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Kids these days really need to get some inspiration from Ms. Andie Walsh, poster girl for the wrong side of the tracks. The NY Times takes a look at how the financial crisis is hitting prom-bound teenagers and their parents—but recession or not, Molly Ringwald's character made it work with a hand-me-down and a little elbow grease (video!). Yet here we are. Take Lindsay from Long Island, she suckered her parents into doling out $500 so far with the old "it's a once in a lifetime" guilt trip. Meanwhile, the parents say they're "constantly worrying about money” and job security. With the prom industry expecting a 6% increase in business this year, it looks like one family's financial turmoil is another's recession buster. One shop owner told the paper, “Girls are going to prom no matter what... and trust me, a lot of the girls will not compromise. They will have an aunt pay for it, a godmother, a friend.”

The Prom Dress Fairy came to the LES yesterday, as hundreds of New York City's high school girls were given the opportunity to pick up their ensembles for the big night, free of charge. The Daily News reports back from Operation Fairy Dust's seventh annual Prom Dress Giveaway that took place at Seward Park High School, saying around "1,300 girls attended the event, which transformed the high school cafeteria into a department store featuring over 2,500 dresses in sizes 0 to 16. The selection included more than 60 couture gowns, 50 personal shoppers known as 'Fairy Godmothers' to help the girls find their dream dresses," and folks were even on hand to make alterations. Just how good was the inventory? 17-year-old Melaney Rodriguez scored a strapless tulle Oscar de la Renta worth around $5,000, and practically identical to the one Sarah Jessica Parker wore in an episode of Sex and the City. Here are details on how to donate your old dresses.

Life imitates Gossip Girl tonight as the teens from six of the city's most elite private schools join together for a prom in the Waldorf's Starlight Roof (the Waldorf ballroom is where public high school Stuyvesant's prom will be this Friday -- ground floor for the plebes!).

A 15-year-old girl who was shot in the head yesterday died from her injuries. No arrests have been made in the shooting, but Brandon Bethea was shot shortly before midnight on Redfern Ave. in Queens. She was taken to St. Johns Hospital, but did not survive. Bethea had returned to her old neighborhood in Far Rockaway in order to find a dress for her junior prom, when she was shot. The girl seems to have been a random victim after a man opened fire on a crowd in the street. One resident was despondent about the senseless violence. "All these young babies are dying over nothing."