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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She'll make some guy's life a living hell someday.
>Wait until you see what she'll do for her wedding! The choice of groom won't matter then, either.<
Upon reading this, I am so very glad I've finished drinking my morning coffee. It's a pain to get off the monitor, you know (c;.
Not only that, she had a hand in its custom-design details.
I'm assuming she cleared this with her parents before she made all these elaborate plans. If they agreed to it, they obviously have more money than sense.
We still are :)
Who are these people???? They must all be living on the east coast. My daughter went to prom with someone two years ago. I got a dress for $80 and the shoes were somewhere around $20. We made an appointment at the Clinique counter at the local mall and had her make-up done for free. She looked terrific. The guy had his own car and that's how they got to the dance.
Honestly, I love capitalism, but I sometimes believe that the people in this country have WAY too much money on their hands.
LOL, do you think I would admit to it, even if I were :^
close :)
I will always be confronted with my prom date.
The school photographer took a full-lenth pic of the two of us arrriving at the prom---and school yearbook editors published the pic sprawled over almost two whole pages at the very front of the yearbook.
My date (and heavy steady) was a football star and quite popular, and I did look pretty neat in my prom gown (didn't cost $2400).
"LOL, do you think I would admit to it, even if I were :^"
No, dear..It is just a secret between us :P
We are all spring chickens.
Meanwhile, they are still searching all over Aruba for another spoiled brat.
...no hot affair with Lancelot ....or anyone else :)
...or maybe I should ask...Where do you plan to go?...and How do you [plan to get there?...(per your post)
I didn't mean you, of course, I was just correcting Wage Slave's version of Arthurian legend. ;) Nothing personal!
How did a Tennessean get transplanted to Europe, may I ask?
..and I was giving you my truthful answer :) ...if you did ask me!
If duct tape isn't the answer, then you must be asking the wrong question! The Duct Tape Guys
Hint: That's not the hummer any prospective date is interested in.
A wannabe socialite?
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