Ghetto Prom - Photo Album

precocious said:
Don't we all have an outfit or two that we look back and say...:doh:..."what was I thinking?" :secret: I had pink feather earrings......and a father.....
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I don't regret any of it! Pink-polka dot heart shaped glasses, Maddona boots (Desperately Seeking Susan), bra's and scarves in public-my goth-ish period...bike shorts! I had a blast! I'd do it again! But I was lucky I was taught boundries....these pic's are really more then just fashion faux pas...
 
cybermom said:
I'm with you Candybar...this brought tears to my eyes and not from laughing. These poor babies! Don't call them anything else because we all know they may be done on the outside, but they are not done growing up on the inside yet. And it doesn't look like they've had much help or at least qualified help. Prom night, special occasions-they're supposed to be about getting to live a little dreamy night-and this is what they dream?

The people who encourage them don't know any better, they probably even mean well. And the people who should know better, who could maybe find a way to encourage and lead them in a better direction....they're online making fun of them, passing around the pics and pointing fingers while laughing. "Ha! Ha! Bet you don't amount to much!" No wonder so many of these kids have such huge chips on their shoulders! We tell them they need to change, but they don't know how to change or why they should because to them they're living normal lives based on their enviroment.

I'd love to take each one of these girls out and give them the full makeover treatment. Show them how they can turn heads because they're pretty, and smart, and kind, and funny-how they don't have to be outlandish to get noticed and the difference between attention freely given and attention that's begged for.
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Cybermom....did you see the other thread of high school pictures? We goofed on them too......heck....we goofed on ourselves.....:doh:
 
cybermom said:
I don't regret any of it! Pink-polka dot heart shaped glasses, Maddona boots (Desperately Seeking Susan), bra's and scarves in public-my goth-ish period...bike shorts! I had a blast! I'd do it again! But I was lucky I was taught boundries....these pic's are really more then just fashion faux pas...
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So can I laugh at you or should I feel sorry for you because you didn't 'know better'? :convinced:

And should I assume that you 'didn't know better'? or that you didn't have a father? :noidea: and that's why you dressed 'that way'?

BTW if you look at the runway models in Haute Couture.....I can see a big resemblance in styles....:rofl:
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..they must be fatherless too....:ignore:
 
:rofl: sorry about that one pic being so big! :p
 
You can laugh at me Preco! I do all the time! Heck, if you can't laugh at yourself you got no business lauging at other people! But you have to admit there was something different between what we did and how far we pushed it. I don't think it's about not having a father figure...and then again for some that may be part of it. I'm just saying SOMETHING is not right in the lives of these kids that their boundries are off.

I totally agree they resemble the haute coutour stuff. I was just thinking that after I typed my post! I was thinking how especially the basetballish gear looked totally like something you'd see on a red-carpet- for some reason Mariah Carey sprung to mind. No idea why.

So, fatherless? society? what else? I guess it's a shame, there are too many choices to pinpoint where they get the idea that this is acceptable. And we can't really single these kids out because I've seen some crazy stuff in the so-called "good neighborhoods" too. I was amused looking at the pictures. I just wish I had a way to show them how to not be the person people are pointing and laughing at-not with. Of course who knows? I can hope they were doing it to be funny.
 
Did anyone think that perhaps it was a 'prom prank' and they just 'played up' a theme? That thought crossed my mind too and it wouldn't be the first time that has happened.....:noidea:
 
Not funny, sad. Especially after all the tax money spent on government schools, no one should be illiterate in this country.
 
Hey! Just cuz sum of us don't spell so good, don't mean we'ze illigitimate!
 
It's the 'public schools'.......the 'damage' that was done to my kids' education in the 3 years or so years that they spent in public schools is ridiculous.....:mad:...."no child left behind"....:rolleyes:....no, they're not leaving any of them 'behind'.....they're keeping them all behind......:mmph:

At least in NYC that's the way it is......that last curriculum was horrendous!:bitter:

Why, oh why, did you get me started.....:doh:

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Can we call them by a more appropriate name - Socialist Schools.
They are run by the government for the government's purposes, and millions of us (speaking editorially) send our kids there every day.
 
If it were a true democracy on educating my children, I'd have a voucher to use at the school of my choice....but no, I pay for public school and then pay again to educate my children in the school of my choice......:doh:
 
You're paying to educate(well, sort of) the future employees of your children.
 
cybermom said:
you have to admit there was something different between what we did and how far we pushed it.
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When I was a long-hair-hippie we used to wear and do things to "blow peoples minds". These kids are stuck with having to do more outrageous things than we did and we caused it. We, on the other hand, were doing more outrageous things than the generation before. What these pictures depict is a product of the times.

On the other hand, if someone has the time (I'm strapped) they might send the pics to snopes.com who will probably ferret out of it's for real or not.

Either way, even if it's a spoof it's still a real spoof.
 
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