It’s The Most Ratchet Time of the Year: The Ugliest Prom Dresses of All Time

May 2nd, 2012 - By IndigoBlack

I’ll never forget when I went to prom with my dad. Well, let me clear that up, he was just a chaperone and asked both my sister and I to come along to keep him company. He had never attended a prom and didn’t know what to expect. It should have been the norm: colorful dresses, happy teenagers letting loose and so on and so forth. But no, it was a hot ratchet mess. In this particular side of this particular part of this particular city, a majority of the students had their dresses made. You know a homemade prom dress when you see it–there’s less material to it. When the kids walked in the door, every piece of skin you could think of was out, the materials were hideous, and the guys were wearing hats with wrist watches on them…don’t ask. Yes, ratchet prom attire is becoming as American as apple pie, and to keep your child from going that route, have them look at this gallery. If not, good luck.

The “Where Are Your Damn Clothes” Dresses

Source: justelite.net

Source: ebaumsworld.com

Source: http://www.ghettoredhot.com

Blame it on a school where students have to wear uniforms all year long, or just society’s lack of appreciation for clothing, but more and more young ladies are showing up thinking these kinds of dresses are hot. All you have to do is make an outfit and use the extra material…as the dress. If we can’t see all thigh, your entire stomach and the top and sides of your breasts, then you’re not committed to looking as ratchet as possible.

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  • The Truth

    Question….where are their mothers?????!!!!!! Okay, but now do you see what is wrong with our loose black women…their loose black mothers!!! Get it together for the sake of our people, please!!!

  • Ladyspencer

    Don’t want to sound too rough, but I picture these photo are taken down south somewhere. Like in the small towns of Georgia, Florida, Louisiana…… Like where did these fashion statements come from? Sure not from LA or New York.

  • Ladyspencer

    Don’t want to sound too rough, but I picture these photo are taken down south somewhere. Like in the small towns of Georgia, Florida, Louisiana…… Like where did these fashion statements come from? Sure not from LA or New York.

  • NicciNic

    I’m glad my school enforced dress code and I didn’t graduate too long ago. They will STILL send you home for wearing something like any of this smh.

  • NicciNic

    I’m glad my school enforced dress code and I didn’t graduate too long ago. They will STILL send you home for wearing something like any of this smh.

  • NICK O’PLEECE

    I’m not falling for this hoax.  Y’all need to stop playin’.

  • Mskathy0724

    Some of these photos are quite old and have been on the Internet for a few years. I received them in an email at least  years ago. There is also a site that posts them. To be fair,besides the Hot Ghetto Mess site there are sites where you can see trailer park proms and country proms also. Often the kids don’t know better so what we did at one of the high schools I serviced was to set guidelines and place posters all over the school with photos from catalogs of what was appropriate and what was not appropriate.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/KNKEFV5DWQNZIO43A6L43HH7OI Yvette

    (Literally) So painful to watch!  Why? (in my sobbing voice)  Why, so ghetto?

  • ms.lisa

    i graduated high school 5 years ago and my prom was nothing like this. i guess it was in certain cities, which ones i would like 2 kno!

  • We are making them richer

    Well there does seem to be a shortage of good parenting now-a-days. Typically before prom the girls take pics at home right? 

  • Klynnfun

    I know this is a black magazine, but you really did not have to go there. IJS/ SMH; although all the kids these days are on some kind of trip.  WE all need prayer.

  • Ace of Spades

    half of these are probably from chicago..they LOVE that silky silky material & get reallllllllllllllly “creative” with it

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Allegra-Williams/100003060252709 Allegra Williams

    The only word I can come up with is Garish.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Allegra-Williams/100003060252709 Allegra Williams

    Are there any more kids these days!!!

  • NarutoFriendOmoi

    White girl looked great and some of the others.

  • Gimmeabreak78

    All of these outfits look like someone dared these young people to wear them in public.  The thought that these poor kids traipsed around their houses wearing these ghastly get-ups, and no one in their households loved them enough to tell them they looked like something out of a cartoon is almost too much to bear.  I would hope that if I were misfortunate enough to be a pregnant teen headed to prom, my mother (if no one else) would be kind enough to let me know that a cutout dress baring my very pregnant belly is not the photo I want immortalized in my prom/yearbook pictures. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LKQE4UQRBBVNOIRAL4EB2SPCWI Jen

    Did anyone notice on frame #3 how her feet must have been hurting?  Her shoes aren’t on.  They are going to look back at this and go “WHAT IN THE HELL WAS I THINKING ABOUT?” Nah nevermind they won’t.
    All of them should have been banished to the backyard!

  • Kandi

    Wow! This was shocking, I didn’t even realize that people went out like this, let alone to the prom.  I must admit, I thought I would find at least one dress that I liked or that was over-exaggerated as ugly, but I really couldn’t! All of these dresses were hideous and the men looked like complete fools. Sad

  • Peachycakes82

    If any fathers were present before this horrific act with down & allowed it…PLEASE KILL YOURSELF!

  • sam

    It’s the end of days….

    • LUVBNBLK

      Nah, just the end of good fashion :)

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