Originally posted by Weisy
ahh, god I hate formals. With all the recent threads about how to do makeup and finding the perfect partner and taking your friends, I thought it best to conceal my laothing for them...but I want to vent.
The accepted "truths":
(1) We need to pamper ourselves and look gorgeous.
we need to spend hours fussing over what we look like so as not to be 'outdone' by our friends.
(2) Formals allow us to spend time with friends.
there are much, much better ways that don't involve spending hundreds of dollars on tickets and frocks and ties and corsages and then feeling awkward in them because you never see your friends that way usually.
(3) Formals are worth it for the dinner and dancing.
shocking food is not only possible, but probable. dancing is a very scary thought for people who hate it, or have never been coordinated in their lives. And from a female point of view - after the first hour or so of dancing, even trying to walk in heels is fatal
I always feel so spent after formals too, as though I've wasted a whole lot of energy and accomplished nothing.
As always, feel free to disagree...
