Weekend Special: Business Casual Prom At The Ski Village Bible Study? PLEASE TO EXPLAIN
Posted on May 07, 2010 by promtacular! in 1980s Prom, Backdrop FAIL, Bizarre Backdrops, Feathering As A Lifestyle Choice, perms | 9 Comments
Year: unknown, but Imma guess 1982
Oh, on the surface of it, you’ve got your average Promtacular! elements. Shared hairstyles, two people who take feathering VERY seriously. A giant shoulder-corsage so large it looks as though it’s physically weighing her left side down.
An inexplicable backdrop.
But um? I am gravely serious and concerned when I ask, What is happening here? This sad photo with its cellar floor and stark blue backdrop makes me yearn for the days of Mardi Gras masks or lighted brown cardboard rainbows. And what on EARTH are they wearing?
I am going to call the folks in this picture Todd and Margaret.
And I sort of wonder if Todd and Margaret’s prom was held in Margaret’s parents’ basement at 2 o’clock in the afternoon as part of their regular Bible Study. Where they served Hi-C and Oreos.
OR? Maybe Todd and Margaret decided to go to prom in costume instead of prom attire, and that — for some reason? — the costumes they chose were those of Working Stiffs. That gray suit and tie is just…so middle manager at IBM 25 years ago. And Margaret’s dress has an air of Steno Pool about it, no?
In which case all that’s missing from the background is Todd’s square, brown faux-leather briefcase and Margaret’s giant white Reebok sneakers for wearing during her commute.
And yet, instead of briefcase and sneakers we get a fence and skis. Because…
…because I have no idea.
SERIOUSLY. WTF IS GOING ON HERE?
Ponder it over the weekend and get back to me.
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Um hello???!!!! Did no one else notice that her SHOES match his SUIT!!!??? that is the HEIGHT of awesome!!!
THIS! I totally came here to remark on the wonder that was color-coordinating the shoes to his tuxedo, but you were much classier than I and got there before me. Seriously, I consider that the height of Promtacular.
You both beat me to it! Come on, they deserve props for that… They don't go for that silly stuff of the corsage or boutonniere matching *her* dress; they went for *her shoes* matching *his suit*. Nice!
I noticed it too!
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Gracias
Kicker
Nah, can’t be IBM circa 1985; IBMers always went for dark suits, white shirts, dark ties in those days. And in the decades before that. And probably in the decades since then, too.
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I remember having a gray and maroon annie hall menswear phase around 1979-1980, and I had gray suede pumps similar to hers, but no one, NO ONE I know would have ever gone to prom in a street-length dress, even a disco dazzler dress. Tea length didn’t even appear until later. Prom was long dress zone, period.