Take a look back with us at the last century of prom dresses, from the drop-waist velvet dresses of the 1930s to the ultra-poofy dresses with over-the-top bows and ruffles from the '80s, inspired by teen movies like 'Sixteen Candles' and 'Pretty in Pink.' We also take a look at the minimalistic pieces from the '90s inspired by the iconic slip dress look by Calvin Klein that were modeled by stars like Julia Stiles and and Rachel Leigh Cook in '10 Things I Hate About You' and 'She's All That.'
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So like, what happened to all the undergarments that make these dresses actually look nice and have the actual silhouette of the era???
Yeah, they weren't trying very hard.
THANK YOU
The models, while beautiful, we're too tall for a lot of the styles, and I promise, off the shoulders was NOT a thing outside Hollywood in the 30's! Simply put, the models were too tall, so most of the dresses didn't fit properly.
And why did they make the models walk out in shapewear instead of in the dress?
@@confusedpotato5535 that looked like a leftover 80s dress.
The 50’s definitely should have had a few petticoats to fill the skirt. Looks totally different without
I actually collect 1950s prom dresses.......they were excessively fussy and full.......tons of ruffles........flowers.......bows........tons of tulle and chiffon......flocked organdy.....either worn with a few crinolines or a hoop......
Too short too
love how most of the "reference photos" for the later decades are either celebrities/red carpet events or movies, because that screams "typical teen" so well lmao
Who else is just waiting for the fashion history girlies to ROAST this?
Say more, please. This sounds like something I would be very into
I run a vintage clothing boutique and this video made my eyes bleed. It would be cool if they hired someone who is at least remotely interested in fashion to consult on these videos.
@@yesdnillll if you search "karolina zebrowska everything wrong with" you'll get the sort of video I was thinking about. She's made a few and then the algorithm will probably recommend similar ones by other creators too
Haha me too, just a few seconds in and the 1930's dress is hurting my eyes, it's a 1980s dress they didn't even bother 😂
@@VanniSharma ohhh!! Thanks!
I graduated in '03 and at my prom we practically all had ball gowns. Big, puffy, sparkly, ball gowns 🤣
I know right? I graduated in 07 and it was the same. Many girls got quinceanera dresses for prom to get that poofy skirt. They should have kept the consistency at least and showed 2 options for the 2000s and 2010s.
05 graduate here and I wore a ball gown, as did most of my friends. It was a sea of multi colored tulle on the dance floor! 😂
Unfortunately they’re terrible at being historically accurate, lots of people into historical fashion have the same problem with them, the looks are too generalized and inaccurate for the decade
I also graduated in '03; wondering how they missed the one-strap look - it was sooooooo popular in the early '00's!
Yes! I was in ‘07 and a lot of my friends had ballgowns with pickups! Remember the pickups skirt look?!
The pictures of the dresses were much nicer than anything the models actually put on
Agree 100% 👏🏼
because the models didn’t have proper undergarments and people on pictures had. 1950s dress looked really empty in the chest area because it needs a bullet bra.
I remember in 2013 and 2014 all the girls had to dresses that were long and sparkly or by choice, each girl had a flower on their wrist with different colors. They were all so beautiful with makeup and dresses
A lot of it isn't even period accurate. Like that 30s hairstyle was horrific and WAAYY too long for that decade. It's as if they accidentally mixed up the 30s and 40s models and didn't even bother to correct it 🤔🤔
The fabrics and construction aren’t taht good
In the 2010’s another really popular type of prom dress was the high low skirt. Those where the two you’d see the most at my prom the overly embellished cut out dresses and high lows with big skirts.
My senior year prom dress was a high low dress, ending out the trend in 2019
two piece prom dresses were super popular too!
A for Effort? All the undergarments were super modern! In the 30s Bras were indended to lift and support together with tap pants and girdles. In the 40s Cone bras emerged, as well as all in one corsets, important for the hour glass figure of the time. The 1950s was a continuation of the 40s with more exaggerated Bullet bras. In the 1960s: Less exaggerated cone bras and hip hugger panties with slips! Rigid foundation garments ended in the 70s. In the late 70s and 80s, Corsets were worn as outer garments! Appropriate Undergarments are needed to achieve the silhouette of a particular decade or Era!
My thoughts exactly! None of the early dresses fit right because they couldn't be bothered to change the undergarments. The 50s one was the worst. It was shaped in the front for a cone bra. Without it, there were just two flat bags in the front.
@@friendoffrancis Is it their job to make the early dresses as unappealing as possible, to sell the more modern dresses as desirable?!
No petticoat or even slips...sort of required at least through the early 70s
@@brandyloutherback9288 hard to tell, especially considering that the allegedly 1930's dress could have passed for '80's.
D for effort.
How could they have so many dresses and so few that actually fit?
1998-2001 had the Cinderella style dresses, also sometimes called ballroom dresses. I can literally pull out a yearbook with that in it. What was big at the beginning of the 90s was so much different than the end. They left out the late 70s early 80s too. 🤨
Thank you! Graduated in 2000 and non of those dresses were in style for us. In fact not only were they more ballroom but ours were two piece. That’s what everyone had.
A direct response to the Brandy Cinderella imo!
@@mvelez5002 Yes! A two piece with a fitted metallic bodice and a big poofy skirt haha
@@jj-if6it I wore exactly that. I didn't think the 90s were very accurate at all.
Yup I went to prom in 1999 and I had a cinderella style dress. Thin strap, corset type top and went into a big poufy ball gown on the bottom.
The 2010 dress was gorgeous but no school would ever allow it
I was thinking the same thing
schools in Spain let students wear whatever they like, during the year and at the graduation (there's not prom here). There are not rules.
Kids dressed like that at my prom so I think it’s okay in my school 😅
I had senior prom in 2011 and a lot of girls at my school wore this style for prom
My school did, I graduated in 2015
This should have included period shapewear as well.
This channel never gets the looks right lol.
The early 1970s might have had the "Carrie" style prom dress, but in the late 1970s everything was Southern belle style, very big skirts and lots of ruffles.
If you are doing 100 years of prom dresses you should have started in the 1920’s Glamour. The 30’s dress is clearly an 80’s prom dress. The 40’s dress looked 30’s. Sloppy research and production
they always so sloppy tbh, everything looked quite of ill fitting as well
The 30s dress was polyester! Ridiculous.
The """30s"" dress was so 80s man it was ugly. I'm kinda glad they didn't do 20s dresses they always make them short my gosh
Glamour always suck with the earlier decades unfortunately. The 30s hairstyle looks more like a 40s one, and the 40s hairstyle is far more appropriate for the 30s. 🤨🤨
How is this so bad the first few dresses look nothing like the reference photos and the dress the model wore while the talked about the style in Carrier was literally the opposite fit of what they were saying
well do you really expect them to time travel back to the early 1900s and get a prom dress ?
@@-gemm They are a big channel with tons of money. They could have bought actual historical pieces, which actually exist, or get a seamstress to made them new ones, with the patrons that you can find in online museums or magazines of the era. But no. You know what? Cause the main objective of this kind of videos is to sell the dresses they show in the video. All this dresses are contemporary.
I attended proms in 1983 and 1984. Hoop skirts were very much in fashion. Not the huge ones like during the Civil War, but enough to hold out big full skirts.
Wore a cheap dupe of the Lily James Cinderella gown for my 2022 prom and was honestly surprised why no one else was wearing a princess gown like me. The 2020s prom dresses seem to be body-fit and sleeveless with a very straight silhouette idk how to describe it Edit: Why'd they show a pic of Zendaya for 2020 she's not even someone who goes to prom anymore 💀
The 1980s dresses shown were like an understated version of the real prom dresses worn in the 80s, close but not enough. Needed more and bigger ruffles, more sparkles, shine and puffiness. Maybe some sewn on roses. Super gaudy (yet iconic). And my prom was in 1997 and most of the girls in my school were wearing dresses that looked more like the 2000s.
AND WAY BIGGER HAIR! 😀
And also, freaking JEANS JACKET with prom dress!
They couldn't even find a crinoline for the 50s??
Bro you can get really cheap ones made of netting now lol theres no excusw
As someone who went to prom in 2000s , it was being "risque" and "edgy" to wear a two piece "prom dress". My cousin did it, and they bought threw her out of prom and told her she couldn't walk the promenade... So of course the following year, I had to follow suit.
My friend managed to get away with a bellydancer outfit for prom in 2005. She brought a nice shawl, just in case she got dress coded, but nobody cared.
While I love "Pretty in Pink", I could never get over Andie ruining two perfectly good prom dresses, to make something that resembled a pink potato sack! 👗
Exactly! The end result was such a let down, she completely ruined her friend’s beautiful dress!
Agree
In fairness, Molly Ringwald fought really hard against it, saying it was ugly and no girl would want it
It was so ugly
Agreed. So ugly
2010s isn't very accurate. Plus, what high school would allow that? Scene/emo inspired dresses paired with Converse or looks similar to the 2000s.
Where is Karolina?!?!? MEME MOM!!!!!! Come and help these researchers!!!!
I LOVE THESE 100 YEAR SERIES SO VERY MUCH 😍
Same
Ikr? Teaches me even more about how culture changes around the world each decade
I do too
80s fashion will always be my favorite, the colors, and patterns and styles were so cool.
The model who screamed for the Carrie reference understood the assignment 😂👍🏻
I was surprised by the 1930's one, it wasn't the silhouette I was expecting.
Me either.
It looked like a cheap 80’s dress.
The whole video was a travesty, but the 1930s one they especially didn't try. The model has 1940s hair and wrong undergarments, not to mention it's made of polyester and doesn't fit. Seeing as the model didn't even turn around, they could have wrapped her in satin lining and pinned it in the back and it would have looked more 1930s than this.
my prom was in 2015 and i can confidently say (by my account and seeing others during high school and middle school) that prom dresses didn’t look like that at all lmao (and school would dress code you so fast if you wore smth like that), maybe it was just in my country but 2010’s prom fashion was very much a subdued version of ballroom 2000’s dresses
also the other dresses and the models looked absolutely fab but wtf is going on with the fitting and undergarments 🤨 they should’ve adapted them for each decade
I agree, I also went to prom in 2015 and I don't remember anyone's dress looking like that - not even close. I feel like the 2010s in reality were just less gaudy versions of the 2000s dresses - less of those chunky jewels and less shirring but the same vibe overall.
Agreed. I graduated in 2016 and the 10s dress looked nothing like the dresses I saw at my prom. Every dress I saw was closer to the 2000s- long full skirts, embellished sweetheart tops, and one colour, almost always a jewel tone like cobalt or scarlet or royal purple.
The 50's and 70's styles looked very good to my eyes.
Carrie dress, 90s and 2010's are timeless beautiful styles
gosh i love the 70s one. it fits her so well.
Love to see how much fashion has evolved over the decades 😊
My prom was in 1994 and EVERYONE was wearing a velvet dress with a velvet choker. That was HUGE in the early 1990’s (at least in WI)
In Australia our ‘formal’ in year 10 which was 1993 every single girl wore a velvet choker 😆 I wore an off the shoulder shot green taffeta dress with black netting underneath
@@skyef8172 I wore a green lace, off the shoulder dress with black underneath!
Back in 2011 the dresses in the bridal boutique windows were moonlight/mother of Pearl colors,sorta a more subdued, irradeceant version of metallic colors that were more turquoise and strong metallic green in the late 2000's . There was a long shimmery, darkish silvery purple v-tank straps,body con dress in the window I remember. And some medium silver shade that weren't my size.
5:14 Her makeup is perfect! She looks amazing!❤
That’s pretty accurate. I went to prom in 2009, the back was entirely out, the front neckline came down to the belly button and the front had a high slit… it was shiny and Gold! That dress was beautiful!
Most of the video is not historically accurate.
It's like they're not even trying.
Neither are the undergarments.
Agreed. The hair, shape wear, and shoes were almost always wrong. So were a few of the dresses.
90’s one is soooooo elegant!! I love it❤️❤️🫶🫶
Mine was the ruffles of the 80s that was still popular in 1993 for me and my dress was made of the shiny copper taffeta. Was awesome
They left out the early 80's Jessica McClintock "Gunne Sax" dresses!
They put it in the wrong decade, the 1930s.
I went to prom in 2014 and yet the 2000s dress was very similar to the one I wore.
Same for 2013
I actually had my had my senior prom in On the 22nd of April and I wished I wore one of those gowns they look amazing on the model ❤
2020s should have been a sweater and shorts cause of covid 😭
I loved the 1940 s dress and the yellow empire waist dress. My favorites I had "prom" in the 90 s had a simple spaghetti strap dress
Definitely nostalgic for the 2000s (my prom)...and the 80s because I grew up with Pretty in Pink and others!
I love the two 1970s dresses! So elegant, effortless and pretty ❤ definitely my favorites
All the prom dresses are so gorgeous 👗👗👗👗👗
This is done so poorly. Thank god for the YT historic fashion vloggers.
Meme Mom needs to see this ✋😩
I loved that they featured 2000, 2010, 2020s including specific years of 2020,2021,2022. Iv never been to Prom so this video is super cool to me
Proper undergarments would of helped the earlier dresses.
Mine was in '03 but my dress didn't fit the trend of the decade. My class was wearing a sea of embellished bodice and tulle skirted ballgowns in pastels and pinks while I was wearing a bright red Old Hollywood-inspired one shoulder mermaid.
'03 here, as well. We all had puffy, tulle ball gowns at my prom, too. I wish I would have done a more vintage look. I'm sure you looked stunning. 😃
Honestly, the 1960s was actually really cute and gorgeous
I’d have loved to also see matching accessories and shoes with the outfits
The best part of this for me was the few seconds of dancing at the end 💃🏽
1940s hair should have been for the 1930s and 1930s hair should have been for 1940s
My dress for my Spring 2010 Prom was elegant. I didn't have cutouts in mine at all. It was bright yellow. Almost gold yellow.
Yikes, I wore the early 90s one (black skirt, white "shoulder"). But I agree with the comments that period shapeware is necessary for everything pre-70s, and the models should have been diversified throughout (and more diverse body types).
They all looked like a child’s princess dress that we all used to have atleast one of
I love the Jackie O inspired 1960s dress!!
Love the 30s & 70s! ❤
It's sad no longer seeing earlier decades.
My prom dress has a red silky cocktail dress with a cardigan kind of strap, it's beautiful
Why are so many of these dresses so short? I can see tea length in the 50s but otherwise prior to the 80s the dresses were long. A better example for the late 70s and early 80s would be the "gunny sack" dress that was lacy and country looking.
where's karolina because this is baaaaad
I've been watching these 100 years videos since forever and the scream I let out when you started in thr 1930s and then ended I the 2020s ohmygoooooood I'm old ahhaha
Those beige one piece things they have the models wearing are brutal ☠️
Agreed. They’re also not the right undergarments for most of the dresses.
1:46 This one even brings back memories of watching Grease. Fantastic!
Those last two dresses were so pretty!
I love that y’all still do these I love them
The 80s had giant puff sleeves on many prom and wedding dresses. I feel like they should have shown that. I feel like alot of the styles shown look more like someone's modern idea of what was worn instead of what was actually worn.
5:39 this ate
that 40s dress is so ill fitting lmaooo
The 30's dress couls just as easily be worn in the 80's
Love these, thank you💕✨👑
My senior prom was in '22, and so many girls had sequins and glitter on their dresses. I stuck with something more romanesque, simple with a bit of a slit up the side, but most girls went over the top.
I absolutely LOVE the Pretty in Pink dress.
80 and 00 were the best,i love it
Where I lived in the early nineties, everyone had a dress that looked like they were going to perform as a trapeze artist😂 rural NE Kentucky.
Lol 2000 i even had the same hairstyle 😂
The 2010, OMG, I loved it!❤
I’m used to these videos ending with the 2010s…now there’s the 2020s
Please keep presenting the 20s!!! I love that era!!
I luv them all😭
My 1994 dress had shoulder pads and was cream colour. Knee length. Some gauzy material.
The 30s, 50s and 00s dresses 😍
I love this!!!
2000’s really was something
Love the first one!
I did not attend prom in secondary school lol, but I definitely know we weren’t allowed high slight/cut-out dresses.
Yes i had that slip dress thing in 1998!
So much of this video is inaccurate - please do your research!!!!
there is no way anyone respectable in 1930 showed their shoulders! also no one wore wrist corsages til the 80s or 90s
Shoulders were not scandalous in the 1930s... more like early 1830s. nonetheless the dress was horribly inaccurate...
Wish we could go back to wearing ball gowns
wow tant de beautée ! Merci pour c'est belle découverte
These actually look like party city dresses. wtf
Fascinating video of our history
In the 80's it was more of a big full length skirt look. What they showed was more of a tacky bridesmaid dress than a prom dress. The girls wanted to be over the top! There was one girl who showed up in a short cocktail dress and I remeber thinking she was crazy because her dress just wasn't big enough.
Should do 100 years of shorts!
I bet they'd even mess that up
2010'S MADE ME LAUGH HAHA
I graduated in 2007 I had the sweetheart neckline tutu dress