Since we went to an all-girls school, our dances were all Sadie-Hawkins style. We asked the boys, we paid for dinner, limo, whatever. This also opened up a lot of possibilities--you didn't have to wait to be asked, and you not only went to your own school dances, but those of whatever boys might ask you to theirs. As a result, I went to ten formals in four years. That's a lot of dresses and boutonnieres! As fifteen year olds, we started searching for Christmas Dance dates sometime before Thanksgiving. Not the best idea. Often, you'd ask a boyfriend, then break up with him before the dance. Nobody ever went stag to one of these things, to my recollection. So you either went to the dance with someone you despised, scrambled at the last minute for a date, or forfeited your bid money. (I have no idea why they called the dance tickets "bids".) I almost always earned the money for the tickets, boutonnieres, dinners, and transportation myself. My mom made most of my dresses, bought one or two, and I swapped the rest with friends. It seems most of the teenagers I know now don't earn their own money for this stuff. Am I wrong?
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