Once that’s accomplished, the dress remains in the closet, used only for maybe a random wedding or debut of some misguided relative. That sad bit of news should wake up teenagers who are growing up to be way more fashion-savvy than their parents. To make use of their more often pricey-than-not prom dresses, wearing it more than once should do the trick. As a budding designer-shoe fetishist once told me after purchasing an incredibly expensive pair, "I wear it more so that I can say it’s worth it." She divides the price by the number of times she’sworn the shoes. "Believe me, it doesn’t sound so pricey after that." It takes a lot of chutzpah to defend pricey shoe purchases in a third world country, but what’s a shoe-lover to do?
Parents are often piqued after being informed by their bossy children that choosing the prom dress could be the most important decision of their lives, before deciding on college and their major, only to find the dress tossed into a corner post-prom. What’s a micro-managing parent to do? Well, clipping this story is start.
YStyle has a few ideas about breathing some life into your prom dress. Whether it’s a sexy minidress or a full-skirted affair, there’s no limit to what you can do with a gorgeous dress and random stuff from your closet. So don’t toss out your prom dress just yet. With a couple of key accessories and an open-minded approach to dressing, you’ll get more than you bargained for.