What did you wear under your High School graduation gown?

[maveric]

I wore Jeans, platform shoes and a long sleeve,embroidered V-neck, 70's hippie shirt.
SHS 1974

[fleabert]

1. a god awful Laura Ashley dress and white flats with a bow on the toe!

:puke: what the hell I was thinking, I have no idea.

[GalleryGod]

13. That's OK, Fleabert. We ALL have been ticketed by the Fashion police!

Gotta tell you though, I just betcha you were as cute as a button!?:loveya:

[Hatalles]

2. Dress pants, yes. But...

I wore a white polo under my gown -- only it wasn't a polo, it was some cheap collared shirt with "Florida" on it. My Dad had picked it up during a business vacation.

[Scooter24]

3. Jacket, tie, slacks

for my grad ceremony, no gown. Girls in white dresses. I also went to a private school.

[CO Liberal]

23. Same Here

It was required when I graduated from Morristown High School in Morristown, NJ in 1971.

[Huckebein the Raven]

4. Dress shirt and Tie

and Dress slacks. Went to a private school that had a uniform code.

[Huckebein the Raven]

5. dupe

[NightTrain]

6. Cut-offs and a T-shirt. It was brutally hot and humid that day!

Class of 1984

[xmas74]

7. I looked pretty normal

black dress and pumps w/ stocking. My best friend wore a merry widow under hers-and stilleto heels.

[jdots]

8. scuba gear and a fiberglass speedo

why not ? It was 98 degrees and 700% humidity and some senile old anthropop spoke for about 5 hours.

[khashka]

9. Jockey shorts

and bondage cuffs.

I was THAT kinda kid.

Khash.

[tjwmason]

16. Sounds damn hot n/t

[SmileyBoy]

10. 95 degrees in the gym, no AC, and I wore a fucking BUSINESS SUIT.

I was the only student around who didn't dress casual. I had taken my tie off, put it in my pocket, loosened my belt, tied my jacket around my waist, and I was still hot as hell.

And BTW, my graduating class was the LAST one to graduate before the school recieved air conditioning. It was 95 degrees and SWELTERING in that gymnasium.

[Amfortas]

11. It was 1000000 degrees , and freezing ......

with 2000% humidity , scorching dry air , 1000 knot winds , 3 hurricanes and four tornados , and everyone had the plague ... so I died and was then resurrected . other than that pretty normal day .

[Bzzzz]

12. I was 9 months pregnant...

and not allowed to graduate with the class. I was made to graduate in the principal's office, as to not embarrass anyone. I wasn't allowed to wear a cap and gown. ;(

[maveric]

22. Thats fucked up Bzzzz!

Was this during the 60's? If you dont mind my asking.

[Bzzzz]

34. 1977...

My father was even on the school board and sat on the stage handing out diploma's to all the others in my class. I had to graduate before the ceremony began and couldn't even sit with the class. I was in the bleachers with the audience. :(

[GalleryGod]

14. That outfit is authentic, my man! I remember it well!

:pals: thanks for the =Flashback, Mav!:yourock:

[yvr girl]

15. An equivalent to a 'prom dress'

We don't have "Proms" in BC. (We have school dances, but they're not formal, and they're for the whole school.)

We do have a "Grad Dance" which is formal and for the grade 12's and guests only. The dance was after the ceremony. It makes for a very long night. I think the dance didn't start till 10 or 11 at night.

As for the outfit full length aqua off the shoulder gown. My shoes matched PERFECTLY but they were 1/2 a size to small. Boy did I regret that decision.

[fluffernutter]

17. short skirt, button up shirt, no nylons and candies.

[tjwmason]

18. No school graduation in England

I collected my 'A' Level certificates during the Christmas vacation from uni. I just wore normal clothes and utterly bemused the secretaries because I also had to collect the Russian prize, which I had won but could not attend the formal prize giving ceremony.

Also passed a few younger boys (single-sex school) with whom I had had a hate-hate relationship whilst I was the prefect patrolling their block during lunch-times - absence did not make the heart grow fonder in that case.

[immoderate]

19. At Brooklyn Tech, in the sixties...

No gowns. We were told to wear dark suits (no girls then, either.) And a red carnation, which we all tossed in the air at the end. Then we all marched out to the playing pf the Marines Hymn, which we were told not to sing, so we sang it and thought that was rebellious.

--IMM

[maveric]

21. One girl in my class wore a bikini under hers.

To the horror of her parents in Salem NH.

[immoderate]

33. Salem, eh? LOL

--IMM

[gollygee]

20. a light gray dress

the gown was white so I had to wear something that wouldn't show through.

[Modem Butterfly]

24. Not a damn thing

I went starkers under my gown. I didn't even wear a bra.

[AwakeAtLast]

25. I wore a comfortable cotton jersey dress

and white shoes. The only requirement for girls was to wear white shoes. I think the color of the dress was a peachy-pink.

Wish I could still wear it! ;)

[Stop_the_War]

26. nothing

:silly:

[tjwmason]

32. We don't have school graduations

But at university ones the gown is open at the front.

That would have taken some guts over here.

[jjmalonejr]

27. Dress pants, dress shirt, tie.

That was the dress code at my all-male Catholic prep school.

[SuperWonk]

28. re:

We didn't wear cap and gowns...
The girls wore white dresses, and the guys wore white dinner jackets.

[jjmalonejr]

30. Yikes

We wore caps and gowns.

What does re: mean

On edit: oh, it means subject. Odd thing to put in the subject line. Kind of redundant, isn't it?

[maveric]

31. I went to a fairly liberal HS in southern NH. We had no dress code. 1974

Long hair, facial hair, pregnant girls....anything went back then.

[Reverend_Smitty]

29. We were REQUIRED to wear a dress...

women could not wear pants, plus it had to be a white or a very light colored dress because our graduation gowns were white. They threatened to send us home if we were not dressed appropriately. They wouldn't give my friend his diploma for a few days after graduation because he showed up in sneakers! Assholes till the end...and I went to a public school and graduated in 2002!

[yellowdogintexas]

35. a full slip, the usual other normal female undergarments, and

stockings.

It was 105 at least in that gym, so most of the women dressed down. I think I may have done the same thing for college graduation too.

[MrScorpio]

36. A suit

It was a formal occasion