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Back off! That prom dress is mine I already claimed it on Facebook. Credit: Getty Images
You get together with your old man and your best male buddies to go shopping for a black tuxedo for that special evening. Maybe it's the prom.
Then, you find it. The perfect tux. And what happens? The big night comes, and two other guys are wearing the exact same black tuxedo.
Go ahead, big guy, cry. Life rarely gets more traumatic than this.
If only men could be more like women. Gals across the country have found a way to avoid this soul-crushing scenario. They're using social media sites such as Facebook to make sure no one snags their prom dresses and other formal frocks.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports girls at Lower Merion High School in Ardmore, Pa., have set up the Facebook group "Please Don't Buy My Prom Dress." Once a girl has found that oh-so-perfect prom dress, she can post it on the group's page to alert girls everywhere to keep their mitts off of it.
She can even upload a photo of the dress to make sure there are no misunderstandings.
"I think it's a good idea," Barbara Sylk, an aunt helping her 15-year-old niece shop for a prom dress, tells the Inquirer. "Even if it's the same dress but a different color, they get upset."
The Inquirer reports these new sites allow girls to post photos, share critiques, comment on other selections and check out their friends' frocks. All that's left is getting a date and hoping to God another guy doesn't show up in the same tux.
Debbi Weidman of Lafayette Hill, Pa., is grown up now, but still suffers PTSD from her prom in 1977. Another girl showed up in a similar prom dress. Weidman will never forget the horror.
"I wore pink, and her dress was in green," she tells the Inquirer. "It was awful. We looked like mismatched bookends."
Of course, if everyone posts what they're wearing to the prom, there are few surprises come the big night. Students will be forced to enjoy themselves without obsessing about other people's clothes.
Laura Kelly, an 18-year-old senior at Merion Mercy Academy in Pennsylvania, defiantly tells the Inquirer she's not going to post her gown online.
"I personally don't care if someone has the same dress as me," she says.
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3-24-2011 @ 2:41PM
lacmacey said...I'm a photographer and have been at a TON of proms. I don't recall any girls having the same dress on the same night. Http://www.couponcodesdiscounts.info I really think you should just stick within your budget, and maybe trade with friends or cousins to save on this ONE NIGHT spending spree! BUY PROM PHOTOS INSTEAD!
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3-24-2011 @ 3:01PM
Andrea Straus said...I had the best time shopping with my daughter this year. We headed right to the usual suspects...Macy's, Lord & Taylor. Found the dress she loved at Lord & Taylor but they couldn't find it anywhere in their system in her size. Feeling defeated, we headed to Nordstrom and there it was, in her size and priced $70.00 LESS!
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3-24-2011 @ 3:21PM
artistwagoodi said...Make your own dress. You'll never look like anyone else.
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3-24-2011 @ 3:47PM
brittany said...I live in SC and most dress shops here ask if you are shopping for prom or a pageant and if you are shopping for prom they will write down what dress you bought and what school you go to and they will not sell the dress to anyone else from your school same goes for pageants they won't sell the same dress to a girl that is going to be in the same pageant as you
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3-24-2011 @ 6:10PM
Alicia said...In my experience, most dress shops do that.
Though someone bought my senior prom dress in a different color. If I'd been a different sort of girl, maybe I'd have cared, but we just ended up posing in a lot of pictures together because we thought it was hilarious that we'd gone to the shop we chose to prevent something like that and TADAAA!
3-25-2011 @ 10:12AM
rosie said...This is the silliest thing I've heard in awhile. Get real.
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3-24-2011 @ 6:07PM
Jean said...Girls should not stress about wearing the same dress as another girl. Just do a version of "who wore it better".
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3-24-2011 @ 6:10PM
Alicia said...Troll.
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3-24-2011 @ 7:17PM
purplerose63 said...I went shopping for my daughters this years prom last year after prom season the sale at the shop had a huge clearance sale and bought my daughters dream dress for a huge discount! She is happy and Im happy. She knows no one will have the same dress and if that happens she will just laugh and have a great time. Life is too short to worry about little things like same dress, same color sillyness.
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3-24-2011 @ 7:23PM
Lin Key said...We didn't have this problem in high school. Our class voted 100% to hold our "prom" at "Grad Nite at Disneyland". We all dressed up, but NO PROM DRESSES. We were lost in the massive crowds. There were several bands for dancing.
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3-24-2011 @ 7:58PM
Susan said...Be as gracious as Mamie Eisenhower was when a guest arrived at a White House dinner in the same dress she was wearing. She told the guest "I hope I look as lovely in my dress as you do in yours." Life can be a great lesson in civility.
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3-24-2011 @ 8:43PM
wes said...Jan I agree. Most mexican boys are drug dealing gang members and the mexican girls are very slutty trash that have trouble keeping their panties on.
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3-25-2011 @ 5:53PM
PrincessHashem said...I think your comments are too destructive. Let me tell you something, hispanics including the Mexican you are attacking have more moral values than you Mrs. Racist. We do not take our kids to Dr. to have pills and have an abortion. If they make a mistake we encourage to be responsible for their act. Tell me now who are the dirtiest here. The only thing I can say to any Hispanic who read this nasty and destructive message of Mrs. Racist is remember that the one who reject you, reject Jesus and someday it will have to be in front ofhe great white throne to feel how is to be rejected. Mrs. Racist I will be praying for you.
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3-25-2011 @ 9:47PM
Lauren said...Wow, if your life can really be traumatized or ruined by this type of thing...its pretty obvious that you didn't have a life to begin with. Could it be disappointing to see the same dress? Sure, I could understand that. But to let it ruin your night seems pretty silly.
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