Prom Dress Sparks Debate for Being Too Revealing

[diabeticman]

Mireya Briceno, a high school senior, was kicked out of her prom for wearing this dress, which supposedly violated the dress code. (Photo: Connie Briceno)

The mother of an 18-year-old girl is speaking out this week after her daughter was kicked out of her high school prom on Friday for supposedly violating the school dress code.

Connie Briceno went prom dress shopping with her daughter, Mireya, and did so with the Muskegon High School dress code in mind, she says. “The guidelines specifically said backless dresses are acceptable,” the Michigan mom tells Yahoo Parenting. “The rules stated the dress needed to adhere to the ‘fingertip rule’ – meaning the dress had to hit below your fingertip when standing with her arms by your side. They also said no midriff showing, which to me means stomach. And they said the words ‘backless dresses are acceptable.’”

Seems like a double standard to me.

What irked my wife even more was down in the article her mother stated:

Connie says her daughter left the prom immediately, without inquiring about the unfair treatment. “I’ve taught her to be respectful, and that if you are told something by a teacher, you listen,” she says. “She’s not one of those people to ask why and question authority.”

Still, once she got to the parking lot, Mireya called home crying and asked what she should do, Connie says. “She asked what she can do, and I said ‘there’s nothing you can do.’ I told her to go to dinner with her boyfriend, and try to enjoy her evening,” she says. “She was really upset. She has her boyfriend’s prom in two weeks, but still, this was her prom. She missed out on a memorable time with her friends

My wife was irritated. You can question authority respectfully. Why didn't the mother go down to the prom ask to see the principal and ask why her daughter's backless dress was unacceptable when your rules state that backless dresses are acceptable.

[stevenleser]

1. I found pics of her dress. There is nothing wrong with it. Here it is

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[notadmblnd]

2. she looks like Flo from those insurance commercials

I love the dress.

[Polly Hennessey]

3. Dress

Nothing wrong with dress. She looks great in it and looks very happy to be wearing it.

[LittleBlue]

4. Nothing wrong with it

People with nothing else to do, doing too much

[MineralMan]

5. But I can see her back! The horror!

Cute dress. Cute girl. Stupid school.

It's not everyone who can get away with polka dots at the prom.

[randome]

9. I think the rules meant 'backless and heavyset'.

If you're slim, that's an entirely different story. Apparently.
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[catrose]

11. I'd have said "curvy" or "Rubenesque"

or some other positive way of saying what a lovely, womanly body she's put into that dress--but I agree that that's the problem. She looks TOO good; it must be wrong.

[NuclearDem]

14. ...that's "revealing?"

[stevenleser]

15. Well... compared to the general attire at the convent...

[WillowTree]

6. It was because it continued to be bare around the sides.

I heard her interviewed this morning and she said that she wore her date's jacket when they entered the dance because she knew that the dress didn't comply with the rules they had been given.

Personally, I don't see anything wrong with the dress, but if she knew that it would violate the rules and she wore it anyway, my sympathy is limited. You pays your money and you takes your chance. In this case, it didn't pay off.

And the "someone else did it too" argument never worked on me, either.

[JI7]

7. that is a common style in dresses these days

Hers is actually less revealing than many others still.

[WillowTree]

20. I get it. I think the dress is perfecty OK as well.

But she knew what the rules were, so she knew she was taking a chance. This probably won't be the last time in her life when she'll have to decide whether to live by a stupid rule made by someone in a position to make it or risk consequences.

We all get to face that particular monkey now and again. I'm up against one of those right now at work and I have to accept that it's their playpen so they get to make the rules, even if they're dumb........or take a chance of getting my hand slapped (which is surely all that would happen if it blew up on me). I'm going with not rocking the proverbial boat 'cause it's not all that important to me.

[stevenleser]

10. Attempting to control outfits at senior proms is not OK IMHO. At that point, the kids are adults.

If anyone should be exercising control it's the parents. Parents pay for the dresses after all. I reposted my daughter's dress on my FB page as a TBT after thinking about this issue. It was less conservative than this poor girls dress https://www.facebook.com/steve.leser .

[DefenseLawyer]

8. I'm a small man in some ways, Bart. A small, petty man.

Three months detention.

[Takket]

12. Couldn't her mom have just drove

A sweater up to the school for her to wear?

And I agree, nothing wrong with the dress

[stevenleser]

13. In most cases yes. Although my prom was 35-45 minutes drive from my house.

I've heard some being longer distances. It may not have been practical.

[Stallion]

16. Ugly Dress-But Not Too Revealing

nm

[stevenleser]

17. .

[muriel_volestrangler]

18. Link (although everyone else seems to know what the dress looked like

and what happened):

https://www.yahoo.com/parenting/prom-dress-sparks-debate-for-being-too-revealing-117698417467.html

[Iris]

19. Every damn year. n/t