses put on nice dresses from high street stores. Not ballgowns, more the sort of thing they'd wear to parties etc.
My school was in a bang average part of town but the sixth form attracted people from all over. I remember one group of lads from a wealthier area hired a limo and dinner suits. We found it ridiculously cringey, laughed at them and said "who the f
k do you think you are?!" It appears that the pretentious tts were just ahead of their time.As an aside: There was a very fit lass in that sixth form who had previously stood me up for a date. On the night of the leavers' do she was all over me but I was having none of it. She asked me to talk to her outside the function room so we sat on the stairs and she told me she may have left me hanging before but she wanted me to take her home that night. And that her knickers were now in her handbag. I said it was too late for that; she'd humiliated me as there were meant to be three couples going out and everyone else turned up so not only had she let me down but she made me look a fool in front of all of them. I still regret that. I should've banged her senseless. What the f
k was I playing at?!
DRFC1879 said:
We had a "Leavers' do" at the end of sixth form in 1999.
Function room hired at the Earl of Doncaster hotel, the lads all wore suits and the lasses put on nice dresses from high street stores. Not ballgowns, more the sort of thing they'd wear to parties etc.
My school was in a bang average part of town but the sixth form attracted people from all over. I remember one group of lads from a wealthier area hired a limo and dinner suits. We found it ridiculously cringey, laughed at them and said "who the fk do you think you are?!" It appears that the pretentious tts were just ahead of their time.
As an aside: There was a very fit lass in that sixth form who had previously stood me up for a date. On the night of the leavers' do she was all over me but I was having none of it. She asked me to talk to her outside the function room so we sat on the stairs and she told me she may have left me hanging before but she wanted me to take her home that night. And that her knickers were now in her handbag. I said it was too late for that; she'd humiliated me as there were meant to be three couples going out and everyone else turned up so not only had she let me down but she made me look a fool in front of all of them. I still regret that. I should've banged her senseless. What the fk was I playing at?!
I bet they hated being laughed at by you while turning up in a limo and wearing dinner suits. Function room hired at the Earl of Doncaster hotel, the lads all wore suits and the lasses put on nice dresses from high street stores. Not ballgowns, more the sort of thing they'd wear to parties etc.
My school was in a bang average part of town but the sixth form attracted people from all over. I remember one group of lads from a wealthier area hired a limo and dinner suits. We found it ridiculously cringey, laughed at them and said "who the f
k do you think you are?!" It appears that the pretentious tts were just ahead of their time.As an aside: There was a very fit lass in that sixth form who had previously stood me up for a date. On the night of the leavers' do she was all over me but I was having none of it. She asked me to talk to her outside the function room so we sat on the stairs and she told me she may have left me hanging before but she wanted me to take her home that night. And that her knickers were now in her handbag. I said it was too late for that; she'd humiliated me as there were meant to be three couples going out and everyone else turned up so not only had she let me down but she made me look a fool in front of all of them. I still regret that. I should've banged her senseless. What the f
k was I playing at?!My niece's youngest daughter had a 'prom' at the end of year six when she left to go to secondary school; long frock, hair up, make up, the works.
I couldn't believe it and thought the photos were a joke but they weren't, let kids be kids FFs'S! However, if I told you where the school is, you probably wouldn't be surprised...
Re. prom transport; another niece, blonde and very attractive, was delivered to her prom in the bucket of a dumper truck and scored more 'glam points' than all those in rented limos.
I couldn't believe it and thought the photos were a joke but they weren't, let kids be kids FFs'S! However, if I told you where the school is, you probably wouldn't be surprised...
Re. prom transport; another niece, blonde and very attractive, was delivered to her prom in the bucket of a dumper truck and scored more 'glam points' than all those in rented limos.
DRFC1879 said:
We had a "Leavers' do" at the end of sixth form in 1999.
Function room hired at the Earl of Doncaster hotel, the lads all wore suits and the lasses put on nice dresses from high street stores. Not ballgowns, more the sort of thing they'd wear to parties etc.
My school was in a bang average part of town but the sixth form attracted people from all over. I remember one group of lads from a wealthier area hired a limo and dinner suits. We found it ridiculously cringey, laughed at them and said "who the fk do you think you are?!" It appears that the pretentious tts were just ahead of their time.
As an aside: There was a very fit lass in that sixth form who had previously stood me up for a date. On the night of the leavers' do she was all over me but I was having none of it. She asked me to talk to her outside the function room so we sat on the stairs and she told me she may have left me hanging before but she wanted me to take her home that night. And that her knickers were now in her handbag. I said it was too late for that; she'd humiliated me as there were meant to be three couples going out and everyone else turned up so not only had she let me down but she made me look a fool in front of all of them. I still regret that. I should've banged her senseless. What the fk was I playing at?!
I finished 6th form in ‘99 as well, our leaving do was black tie. Function room hired at the Earl of Doncaster hotel, the lads all wore suits and the lasses put on nice dresses from high street stores. Not ballgowns, more the sort of thing they'd wear to parties etc.
My school was in a bang average part of town but the sixth form attracted people from all over. I remember one group of lads from a wealthier area hired a limo and dinner suits. We found it ridiculously cringey, laughed at them and said "who the f
k do you think you are?!" It appears that the pretentious tts were just ahead of their time.As an aside: There was a very fit lass in that sixth form who had previously stood me up for a date. On the night of the leavers' do she was all over me but I was having none of it. She asked me to talk to her outside the function room so we sat on the stairs and she told me she may have left me hanging before but she wanted me to take her home that night. And that her knickers were now in her handbag. I said it was too late for that; she'd humiliated me as there were meant to be three couples going out and everyone else turned up so not only had she let me down but she made me look a fool in front of all of them. I still regret that. I should've banged her senseless. What the f
k was I playing at?!Riley Blue said:
My niece's youngest daughter had a 'prom' at the end of year six when she left to go to secondary school; long frock, hair up, make up, the works.
I couldn't believe it and thought the photos were a joke but they weren't, let kids be kids FFs'S! However, if I told you where the school is, you probably wouldn't be surprised...
Re. prom transport; another niece, blonde and very attractive, was delivered to her prom in the bucket of a dumper truck and scored more 'glam points' than all those in rented limos.
Yeah let kids be kids, kids hate dressing up.I couldn't believe it and thought the photos were a joke but they weren't, let kids be kids FFs'S! However, if I told you where the school is, you probably wouldn't be surprised...
Re. prom transport; another niece, blonde and very attractive, was delivered to her prom in the bucket of a dumper truck and scored more 'glam points' than all those in rented limos.
I used to DJ at some school proms years ago and some of the money that went in to it was crazy.
There was the usual "Disney" style prom dresses and makeup then there was the transport to the venue which ranged from old classics to American police cars, horse and carriage, Limos and Lamborghini's.
My best recommendations is to either rent a dress or pick something up second hand for a fraction of the price.
There was the usual "Disney" style prom dresses and makeup then there was the transport to the venue which ranged from old classics to American police cars, horse and carriage, Limos and Lamborghini's.
My best recommendations is to either rent a dress or pick something up second hand for a fraction of the price.
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