https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-these-prom-dress-photos Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Thu, 16 Apr 2026 11:10:04 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-these-prom-dress-photos#post-865907 Sun, 03 Mar 2013 04:59:57 +0000 Aziraphale 865907@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ah, the 80s.</p> <p>Flipping through those pictures, I repeatedly thanked my lucky stars that I graduated in 1990 -- just in time to not look like<em> that</em> for prom. At least, my hair didn't look like that. It was long, wavy, and gloriously product-free. </p> <p>My dress did have poufy sleeves though. We were only barely past the 80s.</p> <p>I think I enjoyed looking at the boys as much as the girls. I think the mullet might be top contender for Worst Male Hairstyle in History. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-these-prom-dress-photos#post-865893 Sun, 03 Mar 2013 04:21:21 +0000 Mary Beth (formerly LBD) 865893@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh, and, for the record, Alaskagirl, I'd have been THRILLED to wear any of those lace-and-poly-satin confections, in the years 1983-1988... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-these-prom-dress-photos#post-865892 Sun, 03 Mar 2013 04:20:16 +0000 Mary Beth (formerly LBD) 865892@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh dear God. Going through the first twenty, I feel reasonably certain I went to high school with at least ten of the pictures. </p> <p>I also realize that at any time, I can get into my car, and travel back in time, to the small Florida town where I went to high school. My parents still live there, and I refer to it as The Land 1986 Forgot, because you can walk into any establishment in town, and the people look *exactly*. like. the. prom. pictures. Total mulletude! Rock on! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-these-prom-dress-photos#post-865889 Sun, 03 Mar 2013 04:11:02 +0000 Nadya 865889@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Did you notice the one girl in a tux? There was a girl a year or two ahead of me (so class of 79 or 80) who wore a tux to our winter formal and we all thought she was the coolest, most sophisticated person EVER. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-these-prom-dress-photos#post-865864 Sun, 03 Mar 2013 03:29:41 +0000 Janet 865864@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh my. </p> <p>Now I feel a little better about my prom pictures. </p> <p>You can see the shift from 70s style to 80s right before your eyes! 1982 (junior prom, this was my bridesmaid dress from my sister's wedding) and 1983, complete with mullet haircut before anyone else had it. LOL </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-these-prom-dress-photos#post-865856 Sun, 03 Mar 2013 03:07:53 +0000 Anonymous 865856@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I was in high school in the mid 90s and wore the same dress two years in a row. But it was white, like a freaking wedding dress. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-these-prom-dress-photos#post-865852 Sun, 03 Mar 2013 03:03:06 +0000 Echo 865852@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>LOVE these! And although I wasn't married until 1997, the mullet DH had at the time could rival any of these '80's photos. I'm not sure he realized that those pictures would be forever... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-these-prom-dress-photos#post-865819 Sun, 03 Mar 2013 02:28:57 +0000 Katiepea 865819@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>&lt;Snortle!&gt; YES! These dresses DO remind me of our formal (prom) and I have to say that I could see myself in my 1988 dress fitting right in amongst these photos.</p> <p>The thing that makes me chuckle the most is I can recall my friends and I going into the "formal" dress shops, trying on all these types of dresses and thinking we looked *so* gorgeous and *so* sophisticated. </p> <p>Even funnier, were the debates surrounding the "perfect" dress choice: "What do you think guys? Do I look better in the electric blue puffy sleeved ruched dress with extra lace and bedazzling? Or should I be daring and go with the sweetheart black strapless with puffy skirt and fancy polka-dot chiffon skirt overlay and matching biiiigggg bow ? " :-)</p> <p>Oh, the memories.</p> <p>KP</p> <p>PS: One of these two dresses featured in above mythical conversation is what I actually wore to my formal. The other, my best friend. Which was which? I'll leave it to your imagination... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-these-prom-dress-photos#post-865813 Sun, 03 Mar 2013 02:23:42 +0000 Carla 865813@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Class of '78. 17 years old, just finished a shift at McDonald's, had a shower, blow dried my hair and put the dress on when my date arrived with white roses. Peach silk linen-- my mother was quite fastidious. He had brown hair, bowl cut and light brown summer weight wool suit. Better than what most guys wore. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-these-prom-dress-photos#post-865792 Sun, 03 Mar 2013 01:59:06 +0000 annagybe 865792@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I didn't go to prom. My senior in my class I found out there was a guy in my that didn't have a date. I screwed up all my 17 year old courage and asked him out. He said no.<br /> I hung out with a friend, made homemade lasagna including the sauce from scratch and watched Casablanca.<br /> I really wanted to run into him at my 20 year reunion but he wasn't there. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-these-prom-dress-photos#post-865699 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 23:37:40 +0000 Ingunn 865699@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hahaha, now I'm pretty relieved that we don't have a prom tradition in Norway:) Oh, wait, we have something similar. I think I have a photo of me in a similar 80's high hair and cobalt dress somewhere. That I had made myself. Ugh. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-these-prom-dress-photos#post-865603 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 22:05:59 +0000 Thistle 865603@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Those prom pictures I had to have, I wouldn't confess to most of them! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-these-prom-dress-photos#post-865591 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 21:58:03 +0000 Caro in Oz 865591@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think I must be a complete optimist, I want his boots in #6:) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-these-prom-dress-photos#post-865581 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 21:50:04 +0000 ironkurtin 865581@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ah the "Pretty in Pink" years. Nostalgia... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-these-prom-dress-photos#post-865548 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 20:49:10 +0000 Ornella 865548@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>But 8 is great, isn't it? Reverse polka dot action AND patterned hose? Serious contender for what's remotely wearable nowadays.</p> <p>Btw, I love the guy's Cons in 29. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-these-prom-dress-photos#post-865540 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 20:42:00 +0000 bj1111 865540@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>ok...kinda glad i was a geek and competing in a science fair on prom night. </p> <p>ps...i did have BIG hair. the ozone hole over illinois is mine. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-these-prom-dress-photos#post-865538 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 20:41:10 +0000 Sara L. 865538@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh, the hair! And that slit on Michelle Obama's dress! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-these-prom-dress-photos#post-865532 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 20:37:54 +0000 catgirl 865532@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I am almost certain #23 is my husband. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-these-prom-dress-photos#post-865528 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 20:35:31 +0000 Suz 865528@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>#4 looks seriously like a bridesmaid dress I had to wear. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-these-prom-dress-photos#post-865507 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 20:22:13 +0000 Transcona Shannon 865507@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Never mind the dresses - check out the hair!!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-these-prom-dress-photos#post-865498 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 20:11:08 +0000 Mander 865498@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Haha, I think I went to high school with all of these people, even though I graduated in the 90s, except the guys in top hats. Nobody in my high school was that suave. Oh, and Ru Paul -- nobody in my high school was that good of a dancer!</p> <p>I went to both junior and senior prom, and while neither dress was all that great (one was purple lace, the other black satin with a sort of brocade pattern that my aunt made for me) they weren't as bad as these! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-these-prom-dress-photos#post-865475 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 19:51:36 +0000 Claudia 865475@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Never mind the prom. MUCH worse, I got married in the '80s. Now all you young'uns have some idea of the pouffy atrocity that was my wedding gown. :-(</p> <p>P.S. I also had the big hair. Permed. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-these-prom-dress-photos#post-865474 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 19:46:37 +0000 Ornella 865474@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>ROFL!</p> <p>Let's vote for top 5 and do Picture Perfect Challenge, parody edition </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-these-prom-dress-photos#post-865472 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 19:44:40 +0000 catgirl 865472@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Does one of them look like yours? Now I'm glad I never went to prom!</p> <p><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/jackinthebox/35-ridiculous-80s-prom-photos" rel="nofollow">http://www.buzzfeed.com/jackin.....rom-photos</a> </p>