Teenager Barred from Prom for Confederate-Inspired Dress Sues

Herald-Leader/Knight Ridder/Tribune ^ | Dec. 20, 2004 | BETH MUSGRAVE

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

A robust young lady such as this would look much more attractive in the dress shown in post #2. In my day, girls' mothers encouraged them to wear *flattering* clothes.

I think she's cute and healthy looking. Not like the stick figures that everyone considers to be attractive.

[trussell]

Where is the pic of the dress? I would love to see how she turned a confederate flag into a prom dress!

[AnAmericanMother]

It works for me (and I don't have the window open any more).

This one is ice-blue satin with bronze embroidery. It's also a Worth, but it's obviously for a matron not a debutante:

Sadly Worth merged out of existence in the 1950s.

[AnAmericanMother]

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph! Where did they get those models, Ethiopia?

Seriously, the sheath dress shouldn't be worn by anybody whose bust or hip size exceeds their waist size by a significant amount. It's not that they are fat, it's that the line of the dress is spoiled by the hourglass shape of the figure. The style also fails to set off a nice waist - if you have one you should display it to advantage. If you look, you can see how the heavy sequins pull the line of the fabric away from her waist and hide it.

She is a pretty young lady and perfectly attractive - she just needs a different style. A princess cut or Empire line would be quite flattering.

[XBob]

[cyborg]

She looks like a cow in that dress.

[cyborg]

I like the dress but it makes her look big.

[cyborg]

I think the dress is very imaginative. If I was thinner, I sure would wear it, but to a Dukes of Hazzard fan fest *LOL*

[cyborg]

Hoop dresses are beautiful.

[longtermmemmory]

bump

silly principle.

If they let this go, and just made a rule for future situations they would have been fine. I hope the young lady sues the pants off them and funds her college education with the proceeds.

[gitmo]

There are few Constitutional Rights that extend into the classroom. Public School Students do Not have First, Second, Forth, or Fifth Amendment Rights in public schools.

You're right. Most property owned by Federal and State governments are Constitution-Free zones. They should have a sign over their doors stating, "Abandon all rights, Ye who enter these gates."

[gitmo]

[fhayek]

The, uh, south will rise again!

[gitmo]

:-)

I had someone on another thread say that for the first time in his life, he thought that Old Dixie must come down.

[groanup]

"She looks like a cow in that dress."

Bull.

[cyborg]

It's not flattering.

[groanup]

"It's not flattering."

LOL! Cyborg walking down the runway in Paris.

[longtermmemmory]

HOWEVER the reaction of the principle is actionable. There was no southern flag dress code. This particular girl was singled out on that particular day.

It is also worth asking who was sponsoring this event. It may have been "the prom" but these are usually financed by the students, organized by the students, and hosted someplace off school grounds. (do they even do proms in the gym any more?)

Kids will now figure out ways around this principles pettiness. She will wear a red dress, he will wear a blue tux and each have a star pin or some such double meaning fashion attire.

[cyborg]

I suppose she has the right to wear whatever she wants but she should realize that drawing attention to a full figure is not what most women really do. Or do they? I sure don't! LOL

[MilspecRob]

Like it or not this Flag is a part of our History and we have the RIGHT to display, wear and Honor the flag of our Southern lands. We didn't like being bullied and pushed around then and we sure as he!! don't like it now.

I think these RIGHTS were forfited at a place called Appomattox a few years back

Now puting on PPE