It was senior year of high school & the winter dance. My dress was that perfect combination of maturity & classic that my 17-year-old self yearned for, while my hair was pinned back & I wore rhinestones dangling from my ears.
this was one of my bff’s, mary carr. we grew up across the street from each other.
I felt all lit up inside. For the first time, I believed it when they said I was beautiful.
You rock the halter style! Love it!
You were beautiful this day, and you are still beautiful every day!
i second what robyn said. every day. EVERY day, girl
DAMN! Look at those curves!
Keep it! It’s not taking up much space. Keep it.
I love clothes like that. The ones that bring that rush of emotion and memory. Keep it. Save it. Wear one day when you need just a little more sparkle in your step.
I still have all four of my prom dresses (1997-2000). One day my daughter will play dress up in them; just like I did in my mom’s old prom dresses. And one day she will wonder what on Earth possessed me to wear a dress so silly looking, just like I did with my mom.
Pretty! I don’t blame you one bit for not wanting to part with it!
I think I have that dress! Or at least one very similar. I wore it when performing with my school’s small vocal jazz group and I can’t part with it either.
Perhaps you need a fancy night out for your next anniversary to bust out the dress?
Here is a little peice of advice… I lost all my prom dresses in a fire at my parents house when I was a freshman in college. I yearn for those dresses that made me feel so special and pretty. I wish I had them so that I could gaze at them once in awhile and remember. I wish that I had them, to possibly, one day see my daughter play dress-up in them (I only have have a sweet little boy like you, but maybe one day!) Besides, it is a beautiful dress, you might need it someday!
Please tell me that you don’t put it on to do the vacuuming because that would be weird…kidding kidding…I think that you are beautiful everyday. It shines through your words. Don’t you ever doubt for one second that you’re not a smokin hot vixin. Rawr.
I agree with the others who said to keep it. It doesn’t take up much room. & you look amazing in it!
I still have my dress from that night too. Just can’t get rid of any of those dresses lol
I suppose I’m oddly unsentimental? I don’t like to collect “stuff”, even meaningful stuff.
I sold most of my girls’ baby clothes and hacked at the rest of them with scissors to make a quilt. (It didn’t turn out great, but when I’m 90 I’ll cover myself with it in the nursing home. Whatevs.) Pre-pregnancy, I walked in too many older friends homes and saw basements/attics piled UP with baby shit that they kept for 10 years and felt obligated to keep on storing. FOR WHAT? Who wants baby clothes from last decade?!? And when the grandkids come, they aren’t going to want dry rotted Barney overalls.
I don’t need the physical item to remember that day or how I felt–it’s in my head. And I have pictures.
If the dress still fits and you think you’ll wear it again, keep it! If not…well, sometimes it’s hugely freeing to load old clothes into a box and dropping them at Good Will. I swear, it only hurts for about 2 hours. Then you come home and your closet has room for the hangers to actually move and you’ll say, “Oh! I forgot I had that skirt.”
True story.
For a contrary opinion, I lost nearly all of my stuff 3 years ago in a fire (almost 3 yrs to the day, actually). I sometimes get annoyed that I don’t have certain stuff that I don’t necessarily want to re-buy (like golf clubs or a panini press). But I honestly never get sad about not having my old formal dresses or anything similar. I really never miss them, because they don’t serve a purpose. I guarantee you, life will go on just as well with the memory vs. actually having the dress.
Mary!!! She and Austin were in our birth class! You guys were adorable in HS.
I still have my prom dress…the first time I ever felt beautiful too!
Goodness, I barely even remember any of my formal dresses. Probably because I hated dances. I hadn’t thought about dress up though, these dresses would be great for that if you just can’t bear to part with them
Haha… I still have my dress as well… it’s weird isn’t it how sometimes you just can’t get rid of certain things
You were and still are, beautiful. Believe it then, trust in it now.
Awe you ARE beautiful girlie! You could totally still wear it! To what, don’t ask me… <– and therein lies the problem. I still have my prom dress and I would totally wear it again… if it wasn't horrid, and white (nothing stays white around me), and horrid (did I mention horrid?) (;
-L
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