Is knee-length too short for a prom dress?

[otherlander]

I found this really nice red dress online, and it was only $40, (made in America, too!) so I ordered it. But it's only knee-length and I was wondering... is that too short for the prom? I was going to wear my hair up in a bun, and wear long silver dangly earrings, black eyeliner, and black sandals with it.

[MonkeyFunk]

1. Yes

but nobody cares what I think.

but in my opinion, prom dresses should be long.

[auntAgonist]

2. It sounds lovely. I say wear what YOU want to wear.

got a picture?

:)

:hi:

aA

[otherlander]

5. Not yet

I'll put one up when I get one of me and my boyfriend together. He's wearing a black suit with a red tie. I'm getting him a red rose and he's getting me a white corsage.
^_^

[ceile]

3. Not at all.

I wore a knee length dress. Of course that was many moons ago.....

[NewJeffCT]

4. as long as it goes down past your butt

it should be okay

;-)

[noonwitch]

6. The price sounds right!

I was a high school student from 1978-82. We wore Gunne Sax dresses, which were full-length lacy things. My mom gave one of my sister's dresses to a girl she volunteered with, to wear as a wedding dress.

Our dresses were modest,by today's standards. I'm sure you will look wonderful, but my dad would have never let me go to prom wearing a dress that was knee-length or shorter.

[supernova]

7. Those dresses are "cocktail" dresses

and are perfectly fine after 5:00pm formal wear.

Sounds lovely. :D

[Breeze54]

8. Glamour Magazine says that's the new rage!

Go for it! :D

Have fun!

My son got fitted for his tux yesterday...

[Ava]

no

whatever you like!

and quite frankly i think most of the long dresses i see around prom time are hideous

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. You know what? It's _your_ prom. Do whatever you want. I myself wore

a 1950s taffeta gown that belonged to my grandmother, and the next year I wore a gunne sax. So I did the Marilyn Monroe thing Jr year and Anne of Green Gables the Sr. :D

They looked vaguely like this:
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(Mine was more bronzy with an overskirt/train in the back, though, and the underlining was peach)

and this:

(But it was full length and poofier, with ruffles and lace. Much dressier)

[LynneSin]

10. It's ridiculous to buy these long prom dresses knowing they'll be worn only once

Sounds like you bought a lovely dress that could be worn again for many occasions. Go for it!

[SacredCow]

11. Depends on the prom....

If it's classified as a formal, black-tie event, then it isn't appropriate- floor-length is the requirement.

But it seems that many proms are going the way of semi-formal, in which case it would be fine.


Edited for pronoun trouble.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

12. in my opinion you will get a million chances to wear a short dress and very few

to wear a long elaborate fancy dress.

so unless you dont like long dresses, i would go with a long one