Help me find a graduation dress! - Page 2

GeekyPenguin · #16 02-13-2004, 01:10 AM

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Originally posted by Taualumna
I don't either, but some girls wear shorter dresses to their proms, and those dresses could work.

Short dresses to the prom? A fashion no-no!

Taualumna · #17 02-13-2004, 12:14 PM

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Originally posted by GeekyPenguin

Short dresses to the prom? A fashion no-no!

Hey, they did it. There's always one or two each year. I wore red to mine when most of the girls were wearing black or another dark colour. it was long, of course.

Lady Pi Phi · #18 02-13-2004, 12:41 PM

I think Canadian "Proms" (my highschool didn't call it the prom. It was the formal.) Are very different from American Proms.
While mnay of the girls were dressed up. Some were in short dresses, so long, some very simple some eleborate. However, all the guys were in suits, not tuxes. It's a lot more laid back and not a big deal. Or at least it wasn't at my highschool.

Sistermadly · #19 02-13-2004, 01:31 PM

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Originally posted by Jill1228
Ya need someone to roll wit cha?

Sure, and I might need some representation at graduation - my brother just closed on his new house, and can't afford to fly up with my mom now.

Sistermadly · #20 02-13-2004, 01:33 PM

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Originally posted by Peaches-n-Cream
I found a few daytime dresses, but they were floral or had other prints so I figured Sistermadly wouldn't like them.

It depends on the print/on the floral. I don't know if you watch the Young and the Restless, but the strapless tea-length dress that Drucilla wears in today's episode is fantastic - it's made out of a tweed material, but it's sleeveless. If it's worn sleeveless, it as more of a formal look, but with a jacket over it, it had more of a corporate look. I've been crawling all over the net trying to find out who makes that dress.

Sistermadly · #21 02-13-2004, 01:34 PM

Oh, and I'm not talking about a "grad dance" in the Canadian sense. I'm talking about the dress to wear under my cap and gown (and for the rest of the afternoon) on Graduation day.

Maybe it would have been more clear to the Canadian GCers if I'd said "Convocation" instead of "Graduation".

decadence · #22 02-29-2004, 02:09 PM

You should not be considering buying dresses from anywhere else other than: http://www.plainlydressed.com/

Or similar!

kstar · #23 02-29-2004, 03:17 PM

Since when do the Amish use the internet?

~K*~

decadence · #24 02-29-2004, 03:23 PM

There were some Amish people in an episode of Jerry Springer.
[Allegedly they were Amish].

Taualumna · #25 02-29-2004, 04:29 PM

You know what's really weird? Until I was in OAC (final year of high school), I didn't even know that other Canadians called the "prom" their "grad". At my school it was always "The Formal". I got really confused as well when a friend of mine said her "graduation". I was like, waitaminute, GRADUATION as in COMMENCEMENT (Convocation is the term used for university students, at least in my area)? It's only April, and you haven't done finals yet! She had to explain to me that it was her Formal (though lately, I've seen more and more Toronto area schools use the term "prom". Holt Renfrew and Fairweather both advertise "Prom Dresses") It's like "public school" vs "elementary school". Most Torontonians and those who went to non-public schools say "elementary school", but once I got to university, I heard many small town Ontarians say "public school"

Lady Pi Phi · #26 03-01-2004, 12:48 PM

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Originally posted by Taualumna
You know what's really weird? Until I was in OAC (final year of high school), I didn't even know that other Canadians called the "prom" their "grad". At my school it was always "The Formal". I got really confused as well when a friend of mine said her "graduation". I was like, waitaminute, GRADUATION as in COMMENCEMENT (Convocation is the term used for university students, at least in my area)? It's only April, and you haven't done finals yet! She had to explain to me that it was her Formal (though lately, I've seen more and more Toronto area schools use the term "prom". Holt Renfrew and Fairweather both advertise "Prom Dresses") It's like "public school" vs "elementary school". Most Torontonians and those who went to non-public schools say "elementary school", but once I got to university, I heard many small town Ontarians say "public school"

Yep. It was always called formal at my highschool. I also call it public school. I have been using the term elementary school more since I have been on GC.

Taualumna · #27 03-01-2004, 01:20 PM

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Originally posted by Lady Pi Phi
Yep. It was always called formal at my highschool. I also call it public school. I have been using the term elementary school more since I have been on GC.

I think the term "public school" isn't really encouraged anymore as it isn't inclusive. You don't hear of anyone who attended school in the separate system ask another separate system grad what "separate school" (meaning Catholic elementary school) one attended. It is always "what elementary school". Also, the MInistry of Education uses the term "elementary school" for the same reason.

-Just something from someone who went to a Catholic school from Grade 1-5.

**Note to Americans: Most Canadian Catholic schools (at least in the elementary level) are supported by the provincial government the same way public schools are**