• Kim

    I saw this earlier on dlisted.com! I’ve already pledged to make this my ’08 Hallowe’en costume … tres Flavor of Love!

  • http://themetamorph.com Michelle

    Why, I do declare, I am positively scandalized that such a paragon of good taste and elegance should be denied her senior prom.

    :insert requisite “When I was a senior in high school…” grumpiness here:

  • http://www.digitalcatharsis.com the mighty jimbo

    i’d hit it.

  • http://www.digitalcatharsis.com the mighty jimbo

    i tried SO hard not to write something snarky. honest i did. just. couldn’t. help. myself.

  • http://www.bunnieblog.com Bunnie

    When my daughter has her senior prom in a few years, I am so making that dress for her. Did Heather take notes, so she can make one up for Leta’s senior prom? That dress is HOT!!

  • shaunacon

    Did she make that dress herself? That is the funniest thing I have seen all day.

  • Kim

    Give the girl credit for moxie. She is wearing the HELL outta that dress!

  • n

    At least she wasn’t pregnant. At the time. Did anyone ax her bowt wat her date tawt?

  • Lisa

    obviously no Father in that household or if there was he is a pimp and was hoping his daughter was going to bring home some income that night……

  • http://www.unrequitedlife.wordpress.com Unrequited Life

    ::BLINK:: ::BLINK:: Seriously?! Ok, that’s officially the stupidest dress I’ve ever seen…

  • http://pimpajoentje.be Greet

    It won’t load, am I the only one who can’t see it? (Nothing wrong with my connection, everything else loads fine.)

  • http://pimpajoentje.be Greet

    Never mind! For some reason it wouldn’t load when I followed the link from my feedreader but from here, it does.

    That’s not a prom dress, that’s a bikini with a blanket attached to the bottom.

  • http://www.mylilypads.com lolo

    Seriously.

  • KW

    We’re using the term “dress” pretty loosely here.

    And yeah I’d hit it too. With a stick. In the hope that I’d knock some sense into her.

  • http://lifespatula.blogspot.com Spatula

    I think I love this girl. “I WAS wearin’ underwear!” – sure, honey, only you called it your dress.

    Let’s not knock sense into her. She’s totally precious. The body of a girl, the soul of a drag queen.

  • http://www.weeatt.com Amanda

    Much to my surprise when I clicked on the video to watch this I realized its in my HOMETOWN! Sugar Land, Texas representin’!

  • Leslie

    Ridiculous considering every high school has a prom dress code and every student knows what it is.

    “But ma friends tried to wrap it around me!” I agree with an above poster. Bikini and a blanket.

  • Alyson

    So, perhaps that dress was not appropriate – although many have worn less to the Oscars – but I’m surprised at the attitude taken by the comments. I’m fairly sure that these are the same people who, should I make fun of the way they talk, would take great offense. Some of these people probably railed at Kathie Lee after the Heather interview, some of these people comment on the shallowness and bad attitudes of replies to other blog posts and yet they can’t display the same sensitivity here. Yes, the girl does not have a white, midwestern accent and diction. She’s black, y’all. She talks that way. We’re blurring the lines between hoochie mama and appropriate every day, so it’s no wonder that she has a skewed idea of what is appropriate.

    And her father must be a pimp?

    How would the comments have been different if she was a white girl not allowed into her prom for the same dress? An upperclass, well-spoken white girl?

  • http://blurbomat.com blurb

    @Alyson, I don’t think it has a thing to do with race. The dress is inappropriate for a high school dance. Period. It doesn’t matter what color the skin is of the person in the dress, the dress is not appropriate.

    What is amusing about this video is the attitude of the person; that she feels she has a right to wear something like this to a high school dance.

    So. Pretend it was a white upper class well-spoken girl. Still inappropriate. And super crazy to expect that any high school would allow it.

    Grumpy old man rant is over now.

  • http://www.greeblemonkey.com Aimee Greeblemonkey

    You can’t help it when you mix up Spring Break and prom, yo. Simple mistake.

  • zero

    @blurb:

    While I agree that the dress is inappropriate for a school function regardless of race, Alyson is making the point that some of the comments left are focusing on the fact that this girl is black and their perception that she is lower-class.

    Such as this:
    n Says:
    May 12th, 2008 at 2:04 pm

    At least she wasn’t pregnant. At the time. Did anyone ax her bowt wat her date tawt?

    Tell me that they would have posted that if this had been a middle/upper class white girl. Inappropriate and offensive. Dialect ought not to be automatically associated with level of intelligence or social mores.