Look at these young women....they're wearing beautiful clothes

[cally]

(Here is the link and then click the slide show. http://www.click2houston.com/education/12153828/detail.html ) I know this is an old story but I just had time to look at the slideshow. This is insane. There is nothing inappropriate with any of these dresses.

I admit, I'm a total prude with my dress. My teens laugh at me and I've had a learning curve to accept styles today. Even I, conservative dresser that I am, see nothing wrong with their dress.

Give them a break. They have large breasts and are wearing very beautiful dresses that show off their figure. Their is nothing wrong with any of these dresses.

I admit, I was sort of dismissive when I first saw the controversy. Now, I'm just pissed. What the hell should a woman do? What should she wear to the prom?

[DCKit]

1. A bhurka? nt

[givemebackmycountry]

2. OK...What's the problem? Beautiful Proud Women...Black and White...dressed appropriately...

What do they want...these women wearing burkas?
Black is beautiful, White is beautiful, Women are beautiful.

I'm sick and tired of our young people having to live up to someone else's standards.

Texas...it's a whole 'nother country.

[movie_girl99]

6. oh I don't think you can paint the whole state w/ the same brush

the HS that my daughter graduated from and my son also attends do not discriminate about who they discriminate against when it comes to dress code. If your mom logs enough hours in PTA you can pretty much come nude.

[ceile]

8. It was in LA, not TX. n/t

[Nicole]

10. The prom wasn't in Texas, it was in LA.

This article is from a Houston, TX news source but the prom was in Marrero,LA.

[givemebackmycountry]

17. I'm sorry...I'm not afraid to admit I was wrong.

Different state, same message.
What's the problem?
These women are beautiful, proud, and free to wear what they want.
I support them, and I don't give a shit what state they are from.

[Nicole]

21. I support them too.

I posted earlier I wore something similiar to my prom 30 years ago.

[depakid]

3. What should she wear to the prom?

How about the retro Amish look....

[waiting for hope]

4. Marrero, LA......

Surprising - considering that on any given night in the French Quarter you can see at least 15-20 sets of boobs.

[ThomCat]

5. I don't see anything wrong with those gowns either.

Ten to one he's a fundie, imposing his ideas on morality and modesty upon these girls. x(

[eggman67]

23. The teacher is a she not a he n/t

[Sabriel]

7. It's a formal event, idiot!

Once again, a fellow "professional" manages to make the rest of the teaching force look bad.

Has this person ever even gone to an event where you dress up or a store that sells those clothes? Try finding something without a lot of bare skin!

[ceile]

9. Some of those dresses are gorgeous!

So, what does this tell us?: Women don't wear anything strapless, low-cut or that might remotely show off your curves. Ankle length and long sleeves for you!

[Nicole]

11. Those dresses look fine.

I remember some girls wore similar dresses to our prom, way back in the 70's. I was one of them.

[Warpy]

12. I only saw one with a real problem

The gal in the black dress in slide #2 looked like she was in the process of having a wardrobe malfunction.

The rest of those young women looked proud and beautiful. Those were once in a lifetime dresses for some of them. They had to be the biggest standouts they could be.

Maybe the prude in question thought they should have been wearing fur coats on top of those dresses. In LA. In the spring.

Ruffles and pinafores might have gotten them through the door. You think?

[FrenchieCat]

13. I don't see the offense.

The girls have large Breasts......and still, the cleavage showing is minimal. Where are their breast supposed to go? :shrug:

I don't get the controversy, other than the woman turning them away must wear a size A cup. :eyes:

[NewJeffCT]

14. I don't see the problem with the dresses

I mean, showing a bit of cleavage has been in style for the whole decade (I blame Janet Jackson myself!) and there is certainly nothing remotely gratuitous there. I work in a large professional office for a Fortune 100 company and can see cleavage here if I looked for it.

[Missy M]

15. The dresses are very pretty and in good taste....

I was expecting them to be see through and cut down to the waist. I was surprised when I looked at the photos and simply saw pretty dresses on young women.

[LostinVA]

31. Yup, me too

[RubyDuby in GA]

16. I thought they were all very pretty dresses

Nothing wrong with them.

It is Texas though...I'm sure it's in the dress code to be stoned to death if they show a little ankle...

[theboss]

18. Why did you post this twice?

I'm confused.

[Divernan]

19. They should have had Sister Mary Kenneth with her box of Kleenexes!

For all the formal dances at my Catholic high school, we had to stop at the convent on the way to the dances (so long ago that we actually decorated the school gym with crepe paper and balloons for our formals/proms, instead of renting out some posh country club). Our dresses showed a little cleavage - but there was one girl who was told to tuck a Kleenex across the front of her dress. She was actually rather flat chested, but the dress was sexy hot red number! Many of us wore little matching bolero jackets to the convent, then left them with our coats and danced in our strapless gowns. Oh, the wickedness! I thought the dresses in your link were just fine.

[IndyOp]

20. I am a prude and I only saw one that I thought was cut a little too deeply...

But not offensively so...

The rest were modest.

[Raine]

22. Yeah but those weren't

the ones kicked out were they?? Aren't those just pictures of the attendees in general?

[SoCalDem]

24. This "chick" showed some skin too..and look at what became of her

[shanti]

25. THAT was controversial???

give me a break! my son's prom date(s) dresses were much more revealing and they weren't suspended. but this IS cali....

[fishwax]

26. I don't get the controversy at all

the dresses look pretty standard to me :shrug:

[SeattleGirl]

27. This teacher got upset over THOSE dresses? Are ya kiddin' me?

I didn't see anything wrong with them at all. I showed them to MrSG, who tends to be a bit more conservative then me, when it comes to clothes, and he didn't see anything wrong with them either.

The dresses, and the girls wearing them, are beautiful.

[buzzard]

28. Nothing wrong with those dresses when else are you going to wear them when you are 90.

[LostinVA]

29. WTF??? MAYBE one was borderline

Most were very nice dresses, and the girls all looked very nice, very "classy." I noticed most were curvy with larger breasts. Sinful "dirtypillows," I guess.

Jeebus,

[likesmountains 52]

30. They look like pretty standard prom dresses to me..not offensive at all..

[piesRsquare]

32. What the Hell?!

Those girls look gorgeous! WTF is the problem?!

[Vinca]

33. Picture #5 showed a smidge too much boobie for a high school prom,

but not enough to send her home. Most of them were just strapless gowns. What an uptight teacher!

[TahitiNut]

36. God forbid it be obvious we're mammals!

It makes the snakes jealous.

[Left Is Write]

38. I don't see anything wrong with #5.

[Cabcere]

34. Yeah, I don't really see the problem here, either.

:shrug: I come from a very conservative area of the country, and girls wore dresses like those to my prom and didn't get in trouble for it. :shrug: They're fairly standard prom dresses, IMO, and I really don't see what the controversy is - at first I thought the teacher must've had a problem with strapless dresses, but then I saw that not all of them were strapless (and, really, even the ones that were were pretty modest, I thought). Who knows?

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

35. I see nothing wrong with these clothes at all and I thought the young women looked lovely.

Perhaps the teacher was expecting something more like this

http://www.modestapparelusa.com/dress_party.html

[Left Is Write]

37. Those dresses are too revealing? Are they kidding? No. They are beautiful dresses

on beautiful young women. I'm flabbergasted.

This is the dress my daughter wore to her senior prom two years ago.

[Left Is Write]

39. I've found it! Here's the ideal prom dress.

:P

[Honeycombe8]

40. I saw two or three that were questionable. A few others were in bad taste...

tacky, too glittery and sexy-like for teenagers, but not indecent.

But there was nothing wrong with several of them (particularly those white ones...even if they were shoulderless, they covered the cleavage just fine and weren't skin tight).

Remembering that these girls are teens, not grown women. Their dress should be on the conservative side at that age. Even one of the red ones, although it covered the girl up, was too showy and sexy-like for a girl her age. Age inappropriate, is what I call it.

Just like some dresses would be for me age inappropriate, even if my figure could handle it. But there are just SOME things a middle aged woman is past the age of wearing. And there are some things that a teen girl just isn't old enough to wear.

[LisaL]

42. I am sorry, you are all assuming as if those photos are of

the girls who were not allowed in. I don't think so.
I think those are the photos of all the prom goers. Which ones were allowed and which ones weren't? The captions to the photos do not say?

[LisaL]

41. Are those the ones who made it or ones who did not?

[Raine]

43. That's what I would like to know

I can't judge till I see the actual ones that were kicked out. The way all those girls are smiling leads me to believe they were the ones who went in not the ones kicked out.