<Snortle!> 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.
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.
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 ? "
Oh, the memories.
KP
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...