GLAM GAL: "You only do prom once, and I've been planning this for over a year," says Brooklyn 17-year-old Jenna Cossuto. Photo: Graham Morrison
Posted on 03/26/2006 3:39:31 AM PST by Liz
GLAM GAL: "You only do prom once, and I've been planning this for over a year," says Brooklyn 17-year-old Jenna Cossuto. Photo: Graham Morrison
Jenna Cossuto spent $2,400 on her custom-made dress. She'll rent a 22-seat stretch Hummer to transport her closest friends to privately booked Gotham Hall. And then it's off to the swanky South Street Seaport at Bridgewater and afterward, a party in Crobar's VIP section before a long weekend in a Hamptons beach house.
But this once-in-a-lifetime weekend isn't for Cossuto's wedding. It's for this 17-year-old's senior prom.
She's part of a growing generation of teens who think of prom as the end all, be all of their young lives. "Teens think of prom as their Oscar night. They want to look and feel like celebrities," says Gina Kelly, fashion director at Seventeen magazine.
According to a Seventeen prom survey, girls spend an average of $833 for dress, shoes and accessories......(and) shell out $135 on beauty products, $105 at the salon and $206 for tickets and limos.
"I'm not sure exactly how much I'll spend, but probably thousands and thousands," said Cossuto. If she gets all she wants, the total will exceed $10,000. "My parents are just happy that I saved up myself for the dress, and they'll obviously help me pay for everything else I need."
Beyond the designer Jovani dress, which includes multi-carat Chopard diamonds, Cossuto got $550 Gucci shoes, a matching handbag, tanning sessions, eyebrow shaping and professional hair and makeup for the big day, June 7.
The only thing she hasn't nailed down? A date. "I don't care about that as much," said the teen, who will go to college at Florida International University in Miami. "I'll have one, but I don't want to make the wrong decision."
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To the guys who think she did it all for you:
Think again.
obviously
Pathetic shallowness....girl, her friends, and her parents.
Like the ambulance & ER bill after your $500 shoes get tangled up in that dress & you break your neck?
She could spend that money on healthcare
Is the prom the most overhyped, overblown, overrated thing on earth?
And as for Seventeen commenting on the importance of prom to these girls, gee, I guess they had noooothing to do with promulgating this attitude? ha!
I've also never understood formals where the kids spend all that money to dress us elegantly and then they're going to be grinding to 50-Cent and Yellowcard. It makes no sense. The Hungarian or Vienna Debutante Ball it ain't.
So is there a prom involved in there somewhere?
I pity the guy that ends up with this high-maintenance New York idiot princess.
I suspect she'll treat him as just another Prom accessory, a lap dog on a leash if you will. But, in fairness, her date will probably be very similar in philosophy to this 'fine young lady' and will treat her the same.
Who needs a date when you're surrounded by your closest friends? Bought and paid for.
She is stupidly indulged by her parents as much as one of those 39 pound house cats that have threads posted here.
Gonna be hell getting the stains out of that $2400 dress after she sneaks one too many drinks and vomits all over it.
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Gee, I hope she doesn't get vomit on that pretty dress.
Spoiled brat. Where did she work to save the money for the dress? You can bet it wasnt McDonalds. More than likely she saved it from her lucrative allowance her parents provide her. Her parens arent raising a productive member of society, they are raisng a leech.
Being a male I never had this great dream of a prom being the greatest thing in my life. I was just looking for a chance to get laid.
They forgot to itemize the cost for the abortion afterwards to deal with the after effects of getting pregnant at that Hampton's Beach House.
I pity the guy that ends up with this high-maintenance New York idiot princess.
Given the girl's spending spree and activity plans for the night it seems to me that, in her mind, she's not going to the Prom, she's indulging a dream to attend the Oscar's. There's got to be a red carpet in her plans there somewhere.
Being a male I never had this great dream of a prom being the greatest thing in my life. I was just looking for a chance to get laid.
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