First Formal

Pearly went to her first "formal" last week. The high school volleyball team traditionally has a formal where the girls put on their formal attire and go to someone's house for a very nice dinner. Two of their male friends from the high school basketball team were dressed in black slacks, white shirt, and black bow tie and served them their meal. What a fun tradition. What I liked about it is that it didn't have the same kind of pressure I had when I was a kid. These girls were happy to borrow each other's old formal dresses and didn't care that their dress was not brand new. Boy, there was so much pressure for having name-brand labels, brand new, etc, when I was a teen. Pearly wore big sister's formal and it was a perfect fit :)