With prom season almost three weeks away, many girls have their dresses and are either mainly juniors who have not attended prom before, or seniors who have more or less gone to it before. Dresses for girls are always huge, especially with who has which color, which dress, and how one gets it altered, if they even do at all.
Senior Bethany Stufflet, who attended prom last year, got her dress from a boutique called White Pear. She loved her dress, but did get alterations on it, which ended up being $100. Her advice on that is, “Don’t spend a ton on alterations unless necessary.” Some places tend to rip girls off, especially during prom season and with wedding dresses. Besides just alterations, her advice is to find the perfect dress, no matter the cost, as long as one loves herself in it and feels comfortable.
For my prom last year, I got my dress from Boscov’s, which helped make the cost cheaper. I got my train shortened on my dress for roughly $40, and to me, that was decently priced. I loved my dress for the most part, but to me I was glad I got a good deal on it. My advice towards prom dresses is that if somebody likes to dance, get rid of the train, no matter how nice it looks in pictures. Besides that, I also recommend not caring if people wear the same dress because if somebody can find a dress that looks boutique-made for half the price, go that direction, and because for most people, the dress is a one-time thing.
Ultimately, most students seem as though they get their dresses altered for prom. For some, it gives them a better idea for the next year on how to go about altering. But the main idea when getting a prom dress is to get the individually perfect dress.
