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Friday Jun 20, 2008

School prom... anything to write home about?

I love reading news about the UK from other places (well, tbh I'm a news junkie so I like reading news regardless).

But this is a story about the increase in UK teenagers having proms from the US-based Wall Street Journal. The story suggests that we've "seen the events in movies like American Pie and television shows such as The O.C., and they want the chance to dress up and rent limousines".

Back when I left school, we had a sixth-form ball at the local hotel. We dressed up in black-tie---well, some people did---and convinced the bar-staff we were all eighteen.

So, are proms anything new, or have we just changed the name and made them more commercial?

PS.  The story also suggests that Britain is a "land of school uniforms, rigorous exams and ivy-covered school halls".

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