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Booldawg | 19:15 Wed 29th Jun 2011 | ChatterBank
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When did school proms become popular in the UK? I know its more of an American idea.

I left school in 1985 and remember there being some sort of 'do' but nothing on the level of a prom with dressing up smart and turning up in style.
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My son left school in 1996 and then they were just called 6th Form Dinner Dance. They did dress up though.
when i left school u got on your bike went home and started work on the monday,no song and dance when u left in the 60s
In ireland we call them "Debs"..like a debutantes ball.been popular for at least 20 years
I can't understand this, having a school prom, its an American import, and honestly its one we shouldn't be adopting.
too late.. all the schools do them.

my daughter had her prom last summer (when she finished her GCSEs), and when she's finished 6th form, there's a Leavers' Ball!
Schools have always done Balls.

Now they call them "Proms".

Isn't it just the same thing?
Yes course it is Jayne....
Ours didn't, only sort of thing if you went to University.
Can't remember anything for us when leaving school or college - didn't do balls (whoever I phrase this it sounds wrong!) til uni.
It started between my son leaving high school in 1997 and my daughter leaving in 2000, cos she had one and he didn't.
When I left Grammar School we had a sixth form dance and all the girls had ball gowns, I had my hair up in ringlets and a black and turquoise silk gown. We had to have ballroom dancing lessons in the dinner hour for a few eeks before, no pop music allowed, (1972 as well )
That sounds lovely, dotty.
I think I had a school 'disco'. Not even on the same planet as my daughter's prom. Her dress cost me about £200 and I felt like I hadn't matched up to other parents because I took her there in my car rather than the limos, vintage fire engine, horse and carts and even a tank that delivered some of her classmates.
At my grandsons prom some kids turned up in a helicopter.Him and his mate went in a battered old mini.
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at least no-one had a 'Carrie' moment!

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