Winter Formal on the Fly

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Registered: 12-22-2003
Winter Formal on the Fly
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Wed, 02-08-2006 - 10:16am

Well ... after a series of events worthy of a soap opera series, DD found herself with a date for her schools' winter formal ... which is THIS SATURDAY!

Winter formal is couples only and her date is a boy from her math class, who's father teaches religion at the school. Dad met DD at school yesterday, then called and had a lengthy phone convo with DH last night, so it seems everyone is comfortable with the situation.

DD has neither dress, shoes, bag or wrap for this. Looks like I'll be doing some power shopping over the next few days. (And I was planning on trying to sneak into today's chat! Oh well, perhaps next week.) Good thing DD and I agree on styles and what we think would look best on her figure, and I hope stores have a refund/return policy for these dresses since I plan on buying a couple or three, then letting her chose one.

I sure hope this turns out to be a fun night for her!

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Registered: 10-21-2005
Wed, 02-08-2006 - 11:50am

Well ... you have to admit, it is kind of amusing! And you know she will have a great time and look lovely... no matter how much running mom has to do to come up with a dress! It's great that the dad took the time to call your dh - a very good sign.

Don't forget to toss some Flamingo food in her bag...

jt

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Registered: 01-20-2005
Wed, 02-08-2006 - 12:07pm

I think you have more notice than I did with my b/f's sr prom. He didn't mention it until the day before. My dress wasn't that great but it was pretty, fit and we had a wonderful time.

One of DH's cousins mom threw her out the week before prom so she moved into her dad's. Her sister tried to sneak her prom dress, shoes, jewelry, etc out to her but got caught and was grounded. So the day of the her prom, my MIL took her shopping and bought her new everything since she had already spent all her money on the original dress that was sitting in her mom's house.

Last minute shopping can work - just hope she's not hard to fit. You may also ask friends with DD's a little older if they have a dress she can borrow or buy. It might save you some time. We went to three ladies in our church and came home with around 15 dresses total. DD and 2 of her friends had a small party trying on dresses. Her 2 friends found dresses that were perfect. DD was a tad too large (she has boobs) so we wound up shopping anyway.

Hope she has fun!!

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Registered: 12-22-2003
Wed, 02-08-2006 - 5:44pm

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LOL -- I was thinking more along the lines of a can of sardines for the dolphins. I like them much better than the flamingos.

I guess it is all pretty silly. I feel like a complete knucklehead, though. After school yesterday when DD was trying to orchestrate her grand plan and making a zillion phone calls, she met the boys' dad/teacher, and he asked her "Is YOUR mother okay with all this?" I hope he didn't get the impression I let her do whatever she wants whenever she wants with whoever! That's probably why he called! Her whole plan was so goofy I was pretty sure at that point it was all going to unravel and end up in a pile at her feet. It pretty much did, but Plan B seems to be in effect now.

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Registered: 12-22-2003
Wed, 02-08-2006 - 5:57pm

Oh goodness ... compared to your stories, I have loads of time to get this all organized!

The church we attend has a very tiny number of youth that attend so our options for finding a dress secondhand there are slim to none. There are only two other hs students who attend church/youth group regularly and they're both boys.

I bought five different dresses today in five different colors. I don't know what color suit the boy will be wearing (DH didn't ask THAT question) so I tried to pick colors that would go with what I am assuming will be either a black, navy or tan suit.

I sure hope one of them fits! I am pretty sure I will have to do some hemming of whichever dress DD chooses. She is petite and there is a very limited selection of formal dresses in the petite section, so I had to buy dresses from the regular sizes department and hope for the best.

I really the idea of recycling these dresses. I think I will suggest to DD that formal recycling may be a good school project when she's an upper classmen to raise money for sr. activities, if she can get a lot of girls to participate.

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Registered: 01-20-2005
Thu, 02-09-2006 - 10:15am

Most of the older girls are in college now and have gained the freshmen 15 and probably will never be able to wear those dresses again so doing this helped them to raise a little spending money and clean out closets. One of the girls brought her dresses over and was there with them when they were trying on - they had a blast.

A friend of mine uses the consignment shop to sell her DD's dresses. You will probably get more money from the consignment shop but this way is alot of fun and alot of girls don't want strangers having their dresses. They want to be able to see the pictures of their friends in their dresses.