School warns girls not to wear midriff-baring dresses to prom.(News)

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), May, 2000 by Cummings, Leslie

When Lake Park High School social worker Vicky Threlkeld opened Seventeen magazine a few weeks ago, what she saw put her and other school officials on alert. The magazine featured prom dresses - many of them sans material around the navel. "They were like bathing suit tops with a long skirt," said Threlkeld, also the school's prom sponsor.

The school immediately sent home a letter telling students and parents no midriff-baring dresses would be allowed at the school's May 13 prom. That did not go over well with many students who think administrators are making a ...