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The more Hollywood upped the ante with glossy and glamorous depictions of prom night magic-cum-chaos, the more actual teens invested in the hopes of experiencing a night like those they’d seen portrayed in popular media. Images via Touchstone/Kobal/Shutterstock, Paramount/Rso/Kobal/Shutterstock, Moviestore/Shutterstock, Paramount/Kobal/Shutterstock, and Aaron Ruell/Access/Mtv/Napoleon Ltd/Kobal/Shutterstock. The magic of prom has had high school audiences in a chokehold for decades. With Hollywood’s help, prom became an essential rite of passage for American teens-a night of drama, sex, and excess.
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In the wake of Carrie’s commercial, critical, and cultural success, proms began popping up more and more in popular films and television like Grease, Footloose, Saved by the Bell, and Beverly Hills, 90210. Images via United Artists/Kobal/Shutterstock and United Artists/Kobal/Shutterstock. Not quite what an ideal prom should look like. The film was a hit, earning over $33 million dollars and an Oscar nomination for lead actress Sissy Spacek. The following year, President Ford lost the election to Jimmy Carter and a day later, the greatest prom horror flick of all time, Carrie, was released in seventeen theaters in the Washington D.C./Baltimore area. Image via Avco Embassy/Kobal/Shutterstock. The party went until 1am and was a relatively tame affair with no reports of drunkenness or other unruly behavior. Students drove their own cars through the White House gates and were ushered into the East Room by members of the Secret Service, who cleared each of them to attend the month prior. The Beach Boys were originally set to play, but the deal fell apart when the band insisted on recording the event for later use. The men wore black and white tuxedos (some with ruffled shirts) and the women wore floor-length dresses and orchid corsages. The first, and only, prom held at the White House was a tame affair. So, the president’s sister-in-law, Janet Ford, and a handful of teachers from the Holton-Arms school where Susan was a senior, acted as chaperones. Her parents, President Gerald Ford and First Lady Betty Ford were, at the time, en-route from Belgium to Spain as part of a diplomatic tour. In 1975, first daughter Susan Ford held her school’s prom in the East Room of the White House. Image via Grey Villet/The LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock, Hbl/AP/Shutterstock, Francis Miller/The LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock, Glasshouse Images/Shutterstock, Thomas D Mcavoy/The LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock, and Wallace Kirkland/The LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock.Īs American wealth and leisure time increased, proms became more extravagant, eventually migrating from high school gymnasiums to hotel ballrooms and country clubs. Over the ensuing decades, proms made their way down to the high school level, first appearing in high school yearbooks in the 1930s and ‘40s, and becoming more formalized in the post-WWII McCarthy era-a time of tremendous economic growth and rigid social conformity.Ī lot of post-WWII proms looked the same. Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney in Andy Hardy Meets Debutante, 1940. The name “prom” was derived from the term “promenade,” the simplest of dance moves whereby women were led around the dance floor by their male partners. Images via Historia/Shutterstock, Historia/Shutterstock, Historia/Shutterstock, and Historia/Shutterstock. We crown these historical illustrations Prom Royalty for their winning captions. Prom used to be for people looking for spouses. Proms, at this time, served a purpose similar to that of a debutante ball-presenting women of a certain age to the marriageable men of their socioeconomic set.
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Students would put on their “Sunday best” to dance and socialize with members of the opposite sex. Nothing bad ever happens at prom! Image via Snap/Shutterstock.Īlthough, today, we think of proms as being synonymous with high school, the first proms were actually collegiate affairs, occurring at elite institutions across the Northeast, starting in the late 19th century.īack then, prom was a more casual event. Prom was raised up and immortalized in film and television, and exported across the world like so many McDonald’s restaurant franchises. In either case, prom is deeply, unabashedly American. It’s a regressive, heteronormative tradition rooted in conformity and consumerism with a long history of racism, classism, and homophobia. A rite of passage not to be missed.įor others, prom just sucks. The social culmination of their waning teenage adolescence. For some, it’s the greatest night of their young lives. Here’s a look at its history, as told by photos in Shutterstock’s Editorial Collection.