Just get one of the other guys to stand up with her!
I was reading the St. Louis Post-Dispatch this morning at breakfast. One of the articles was getting ready for prom season, and where to find good (cheap and not-so-cheap) dresses. The title of the article is "PROMinent Advice", which is funny because... well, 'prom' being...the name for...the fancy occasion...get it?
Anyway, there are some pictures with high school students standing in front of
vintage cars from the Museum of Transportation. The cars are neat, the dresses are fancy, the colors are fun. But I noticed that each photo has one guy and one girl. There are two exceptions. One photo has one guy and TWO girls, but one of the girls isn't looking at him. I assume the story we're supposed to concoct in our heads is that he used to date the other girl, but dumped her for the girl who's got her hand around his arm. Meanwhile, the dumped girl has gotten her groove back (as evidenced by the skirt split above mid-thigh) and is putting the scoundrel behind her, literally. Or maybe they just cut her date out of the picture for not looking fabulous enough.
Or maybe you're just supposed to ignore the situation and look at the clothes. I'm not very good at that.
The other non-couple photo is this one, of a single girl in a red dress. She's pretty (alt
hough it's hard to tell from the small photo I found on the website) and dressed in a shiny dress. But she's the only girl without a boy in the picture. Part of it may be that she's not smiling (which tends to improve most everyone's looks) and part of it may be that she's obviously hiding behind her hair.
What I hope accidentally escaped notice is that she's the only plus-sized girl. The article (online HERE) lists "Size Doesn't Matter" as one of the talking points, listing some places to look for "larger-size young women". I think that's great. But the only large-size girl in the pictures is standing in an uncomfortable posture, with no date, and radiating self-consciousness.
And since there's pretty obviously the same guy in all the other pictures, would it have killed them to put him into this one, too? Or is it OK for him to have a harem of girls, but not the heavy one? Maybe they just ran out of tuxes, and didn't want him to repeat. Or maybe her photo was tacked on at the last minute.
Or maybe I'm thinking way too much about high school prom fashion and a vacuous newspaper article. Just seems weird, somehow.
Anyway, there are some pictures with high school students standing in front of
vintage cars from the Museum of Transportation. The cars are neat, the dresses are fancy, the colors are fun. But I noticed that each photo has one guy and one girl. There are two exceptions. One photo has one guy and TWO girls, but one of the girls isn't looking at him. I assume the story we're supposed to concoct in our heads is that he used to date the other girl, but dumped her for the girl who's got her hand around his arm. Meanwhile, the dumped girl has gotten her groove back (as evidenced by the skirt split above mid-thigh) and is putting the scoundrel behind her, literally. Or maybe they just cut her date out of the picture for not looking fabulous enough.Or maybe you're just supposed to ignore the situation and look at the clothes. I'm not very good at that.
The other non-couple photo is this one, of a single girl in a red dress. She's pretty (alt
hough it's hard to tell from the small photo I found on the website) and dressed in a shiny dress. But she's the only girl without a boy in the picture. Part of it may be that she's not smiling (which tends to improve most everyone's looks) and part of it may be that she's obviously hiding behind her hair.What I hope accidentally escaped notice is that she's the only plus-sized girl. The article (online HERE) lists "Size Doesn't Matter" as one of the talking points, listing some places to look for "larger-size young women". I think that's great. But the only large-size girl in the pictures is standing in an uncomfortable posture, with no date, and radiating self-consciousness.
And since there's pretty obviously the same guy in all the other pictures, would it have killed them to put him into this one, too? Or is it OK for him to have a harem of girls, but not the heavy one? Maybe they just ran out of tuxes, and didn't want him to repeat. Or maybe her photo was tacked on at the last minute.
Or maybe I'm thinking way too much about high school prom fashion and a vacuous newspaper article. Just seems weird, somehow.
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