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Comments:
Sasha - 2006-06-02 21:59:29
If it were me, I would probably have found it totally hilarious but I went to an all girls school and we were all kind of warped like that. Honestly, I hope she can enjoy her night and look back on this and laugh someday.
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Stefani - 2006-06-02 22:05:30
I'm with you, Stephanie, but what do I know? She feels what she feels, right?(The color of that dress is exquisite - they both look outstanding!) I bet she'll relax about this, given some time. Hope so.
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Kim - 2006-06-02 22:16:02
I agree with you and the others, it's no big deal. But I never went to my proms, either, and so I don't know what it's like...the dress is beautiful. The boy is adorable. She's adorable. She'll rise above it, I suspect.
arrrgh, teenage hormones!
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Alvin - 2006-06-02 23:20:02
Look at it this way... a prom is more than not a much anticiptated dream. We don't know how many of those gowns were made but each one was designed to produce an expected outcome. Now with the dream in full swing, everyone is looking at everyone else and hopelessly wondering what they look like to others.
BUT she was the only one there that could look across the table and say.
Damn, I look good.
And I bet she was as beautiful as a sunday morning.
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Carol - 2006-06-03 05:52:02
At my age now, I could laugh it off but as a teen with all the insecurities etc. I would have been devasted. I understand how she could be upset. Prom is a night to shine, to be a fairy princess and having another princess in your special dress would be awful. I hope she had fun and was able to cope with it.
Even the press makes a big deal out of two actresses wearing the same dress to an award show. Good or bad, people do notice.
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Sharon - 2006-06-03 06:23:44
I never went to a prom either, but I'm pretty sure I would have laughed it off. I've never been one to be hung up on fashion. I'm probably not a typical woman, though.
It's a beautiful dress.
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LA - 2006-06-03 08:34:30
Poor kid. It was easy for me as an adult to shrug and say, "No biggie." when I, too, ended up at a table with a woman wearing the exact same gown as I was. (During my former life as an Army officer's wife.) The horror of youth though is you haven't lived long enough to have perspective yet. Sorry she felt her night was ruined. Especially when she looked sooooo beautiful! Perhaps at their 10th reunion she and that girl should arrange to wear matching outfits again and expunge the bad memoriy of prom with a huge laugh. ~LA
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bb - 2006-06-03 10:34:04
I went to both Junior and Senior prom. I had to wear a second hand gown for Jr. prom. That was what was done in those days. Senior prom could either be a bought gown or one mom made. I chose the one mom made and not a soul would ever have a dress like it. But Rebecca -at great risk of making mom mad now-- needs to grow up. Her reaction was that of a spoiled child.
Go ahead and tell me off now. You know me, call it like I see it. :-)
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Jim - 2006-06-03 14:25:34
I understand this only from a theoretical basis. At my high school graduation dance, the girls all wore different dresses and almost all of the guys were wearing identical white dinner jackets. I hope that other than that, the rest of the evening was inline with her expectations.
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Bev - 2006-06-03 14:30:09
Well, there is all sorts of logic which adults can bring up to show that this is not the ruination of her night, but teenagers are rarely logical. I thought she looked absolutely gorgeous. It would not have bothered me, nor would it have bothered my daughter, but we aren't clothes-oriented.
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zen - 2006-06-03 21:29:34
wow, she looks absolutely gorgeous! what a beautiful young woman. at my age, i'd just laugh if i showed up in the same clothes as someone else....but in my teens i had such low self esteem if someone had shown up to the prom wearing my same dress, i would have felt awful. i would have felt that she looked prettier and thinner and that everyone was looking at me and thinking how much worse the dress looked on me. but that was my twisted thing over 20 years ago. i don't know if that helps you in anyway whatsoever? *sigh* i wouldn't relive those teenage years again for all the money in the world!...~zen
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Bex - 2006-06-04 08:02:07
I know I'm light years away from the age of going to proms, but when you said someone had the same dress as Rebecca, I knew just what she must be feeling...at that age, it's so important about the dress! At least back in the 60's when I went to my proms it was. I totally understand how she felt, and I feel badly for her. She'll shake it off, though. Time heals all wounds - eventually, and she'll tell this tale to her daughter or son some day with a smile.
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karen from philly - 2006-06-04 22:02:03
Reading through Rebecca's experience, I to thought that I probaby would've complimented the other girl on her good taste, but I'm not 18 either. As I scrolled down to see the photo I burst out laughing! Becca is wearing the same dress Amanda wore to her prom!! Great minds think alike. (Don't tell her!)
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JimsBabyBrother - 2006-06-04 22:44:59
could've been worse... if a guy was wearing the same dress (*snicker* couldn't resist...)
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Stephanie - 2006-06-05 07:12:16
Hah! Good one!
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Denver doug - 2006-06-07 19:47:16
We raised three girls, so I guess that gives me an in to stick an oar.
Yep, a minor tragedy, that will scab over and eventually heal without a permanent scar.
I think Mom is the important first aid giver here, and much of what you say will have to do with her cure.
She is a gorgeous girl, and wearing a gorgeous gown.
My sympathy to the both of you.
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