Teens Bare All This Prom Season

City teens are transforming from Lady to Gaga this prom season! According to the NY Post, girls are choosing to dress more like strippers than schoolgirls... but what else is new? The look for Prom 2010 is all about baring the bellybutton and pissing off the parents.

One Saks 5th Avenue saleswoman actually hocking the goods was disgusted, saying, "I can't believe that mothers let high school girls buy these dresses for prom." And the same story rings true over on Flatbush Avenue, where a store manager told the paper, "For prom this year, girls want short and poofy or long, tight-fitting, with everything cut out — the sides are gone, the back is gone, the front is basically gone." Maybe everyone's prom theme is Jersey Shore this year!

As for a dress code, the Department of Education must be too busy banning bake sales to make one up, because there is no dress code. However, one principal in the Bronx says, "They're not allowed to wear anything where their breasts are exposed... and their rear ends can't be exposed." Save it for Halloween, young ladies!

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By Jen Carlson in Arts & Entertainment on March 29, 2010 12:49 PM

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Guest

"hey mom, is that you 20 years ago?"

"yes... uhm... we used to wear clothes for prom those days."

mingusahum

http://www.flickr.com/photos/p2a2/sets/357536/

hotstepper

that navel is just begging for a post-prom body shot.

ur doing it rong

Boing!

Mordicai

First dress makes me think of Princess Leia. Not a bad thing.

robingee

At this rate they'll have to start wearing edible pasties and dental floss to be "sexy" - then? Two words. Nude prom.

Gotham Extremist

how i wish i was still in hs to tap me some o that!

Kojak

No need! Just hang out in the front with a car, & a bottle of jack.

Gotham Extremist

But I am really scared of the wiggas wearing jeans that are bout to fall down to the ground w/ the Mets hat, you know what i am talking about?

Kojak

They are no longer girls. They are women.

The race to find a suitable mate, goes on.

EastRiver

One of the best lines ever on 30 Rock during budget cuts and layoffs:

Pete: I can’t go back to teaching high school math! Those girls pretend they’re not women but they are!

Kevin Bracken

This NY Post story could have been written in the 1920's about girls exposing their knees. Get over yourselves, puritans.

Snoopy

In any high school across the US there are probably less than a half dozen girls per school that could carry this off without looking totally stupid.

Cannibal

the best part about high school girls is that they don't realize that they look stupid. So that means half of the girls will be wearing this.