And that's all you're going to get from me, except that what occurred wasn't what you're thinking. I've been fascinated by proms ever since. Prom formality waned in the 1970s and early 1980s. But it has rebounded with a vengeance. Prom-nighters carry on with a degree of sophistication exceeding that of some weddings I've heard about.
Limousines are almost essential, for example.
And well they should. The key to a great prom night is knowing how to pull off all the rituals of the adult good life. Having that ability has so much currency these days, in fact, that even the restaurants have joined in, offering special dinner packages to prom-nighters. I wish I'd had such resources when it was my turn. The only good source of advice was my best friend Bill McCarthy, but he was busy figuring out which four of the fantastic girls that swarmed around him he was going to cross of his list of potential prom dates, and how he would do that without losing them from his regular date list.