Whenever I check my Facebook these days, I always see my former student-friends posting their prom pictures.  Honestly, I feel envious!  I feel happy stalking their prom pictures…takes me back in time.  Gusto ko uli mag-prom!   I want an excuse to wear a beautiful prom dress!  By the way, I have a story about my prom dress.  You see, in my sophomore year, I was a bride’s maid in the wedding of a family friend.  The gown was really gorgeous.  So in my junior year, when I was looking for a prom dress, my relatives suggested that I use my bride’s maid gown.  Of course I did not want to, because I wanted a new gown.   I saw a stunning dress on my classmate’s  YM Prom Edition magazine, and I wanted it copied.  I went to a dressmaker and instructed her to copy it.  When it was done, it looked horrendous!  As in.  And when the dressmaker saw my disappointed face, she even had the gall to be annoyed, telling me that if I wanted to really have the dress copied I should have had a bigger budget.  If I were bitchy back then, I would have told her that it was not the budget but rather her lack of talent and her cheap taste.  Hello, she named the price kaya!  She should have told me that copying the dress would cost a lot.  Even my Mom, who’s far from being clothes conscious, did not want me to wear the dress because it was really..unworthy of me (hehe).  But since we were running out of time, she borrowed dresses of her friends, designer and couture pa at that.  Come prom night, I had plenty of dresses.  But in the end, I chose to wear the one I used as a bride’s maid.  And know what,  I ended up being awarded as the Best Dressed Lady that night.  I kinda expected it, because I was often approached by the faculty of my school complimenting my gown.  Then after four months, on the Acquaintance Party in my senior year, I got the Lady of the Night award.  Kwento lang  Made me feel ecstatic both times.  And so I decided, in my own little way, acknowledge those who seriously looked for THE prom dress they wore on their proms.

Last night, I posted this on my Facebook:

Junior and senior ladies and gentlemen, please tag me in your prom photos. I’m looking for the best dressed prom girl for my blog.  Please please!

And then I was tagged in some pictures–some on their own pictures, some by their friends/relatives.  Some sent me private messages and links to their own proms dresses.  Here they are:

Yen Chua at Hotel Rembrandt

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