Fug Night

This dress is terrifying. And probably illegal.

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I have just picked myself up off the floor.

If I had come down the stairs in this for prom my father would have just shot me to save the family years of embarrassment and no adult in their right mind would blame him.

So, are those supposed to be breast, under there? Good thing she doesn't have large nipples.

how is it even possible for something that slutty to be worn at a school function? i mean, aren't there rules against dressing like a baby hooker at a school formal?

ps- the fug blog is the greatest thing ever.

Are you this hell-bent on becoming a stripper?

*becoming* a stripper? Oh, honey. If you wear this to your school prom, you ARE a stripper.

Sad thing is that I know there are girls arguing this with their parents right now. "But mom, maybe if he can see all of my breasts in the dress, then he won't try and get them out of it!"

Anyone got a give on the physics of that thing? It looks like if the model takes a breath, everyone gets a free show, it's like training for "Girls Gone Wild!"

That photo looks retouched, like they had to erase traces of nipple very carefully. And weren't that careful.

"Now do I get that 'A', Mr. Kazinsky?"

This definitely calls for a wrist corsage.

I NEED to know the website where I can see more dresses like this. I go to Whore High.

Jennhi, you're right. In the area where the straps cover (for lack of a better word) the breasts, the dress looks all blurry and bent out of shape. My *dog* is better with Photoshop's clone stamp tool.
I've been reading this blog for a while now (always hilarious, and congrats on the new site), but this is the first time I've actually been offended enough to need to comment. God. Not even THE HAT could do that.
Sweet Mother of God. Just...no.

This dress screams "Hey 40-year-old-pervs-with-screennames-like -LUV2CDDLE-who-buy-you-frozen-yogurt-and-a-CD-then-bring- you-back-to-their-mom's-Kia-for-some-hugging... I AM RIGHT HERE."

Is it just me, or does that girl look kind like Christina Aguilera??

Actually that dress screams "Hey all you Moms who want to live out your slutty dreams through your daughters, why not buy her something that you would've looked really hot in 25 years and 80 pounds ago!"

it looks like the teenage model has already had some scary surgery done--those look like uneven half-moon scars and some scary lopsided boobs. either that or....really bad photoshopping.

Actually, it is on backwards.

See this picture for reference:

http://www.cbslimited.com/pics/prom_xcite/376L.jpg

Granted, the front isn't that much better, but it is in fact on the model backwards in the picture you posted.

thank fucking god. why is the prom model wearing it backwards though?

...geeeeet the fuck out!!

I think this is a really great dress if we suddenly want thousands of 18 year old girls to go out and get drugged up and raped. Sa-weet. I remember when prom themes were "Enchanted Evening" or "Under the Sea" not "Show me dem titties"

This has to be the most unacceptable dress posted here to date. It... I just... This "dress" makes me want to weep.

There should be a rule in the school handbook: "A dress will not be allowed if it requires the use of double-sided tape."

It's not on backwards. Take a look at the dressmaker's site:
http://www.impressionbridal.com/CTGproms051.php?type=0&style=3

If only they made it in lime green. Sigh.

http://www.impressionbridal.com/images/prom2005/ad376L.jpg

This is a much better picture.

I don't think it is backwards... the black-dress model is sort of facing sideways while the red-dress model is (unfortunately) facing straight at us, so you can't see if those side-panelly things are there or not.

This dress makes me sad and frightened.

Good Lord. If I'd attempted to wear that to my prom--no, if I'd so much as joked about wearing that--I'd STILL be locked in my childhood bedroom today, ten years later. People would be asking about me, and my parents would be like, "Oh, she's still in her room, thank you very much. The prom dress?"

Whether worn correctly or backwards this is one ugly ass dress. The only prom for which would be acceptable is the one held by a stripper academy.

BTW - Does this hofit come with matching white stilletos or platform fetish sandals?

You could fill a whole website fugging on this company's dresses. Example #2:

http://www.impressionbridal.com/images/prom2005/ad410_410M.jpg

You could fill a whole website fugging on this company's dresses. Example #2:

http://www.impressionbridal.com/images/prom2005/ad410_410M.jpg

That is hideous and frightening, still not as ugly as this though http://www.uglydress.com/pregpromdres.html. Both bring a whole new level of Fug to the prom.

Well, I guess that answers the question of what to wear to show off the implants Mommy & Daddy got you for graduation. Good Lord...

I have chaperoned school dances before and I have to tell you, I've seen worse. The 15 or so full-figured girls busting out of the sides of teeny spaghetti halter tops at every high school dance effortlessly achieve the effect the designer was attempting here. At the coat check, I always ask these girls if they got ready at a friends' house (my real question being "how the f*@? did you get past your parents wearing THAT?"), but sometimes the proud mother is standing right behind the child saying, "No, I fixed her hair myself!" We make the scantily clad girls wear their coats (or their dates' jackets--some know they'll get into trouble and don't wear a coat on purpose) into the gym, but they toss 'em as soon as they hit the dance floor. I think most of the boys are actually more frightened than turned on by the skin display they are getting from their dates--in a dress like that, there's no place for them to put their hands during a slow dance that won't get them into trouble with the chaperones (I betcha $10 it's got a butt-crack grazing low-cut back to match). Sending them home to change is usually more trouble than policing them at the dance. A scantily clad 15-year-old girl is relatively safer at the dance versus wandering around the city with her hormone-crazed date and friends (which is what they do instead of going home to change). But any girl who shows up wearing something like the abomination pictured above is definitely getting sent home.

I saw this dress somewhere else yesterday, and was trying to describe it to some girls in my class [I'm in high school] as you were posting this. I finally ended up using my scarf to demonstrate the sincere lack of clothing going on.

It is Teh King of Fug.

No, this is the fugliest dress on their website. In fact it might be the fugliest dress ever.

http://www.impressionbridal.com/CTGproms051.php?group=0&type=0

If they could get Courtney Peldon to become their official spokesmodel, the Earth might stop spinning.

Sorry, wrong link. This is the fugliest dress ever.
http://www.impressionbridal.com/images/prom2005/ad405L.jpg
That other one just looked like she was taking a crap.

Oh dear, now I know that if I overdose on Lucky Charms I will look like this: http://www.impressionbridal.com/images/prom2005/ad405L.jpg

Dammit, if only I had seen that dress *before* I chose my bridesmaid dresses! My pregnant matron-of-honor would have LOVED it. Guess I'll just have to have a renewal-of-vows ceremony in a year.

Gaaaah. The horror. Love the site!!

Thank you for allowing me to find this:
http://www.uglydress.com/uglydress/oliverbeane.html
It made my day.
Haven't laughed so much all year.

This "prom" dress.
It's an attention-seeker and she will be relishing all this attention - however come the day she's ignored, her life will be over and she'll spend the rest of her life drunk, drugged, in rehab or all of the above. Even her organs won't be suitable for transplant recipients.
Shame.

I have to give props to Kristin for providing the uglydress.com link. Those pics were absolutely prices. I'm so gonna get fired for laughing too hard at my desk!

This reminds me of the episode MTV's True Life with the girl in Bayonne, NJ. She had a prom dress custom made that was super skanky, super fugly, and not flattering. I can't find a pic of it anywhere online, and it's not on mtv.com.
Somebody find it, please!

I think what's most horrifying to me is not just the dress itself, but (as has already been noted), the obvious photoshopping. Since it's a posed shot, and not a slippage accident, what on earth were they thinking when they took the picure? "I don't think this dress is slutty enough! We need MORE skin! Don't worry, we'll just photoshop out the naughty bits." God forbid they should just let it cover what little it was supposed to.

I would've never been allowed to wear that in high school. It'd be easier and cheaper to have the girl wear a "Free Sex" sign.

Katie Couric did a story on the Today show about these dresses sometime last week. The guy who makes these dresses is some old Asian man. He seemed kind of pervy, but he said he wouldn't let his 15 year old daughter be caught dead in it. Anyway, he said the inspiration for this particular dress was when one of the models at a shoot put that other dress on backwards. He got a very positive response from the people at the shoot so they started making the dress. That's why it looks like it's backwards. It was at one time, but now it's not. Either way, the girl still looks like a whore. Sorry, but it's true.

This reminds me of those bathing suits that are like wearing suspenders on a thong and do nothing to cover the naughty bits. They are very popular on MTV's Spring Break swimsuit contests.

So, why not just wear your Brazilian bikini to prom? Why bother with that provincial skirt?

there are so many opportunities on that site to look like what one Jerry Springer panelist once called "A H-O-R-E!":

http://www.impressionbridal.com/images/prom2005/ad711_710L.jpg

http://www.impressionbridal.com/images/prom2005/790L.jpg

It's a reversible dress! Genius!

"Hmm...what do I feel like tonight? Somewhat Skanky or Wholly Whoresome?"

I think J.Lo and the designer of the dress should be put on a ship and sunk for having started this trend and marketed it to teens, respectively.

I'd like to see how these tween magazines are promoting this "dress". How exactly are those straps suppose to copy up what they're suppose to copy up? Glue?

I'm a junior in high school, and I've been looking for a prom dress recently- and scarliy enough, these types of dresses seem to be quite popular (in the catalouges, anyway...I don't know of anyone who'd actually *wear* one!) I mean honestly, is there a school in this country that would let girls get away with this? Our school threw some guys out at Homecoming this year for dying their hair pink- our principal would probably go into cardiac arrest on the spot if someone showed up in that dress!

As for the poses of the models...I think the scariest one I've seen so far is this one catalouge that contained what appeared to be soft-core, semi-clothed, lesbian porn. Scary.

Sweet fancy Moses.

Wrong on so many levels.

I love that they had her wear a necklace--it's just a delightful touch of absurdity, you know.

Maybe the person who bought the dress is really a stripper and not a prom-goer?

the dress says, "i have such a low self esteem that I need to wear almost nothing so everyone will talk and stare."

And if you insist on wearing a dress like that make sure you have more than mosquito bites to fill the top. PLEASE.

oh toni i remember that dress..horrifying. have no idea where to find a picture of it though.

Looks like they photoshopped her nips to me....

My. A veritable cornucopia of hookerfug. Reminds me of a joke I heard last week.

Two pedophiles are sitting on a park bench when a well-endowed 14 year old girl in a walks by in a slinky halter top.

The pedophiles look on and shake their heads. "Look at that," one says. "I'll bet she was a real goer when she was 11."

"This reminds me of the episode MTV's True Life with the girl in Bayonne, NJ. She had a prom dress custom made that was super skanky, super fugly, and not flattering. "

Amen! I was just going to post this very thing. That dress was a hideous pink creation of the likes only J. Lo has rivaled. On that note, I blame the Virsace creation J. Lo wore on this recent trend. Let's all blame J. Lo shall we???

This is the perfect halloween costume for ladies who want to go as the "prom queen." This def. is the BEST skankie halloween costume ever...it beats the skankie cop or skankie robin hood hands down.

Remember the good old days when people used to gossip about who was stuffing their dress with tissues?

If this is what they're wearing to prom now, I'm terrified to think of what my 6 yr old will be wearing when she graduates! That's it, we're packing up and moving so far north she'll have to wear a parka and mukluks at all times!

You can read an article about the dress in question at the New York Post website: http://nypost.com/style/39213.htm

Favorite quote from the article: "Double-sided tape doesn't last all night."

You can read an article about the dress in question at the New York Post website: http://nypost.com/style/39213.htm

Favorite quote from the article: "Double-sided tape doesn't last all night."

You can read an article about the dress in question at the New York Post website: http://nypost.com/style/39213.htm

Favorite quote from the article: "Double-sided tape doesn't last all night."

You can read an article about the dress in question at the New York Post website: http://nypost.com/style/39213.htm

Favorite quote from the article: "Double-sided tape doesn't last all night."

Is it just me, or does she look a bit like Christina in her "Genie in a Bottle" days? Hrm..... Coincidence? I don't think so.

Does The Brit know about this designer? And is it traded publically. Because, my fellow fugnistas, we are about to become very very rich....

And sadly, there are girls who actually want to wear something like that to prom.

Oh hell. Might as well flaunt it before your tits are down around your ankles from all that prom night baby-makin'.

Confidential to the high school student above who referenced lesbian porn: Less time on the Internet, kiddo. Seriously.

http://www.nataliedee.com/021104/tryouts.jpg

Glad everyone enjoyed the uglydress.com link. I am glad some high schoolers came on here to say they would never wear something like this fug hooker dress, otherwise I would be frightened. At my prom, the puffy pastel look was in (in 1999). It's quite a leap from that to this! Yeesh, I wonder what the model thought when she showed up ...

Model: Yay! I get to pose in pretty prom dresses. These will be great for my portfolio and I can send some to my grandparents!
Art Director: Here, stuff your boobs into this cut-up red sheet I bedazzled in 1984 with a pattern from my Spirograph. It's OK if they flop out, we'll be airbrushing it later.
Model: Wha?? Why??? I think this is on backwards.
Art Director: Shut up. It worked for Kris Kross.

Any girl who wear's this automatically gets the "Most likely to be crack whore" label in her high school yearbook.
Fug you high school harlots!!!

Ok. I totally agree with everyone's comments. I personally think this dress is fucking whorey, and yet I secretly wish I could pull it off. But I ask you, don't you think that there was a similar reaction to the one-piece swimsuit we have today, as opposed to the tents women had to wear in the old days (now THAT is fugly). What if, heaven forbid, this dress becomes NORMAL in years to come???

Great Odin's raven!

In the spirit of the "Oliver Beane" pic - http://www.uglydress.com/uglydress/oliverbeane.html - this is a good one too:

http://www.uglydress.com/uglydress/rolrocandroc.html

Not only is it hooker-ish, but it's just plain ugly, and it would be if it was covering more of the model's chest.

As someone who graduated from high school three years ago, I can safely say that while I saw plenty of skanky dresses (although not as skanky as this!) in prom magazines, but all the girls at prom were pretty well-covered. It makes me so grateful.

The model is fugly too...but then again, most of the girls on that designer's website are fugly.

I think you're suppose to wear a top under that or to be careful you don't have huge jugs.

All I can say is: Ew.

EW! I mean c'mon!

My GOD that dress is OFFENSIVE.

It looks like she put on a bedazzled sarong and then decided she needed pretty pretty princess bedazzled suspenders attached to it.

Holy Crap-oh-ly. Obviously not for someone with back/chest acne. From what I've seen in St. Louis and once in E. St. Louis, the cracked-out hookers (at least here)dress more conservatively.

OH and I lOVE your site. I check it every day now. And I voted for ya'll too. Hope you win!

Should my daughter even think of asking to buy a dress like that when her prom rolls around (in about ten years), I would immediately drive her to the nearest convent. We're not even Christian, let alone remotely religious, but that's the first thought that popped into my head.

Get thee to a nunnery, indeed.

this a look that says, "yeah, i'm wearing this dress. but i'm also not. asshole."

"This definitely calls for a wrist corsage."

Comment Of The Year. I had already collapsed after reading the main post, and then that did me in entirely.

I just hope her date is wearing this:

http://www.alsformalwear.com/shopexd.asp?id=205

It's like something a Las Vegas escort girl would wear that got put into the hands of a teenage slut with scissors and lots of 'imagination'... I wonder what sort of shoes one might wear with it? Platform stilettos? Furry mules?

This is just sad. All the years we fight for equal rights and freedom from exploitation, and now our daughters voluntarily exploit themselves. The self esteem of women has seemed to spiral downwards instead. Young women today need our prayers, and some serious, serious therapy.

it looks my crappy 70s guitar with the sunburst and the messed up pickups, if only it was sort of pukey brown with orange and yellow rhinestones exploding from the crotch instead of looking like someone is playing missle command on this poor girl's nether regions. but perhaps that's what's going on here, let's rethink this one, a little f-ing rock and roll. YEEHAW!

btw, didn't lita ford wear this in a video?

I was hoping that the tux that Brent linked to would feature manpris. Darn.

The only time any girl should wear something like this to prom should be if the prom is themed after "Cabaret".

>>> It's like something a Las Vegas escort girl would wear...

No escort would ever wear that. They wouldn't make it through the lobby of the hotel.

Good grief. As if girls don't have to put up enough with guys talking to their boobs. I think topless would be more dignified and more honest. Or maybe they can just start wearing pasties? I think nipple tassels would really set off that skirt.

And I definitely think this is the ugliest dress on that site by far (though the rainbow one was pretty close to Ultimate Fug):

http://www.impressionbridal.com/images/prom2005/468L.jpg

Holy mother of fug.

You would have to have the most perky, perfect boobs in the world to pull that thing off. Even then it's a perfect example of "Just because you can, doesn't mean you should".

The dress should come with a bag of cheetos, a discount on a pair of "clear heels", and a gift certificate for a post-prom-night checkup at Planned Parenthood as Gifts with Purchase.

Note to Mimi Yahoo: Ummm, the "lesbian porn" comment was a joke, made about a picture with two girls wearing dresses highly similar to the one pictured above. This comment may be inaccurate, as I *don't* look at lesbian porn. I assumed that my comment would be taken as joke, as was intended. And don't call me kiddo.

Paris Hilton and Britney Spears are probably looking at that and thinking "our work here is done"

Scratch that, Britney's thinking "aaaw, how CUTE! A pregnancy dress" and Paris doesn't do the thinking thing.

I was surprised none of you posted this, from the uglydress.com website. This one had my office out of control all afternoon.

http://www.uglydress.com/uglydress/maxpadslip.html

This has to be the most disgusting dress I've ever laid eyes on. What's more disgusting than that dress?

The fact that I know someone who wanted to know if it was in her size.

Okay, everyone, yes, this is the most "wow" thing I think I've ever seen. BUT I hope that thousands of girls go to prom is this or one disscusting creation like it. It would make a great anti-american Al-Quada poster, one. And give me something to laugh about for along time, two. Besides, make the "you-wore-the-same-dress-as-me" cat fights a bit more interesting.
- I didn't even take off my shawl at my prom

My mother and I saw these dresses live and in person while we were looking for a mother of the bride dress and dresses for my bridesmaids. I have seen the lucky charms dress in its entirety, and we laughed our heads off. You have to see these to believe them. The saleslady snottily told us they weren't bridesmaid dresses, they were PROM dresses. We actually thought they were pageant dresses, and we were stunned.

These belong in a costume shop, not a bridal salon. Yikes.

http://www.impressionbridal.com/images/prom2005/393L.jpg
http://www.impressionbridal.com/images/prom2005/753L.jpg

Honestly, I am speechless. As if any sane parent would let their daughter out of the house in that..that..dress-thing. That skirt with straps. Oh God, I need to shut my eyes. I'm just..oh God.

I was also looking at the pose the model is in, and my guess is that one would have to stay standing that way in order for the straps to stay put. I personally wouldn't want to spend my prom with my arms on my waist with my chest jutting out the whole time to keep my nipples covered. And really, someone who doesn't care about flashing their entire breast would probably be better served by going completely topless. Then there would be no fugly suspender thingies.

My favorite part of the picture is the model's head pose: "So, Daddy, do I look pretty?"

As an aside:
To GB in GB - you thought the link to http://www.uglydress.com/uglydress/oliverbeane.html was hilarious. Maybe I'm not getting the joke. Is it just that it's fat women in bridesmaids outfits? Fat women sure are funny.

I can't believe school officials would even let a kid waltz in the door wearing that thing. Jesus! Man, that would make for some truly bitchin' prom pictures, though. THERE'S something to show the grandkids!! "Here's Nana in her sequinned rubberband!"

shfree

http://www.uglydress.com/uglydress/oliverbeane.html

This link isn't funny because they are fat. It is funny because those bridesmaids dresses are hideous, the flowers are hideous, the wedding dress is hideous, the hair is hideous, the colors are hideous and that kid in the corner looks like the kid from Oliver Beane.

Also, right on about the head pose, she does look like she is trying to look sweet and innocent while her tits are out. Classic.

The scariest thing about this dress Jackie posted: http://www.impressionbridal.com/images/prom2005/753L.jpg is that it's actually WHITE PANTS with a bustier and a TRAIN.

As for GB: I don't think GB was making fun of the women, it's the dresses that are horrid, and coupled with the flower 'purses' it just makes them fuglier. They look like prison uniforms, not bridesmaid dresses. The bride should be taken out and shot for subjecting her friends to those attrocities.

Who thinks up these atrocities? There should be some sort of punishment for inflicting this sickness on the world.

With respect to GB - I agree Erin and SBEET- the picture funny b/c the dresses are the epitome of fug. I must add the that bridesmaids should have their heads examined for agreeing to wear that schmatte. My mind will not allow me to consider that those women might have actually liked the dresses.

I take back my comment to GB. I was just standing up for the women of size. I'm sorry I thought the worst. Those bridesmaids dresses are seriously fugly. It's like the bride couldn't figure out what to do so she laid everyone down on thick shiny fabric and rolled them in it. Once the wedding is over she'll unpin them all and make fugly curtains for her house.

As for the pictures on the Ugly Dress site - nothing brought me closer to tears (of laughter? of pain?) than the pregnant prom dress. http://www.uglydress.com/pregpromdres.html

I think the pants-train dress should be commended for it's innovative use of recycled Glad garbage bags.

I emailed the pregnant prom dress to all of my friends. I just think there has to be a better maternity prom option than cutting a large hole in the front of a dress.

My little sister got this catalogue! We spent like an hour going through and mocking the dresses - I can't find it on the website, but there was one with multi-colored feathers on the skirt that I think got my fug vote. They are all hideous, though. And my little sis would not be caught dead NEAR that dress, thank god.

why doesn't jessica post much anymore?

Wait, clearly is she is like Barbie and doesn't have nipples, right?

I've said this several times since having my son, THANK GOD I had a boy and not a girl. I don't think I could handle all this potential teenage girl drama.

I just posted on Friday evening! It's only noon on Tuesday.

The short version of the answer as to why I haven't posted anything between now and then is that Heather killed me, but the REAL answer is that I had to finish my OC recap for TWoP.

Well, I think we have fairly established that if it's ever a slow day in Fugland, you can just post any of the prom dresses on that website, and we'll all have a grand ol' time.

Erin, my mom picked the catalog for me as a joke. She slipped it into my suitcase when I wasn't looking.

The bright orange and yellow dresses really don't come across as fugly as they really are. In person they have multicolored sparkly embroidery all over them. The tulle underskirts are irridescent.

I don't remember the suspender dress. Maybe I just blocked it out.

I really don't know what to say. What is there to say? High school dances are bad enough not considering the dresses! Most of the kids just hold up the wall, so to speak, while the others grind sleazily.

For the comic value of it, though, that dress is sheer genius.

Just when I though prom dresses couldn't show less to the imagination. For God sakes, girl, I hope you have a wrap to cover that dress up!
This dress would probably flop in the Upper midwest, where proms are in March/April. It'd still be cold, and the last thing that dress needs is erect nipples!

Ladies, I present to you the condom dress. It's functional and fashionable. At the end of prom night, instead of being in a pile on the floor next to the bed, it will be INSIDE YOU.

http://store1.yimg.com/I/uglydress_1800_14119208

(lower left)

I just clicked on the impressionsbridal.com site from Zoe's post - Mary Mother of Pearl - BRIDAL? Skanky ho prom wear is bad enough ... but at a wedding? Are you to be seated on the bride's or pimp's side? Sincerely, this has to be one of the signs the world as we know it is nearing an end.

I am soooooooo going to show my parents this picture and say, "NOW do you see how lucky you were when I was back in High School." Prom dresses back then looked like the Prom Scene in 'Pretty in Pink'. (well everyone except Andie's).

P.S. If I even had suggested something like this I would not be here to make a comment. I would have been buried with it on.

In reponse to the comment about the company's bridal wear, if you look at the galleries, many of the bridal gowns are really gorgeous. There are a few that I definitely would never get near to, but any designer has some of those. The weird thing is that several of the gowns have red on them... for the not so virginal bride? Kind of like the scarlet letter...?

One question: Do you have to pay for a full dress? because obviously you're only getting half.

OMG. My prom was in 1998 and we couldn't even wear Spaghetti straps. and My High School is in south central Los Angeles, Whore Capital of California..sheesh, minus well go NAKED.

The "cross-my-heart" action of the chest straps is useful for keeping the dollar bills in place.

>>>>http://www.impressionbridal.com/images/prom2005/468L.jpg

I love how the description says "Purplish". As if he couldn't think of a real word to describe it.

>>>>http://store1.yimg.com/I/uglydress_1800_14119208

Will never not be funny.

http://www.impressionbridal.com/images/prom2005/468L.jpg

i feel sorry for this model. she probably got all excited when they called her about that modeling job, then she shows up and they hand her "purplish". she wants to cry, but she knows that isn't professional, so she puts on the dress, sticks her chest out and tries to coax a smile onto her face. but in the end, she just looks like she's going to cry anyway.

Last year, I got an email with a bunch of ugly prom dresses. That wasn't the worst of it though...Remember that trend that lasted 5 seconds and only girls in Sunset Park, Brooklyn hopped on? It was like a long jersey, sometimes with (ugh) corset lacing? Well they made a prom dress out of it. And the girls dates were wearing matching outfits (they weren't really tuxes....hard to describe). If anyone could find a link to the pictures, it would be awesome. The best part is that they were actual prom pictures, not something out of a catalog...sigh...

Don't wear if you have bazookas, heh.
Actually do not wear at all!.

seriously, who would actually wear this to a prom? i am in high school and we just had our winter formal, and if anyone showed up in something like that they would probably be expelled on the spot. Not only that, but its not like that would have even been well recieved.

I will say what I always say when I see half-naked high schoolers:

"DUDE! She's, like, TWELVE!"

Holy Mother of God - do these girls have no modestly at all? Dressing sexy is one thing, but this is over the top! This dress should be called an "undress" because there's nothing to it!

It is really surprising that the prom dresses are so tacky because the wedding dresses on that site are almost refined and sophisticated.

I hate to say this, but this morning I was listening to the radio and the dj was talking to a woman who bought this dress for her daughter for prom. Lady, I don't care if your daughter is a very mature 18, or that she's an "adult." I don't care that she has a gorgeous body and that she looked breathtaking. I'm sure she did. As in "*gasp* What the hell is that girl wearing?"

I cannot believe any woman in America would encourage her daughter to buy this dress. Oh, and the best bit? Her dad thinks she looks stunning in it, too. Her FATHER. Mine would have out the gun in a heartbeat. Ya know?

--"Oh, and the best bit? Her dad thinks she looks stunning in it, too. Her FATHER."

See- that's just a little icky. If I would have walked downstairs in that "dress," my dad would have sheilded his eyes with embarassment while swatting at me with a broom until I went back upstairs.

Good Heavens! The girl's father liked seeing her in this dress? Are they from Arkansas?

So, so sad.

Ok, it's obvious she plans to run for prom queen. Her speech would be something like this...Thank you all for voting for me. I planned to come here looking like a skank desperate attention-seeking ho and you've fulfilled my dream. Thank you again

Unfair! Unfair I say. No way in hell the girls in my highschool would have worn something like that. The highschool boys of today - lucky little bastards.

Girls at my school get laughed at for wearing MINISKIRTS.

There would be like a greek chorus of catty juniors following the girl who wore that dress, simultaneously shouting every synonym in the english language for "prostitute."

Somewhere, even Lilly Kane is cringing and saying, "Girl, you need to put a damn coat on."

wow....I knew the retro 80's were making a comeback...but "Dynasty" inspired prom dresses. I don't feel well.

That dress is the icky.

As a prom dress, this garment embodies everything that is wrong with American youth culture (or lack thereof). This dress should come complete with a brochure for the mother of the prom-goer, entitled "So You've Decided To Become A Grandma..."

I can only hope that older women are the ones buying this dress, perhaps to wear at conventions in Las Vegas, rather than actual schoolgirls. Ye gods.

What on earth is going on in this picture? http://www.impressionbridal.com/images/ad2674l.jpg

I need to go lie down now.

Clearly... someone is having a ball.

I swear I saw Paris Hilton wearing this dress. Really truly. Someone? Anyone? Am I dreaming? Wasn't she on the cover of some mag wearing this exact dress?

The model is wearing it backwards. http://www.impressionbridal.com/images/prom2005/376M.jpg

No, she's wearing it correctly...it just looks like it's on backwards when you view it straight on:

http://www.impressionbridal.com/images/prom2005/ad376L.jpg

The story goes like this: the dress is on forwards, however, during the fashion show, the model displaying the dress mistakenly put the dress on backwards and modeled it like that. Before the designer could fix the messup, about 100 orders had already been placed for the backwards dress. Does this make it reversible? At least the model didn't put it on upside down!

"Clearly... someone is having a ball." Oh my God, I might actually pee myself. And really, does it matter whether it's backward or not? The company is selling it that way, and clearly, there will be many, many children in the future tramatized by having their mothers' tell them, "Look, my old prom picture from ninth grade! You were conceived under this dress!"

Love this website and have been here a million times before but this is the first dress that has every inspired me to actually post.

1) Graduated from high school last year and if any girl wore that to prom not only would she be refused admittance to prom, probably also made fun of for weeks on end. Also at the 10 year reunion would still be the girl who dressed like a complete skank to prom.
2) Someone said this shows a lack of the youth's culture and let me say that a lot of teenagers are fairly normal and would laugh or gasp in horror at this dress. We are however a let live generation. If that girl wants to wear that, and is not hurting anyone (just making a statement that she is desperate and needs attention) who cares let the girl have her prom.
3) Any parent who buys this for their child needs to have a reality check. I suspect the parent is like Amy Poehler's character in 'Mean Girls', the mom who wanted to be a best friend to her daughter.

I'd HIGHLY recommend people check out this site (especially the "out on the town" section):

http://nypost.com/style/39213.htm

it contains a number of pictures of basketball jersey formalwear. awesome.

(oops - here's the correct URL)

I'd HIGHLY recommend people check out this site (especially the "out on the town" section):

http://www.hotghettomess.com/

it contains a number of pictures of basketball jersey formalwear. awesome.

Models with breast implants shouldn't model dresses like these or should approve the airbrushing ahead of time. Is it only me who is picking up on this?

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEK

wow I am not officially frightened. Have i turned into a conservative? I'm terrified now that i'm suddenly becomeing BOB DOLE after looking at this photo.

To quote Cher's father's reaction from The brain dead movie of MY generation, Clueless: "WHAT IS THAT!" "A DRESS" "SAYS WHO?" "CALVIN KLEIN" "IT LOOKS LIKE UNDERWEAR, GO PUT SOMETHING OVER IT"

And that was just a tight piece of white spandex that covered her to her thighs! I can't imagine what would have happened to the poor old man if she had come down in this!

You know it might be the English Major in me, but there are times when i wonder what women of days gone by, such as Jane Austen might say if they saw what we wear today. I always figured that our love of bluejeans might make them gasp... I'm afraid this dress might send poor jane in to cardiac arrest. :)

And you know what, just one final quick comment running off the father who said his daughter looked GOOD in this! You are sick sick man and need therapy. And frankly if i were your daughter the LAST thing I'd want to wear is a dress that made my father go, "hubba hubba" I haven't been a teen in eight years, but i do remember the one rule of thumb that has existed since the gidget movies, if your parents like it, it's PROBABLY uncool . :)

When faced with situations like these and you feel the need to exclaim "That 12-year old dresses like dirty skank," but you are just too lazy/shocked/etc. to formulate words into sentences.
Try this word: prosti-tot. Clear, concise and easy to utter in moments of psychological trauma. Use it often, for evil and not for good. Because, frankly, no good can come of things like this dress. Unless by "good" you mean losing your virginity in the dimly lit parking lot behind the 7-11 in the backseat of your boyfriend's crap cavalier, whilst D12 (insert your personal singer/s from hell here) plays on the stereo.
Those, my friends, will be memories to last her a lifetime.

I think I know why this dress was made.

Girl comes home with a catalog of prom dresses. She says to her dad, "Okay, daddy, I narrowed it down to two, this one (slutdress) and this one (only minorly slutty). What do you think?"

Dad makes the only sane choice, then goes down to the local bar to try to erase the image from his mind.

Yuk! That's Sad, if her front strap would get stuck somewhere.

The real problem with this dress is that either

a. your nipples will show, or
b. you advertise to the world that they are pointing outwards.

It's not backwards, the straps are crossed at the waist instead of at the neck like they are supposed to be http://www.gmtoday.com/news/fashion/topstory12.asp Which is explained in the news article.

This is a prom dress from Texas?!?? And the designer has actually sold some of these for prom night?? My daughter would never have made it out of her room with that on. Hello invitation to rape, goodbye common sense. And mom and dad would have been shocked and surprised their little girl lost her virginity, complained to the local authorities, filed a law suit and wanted the guy buried under the prison. Possible, but only if they are the FLOOR he is lying on.

That was the tackiest prom dress ever. Click my link.

I write for a fashion industry pub that covered that line, and I actually got to (had to?) interview that guy for the story. He has absolutely no shame. He openly admitted that he would die before he let his own daughter out of the house like that, but said that "prom styles are very sexy" these days and "girls want to look sexy like their favorite celebrities." The word "sexy" came up about a dozen times, and I just wanted to scream at him, "Why are you trying to make underage girls look sexy, you freaking perv?!"

Man, you people seriously need to get some feminism. I think it is important that we ask ourselves *why* a girl would want to wear a dress like that to prom, but seriously, if a girl really wants to wear it, let her. By enforcing "whore" stereotypes you only strengthen damaging rape myths and perpetuate a culture of gender inequality.

EEEWWWW i think i just saw her nipples. im sorry but that dress is just asking for some 50 year old to come rape her. i can just hear the dress now...come rape me come rape me now. that is sooo grody. i think im gonna go to the bathroom right now and throw up the rest of that dress. seriously if anyone walked out of the house like that and to a prom night then the whole school will make fun of her...well maybe just the girls. the guys will probably go over to her and say their first words to her,"hey how ya doin sexy thang". but boys will always be boys. horny little boys. and also that dress is making fun of the girls who dont have big boobs. but ya that dress is just soooo nasty. gonna go barf now.if you agree with me click my link.

how can she dance without those things coming out??!!??

Maybe it's because I go to a Catholic high school... but that dress is SO against the dress code. In fact, the only school you'd manage to pull it off at (while spiked-punch cups are being thrown at you and the occasional dollar bill) would be one without a dress code... unless you were making it with the principal, which with a dress like that is not unlikely.

You people are so anal! It must be an american thing.

1. Its a nice dress. She has breasts, show me a woman that doesn't, and they all come with nipples.

2. Your children ARE having sex. They just dont tell you - like YOU didn't tell YOUR parents.

3. Feminism is about empowerment and having the choice to be sexual / sensual or not.

4. NO-ONE invites rape. No matter what someone wears it is sick attitudes like that propagating these excuses.

5. Sex and sexuality are things that occur and our youth learn about on the way to becoming adults - your GOD made it this way - so stop complaining and get on with life.

6. Good christians shouldn't be pointing the finger so often. Call someone a slut for clothing - I hope jesus sends you to hell for ignoring him. again.

The photo is retouched.
...
Either that or her thumbs are on backwards.

well lemme just say this. My prom is less than a month away and believe me, every girl who is going has seen the prom magazines and websites that has this dress on there. I am proud to say that NO GIRL from my school is even goin near that dress. All the girls at my school absolutely hate it. I mean, My God, why spend so much money on a dress that has hardly any cloth on it at all and stay in it for like a total of 4 hours? Maybe? It's good to know that my school has some morals to it. My dress happens to cover me fully except a little of my neck and arms. Thank God for beautifully cheap dresses from Dillards lol.

omfg (oh my fugging god) cant believe this is an actual dress! cant believe people pay money for this dress. I dont know anyone (you know not legally blind) who would even pay monopoly money for this!.. who would want to go to their prom looking like a protest sign FOR the legalisation of teenage prostetution?

in the words of the scissor sisters "filthy gorgeous"......... oh but wait apparently the "gorgeous" bit was cut out, along with the bit which covers 90% of each boob!

That is soo hot! That is what a Las Vegas prom dress looks like,,I've seen more down here. I love this dress it's cute.

wtf is that? is that suppose to be the back of the dress

I know this is old as hell, but the red dress is on backwards.
http://www.impressionbridal.com/images/prom2005/376M.jpg
The pattern of beads on the front and back are different. What's more, the picture shows the back, and the straps are the same size as the ones worn in front on the ny times model. There's no way the front straps can look so thick from the side and not straight on.
Worn correctly, it's cuter than most of the shit that Xcite makes.

TheAthiest - please don't whine about feminism and this dress. People can argue that our right to be a whore is empowerment, but cmon why would anyone with an ounce of self respect wear that dress? We aren't enforcing some false whore stereotype, that is honestly something a whore would wear. I've seen them on the street and they dress that way to signal "hey I'm a whore" to their customers. That is their uniform, its part of the job and if you are gonna act the part you can't be suprised at the reaction. We aren't strengthening rape myths or inquality here. Anyone with half a brain knows women of all types get raped not just the ones people say were "asking for it". When the only accesory you need for your prom dress is a matress to strap to your back you can't really be shocked if people think you might be a whore. Who is enforcing gender inequality here? It couldn't be the girl who let's the whole school visually get to second base with her at the prom. It must be all of us who think she is a skank for *gasp looking like a skank. Let her wear it??? Are you immune to fug or something?

http://www.impressionbridal.com/images/prom2005/ad410_410M.jpg

reminds me of the paula abdul Grammy horror

"This reminds me of the episode MTV's True Life with the girl in Bayonne, NJ. She had a prom dress custom made that was super skanky, super fugly, and not flattering. I can't find a pic of it anywhere online, and it's not on mtv.com.
Somebody find it, please!"

Toni- her name was Ava and it was from the Sweet Sixteen series...

Still couldn't find a picture though.

here is a video:
http://www.mtv.com/onair/dyn/sweet_16/series.jhtml

hey tha shit is tha bomb

Wow.
You guys are seriously messed up.
The holier than thou high school girls who're like, totally, not skanks at all. Course, the BJs and anal sex you give your bfs in the back of your mom's minivans are like, totally, for Jesus cos like, you signed the abstinence pledge and stuff.
And what's up with all the "She's practically begging to be raped" bullshit? Some idiot expounds that women who ask for it aren't the only ones getting raped and that cutie-pie virgins get raped too. No shit, Einstein. But about the ones who're in your words "asking for it"?
Where do you draw the line about who asks for it and when? Does a tight tanktop qualify as asking for it? A miniskirt? Gasp...having a few beers...now THAT's asking for it...What about walking alone at night on campus?
Where do you draw the line, bitch?
But hey, you're no skank, right? Just remember that the vast majority of all rapes happen from people the victims knows and trusts. So just ask your boyfriend and your uncle what they consider to be "asking for it" and dress like how they say.
Really, I'm surprised the brilliant Heather and Jessica didn't catch this ridiculous attitude. but why shit where you eat? I guess the less they correct their readers' moronic and primitive attitudes, the better for them to fellate their readers' sensibilities.
How very white-collar bourgeois of you, girls. ALl that liberal arts college education and all you feel toward other women is disdain and contempt. And all you feel about your own selves is entitlement and narcissism. Maybe one day you'll wear a cleavage bearing outfit and feel very lowdown and trashy when some guy rapes you and wonder how best to word a sarcastic quip directed at yorself, this time, because you realize that you deserve it because you asked for it.

I AGREE!!!!! i didnt ask for it. but i got it anyways. the dress, yes, i think its ugly, but i dont think that anyone that wears it is asking for it