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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 357636" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>We found a lovely formal dress for easy child in an op-shop for $10. She loved it, was happy with it. As for the limo - we looked around for a friend with a good looking car and asked for them to drive. Slipped them a slab of beer.</p><p></p><p>The problem with buying formal dresses (or prom dresses) - they all have similar designs, so you can see girls turn up wearing the same style dress as another girl, just in a different shade. and you can bet all the other girls are saying, "That dress in yellow looks so much better on HER, than the blue one on that girl over there." When I was looking for a dress to wear to easy child 2/difficult child 2's wedding, it was also formal time (aka prom time) and there were a lot of prom dresses I had to fight my way through, to find a good Mother of the Bride dress. I'd already done the op-shop thing for difficult child 1's wedding.</p><p></p><p>easy child 2/difficult child 2 didn't want the same sort of dress that other girls were wearing, so she found a dress pattern and bought the fabric. We made her dress and it was fabulous. A friend helped. It cost about half what a cheap shop-bought dress would have cost, and it was better quality. and nobody else had anything like it. She did her own hair and her own makeup (did the same thing for her wedding, too).</p><p></p><p>There are ways to keep costs down and still keep up appearances.</p><p></p><p>But you don't tell a girl she can't go to the prom at all. </p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 357636, member: 1991"] We found a lovely formal dress for easy child in an op-shop for $10. She loved it, was happy with it. As for the limo - we looked around for a friend with a good looking car and asked for them to drive. Slipped them a slab of beer. The problem with buying formal dresses (or prom dresses) - they all have similar designs, so you can see girls turn up wearing the same style dress as another girl, just in a different shade. and you can bet all the other girls are saying, "That dress in yellow looks so much better on HER, than the blue one on that girl over there." When I was looking for a dress to wear to easy child 2/difficult child 2's wedding, it was also formal time (aka prom time) and there were a lot of prom dresses I had to fight my way through, to find a good Mother of the Bride dress. I'd already done the op-shop thing for difficult child 1's wedding. easy child 2/difficult child 2 didn't want the same sort of dress that other girls were wearing, so she found a dress pattern and bought the fabric. We made her dress and it was fabulous. A friend helped. It cost about half what a cheap shop-bought dress would have cost, and it was better quality. and nobody else had anything like it. She did her own hair and her own makeup (did the same thing for her wedding, too). There are ways to keep costs down and still keep up appearances. But you don't tell a girl she can't go to the prom at all. Marg [/QUOTE]
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