As prom season emerges, I can’t help but be plagued with memories of sheer lilac fabric and the hairstyle simply known as “twists on top, loose in the back.” I skipped my own prom, which was in 2004 – and after looking at these vintage prom pics, I can’t help but be grateful that my most awkward years weren’t immortalized. These people? Not so lucky.
As prom season emerges, I can’t help but be plagued with memories of sheer lilac fabric and the hairstyle simply known as “twists on top, loose in the back.” I skipped my own prom, which was in 2004 – and after looking at these vintage prom pics, I can’t help but be grateful that my most awkward years weren’t immortalized. These people? Not so lucky.
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Um I basically am the black girl in the pink dress
Those duct tape dresses remind me of the alterna-prom queens from “Made.”