#i just saw a video of a teenage girl with the rhinestone prada purse for her homecoming outfit

[adaine-party-wizard]

i am so like horribly morbidly fascinated with the american phenomenon of homecoming and the amount of proms and dresses. like in canada there’s a lot of bleed of cultural stuff from the states but we don’t have any of this to the extent you do. we have senior prom. i didn’t know homecoming was a thing until uni and that’s more like a drinking excuse. but seeing all of these gowns and the hair and the makeup and the shoes and the excess and i cannot help but think about the just massive financial cost or like burden of participating in this but also the social cost of not. you have the get a new dress and get all pretty for homecoming or else you’ll be socially ridiculed. same for prom. for like four years it seems. that’s so excessive. the pageantry the putting on just the excess of it all really. i hate it but i can’t look away i will never understand but i desperately want to i am horrified i am fascinated

#it evoke similar feelings to bama rush content or sorority content generally #like i can’t quite explain my thoughts on this but like i have so many #i just saw a video of a teenage girl with the rhinestone prada purse for her homecoming outfit #that’s thousands of dollars! for a cheeky homecoming accessory! #and i know im only seeing a small selection of curated idealized american white teenage girlhood #but like… just the wealth and the cost of it all #i grew up fairly wealthy like better off than a lot of my friends #but my mom would’ve never let this amount of excess fly #it just seems like so much