Primping for the prom Student-made dresses highlight 2004 prom.(Neighbor)

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), April, 2004 by Malone, Tara

Byline: Tara Malone Daily Herald Staff Writer Ask just about any red-blooded American teen what spring means to them, and you'll hear the same answer. Prom. Prom is no longer a sweet, simple dance that requires a week of planning. With dinner reservations to be made, dresses to be bought, post-prom parties to be planned and perhaps a limousine ride to be booked, proms now entail weeks, even months, of planning.

Spring sounds the alarm to jump-start prom planning. So, some 60 Elgin High School students modeled the latest styles of prom dresses and tuxedos during the ...