OAKLAND, Calif. Late last summer, about a month before she was to be a bridesmaid in a friends wedding in Hawaii, Deborah Lynn backed out. It wasnt so much from coldness in her feet as from the heat building up under her ruffled, pink-taffeta collar.
The pressure was piling on. Lynn, 50, of Discovery Bay, Calif., had already helped select, been fitted for, purchased and picked up her bridesmaid dress, booked the $3,000 airfare for the trip for her family, arranged to pull her special-needs son out of school for the September wedding, been to the lavish engagement party bearing a gift, been to a shower bearing a gift, planned to attend the bachelorette party bearing a gift and yet another girls day out to be held in Hawaii before the nuptials. She had just managed to squeeze in some of her own life doing volunteer work in Walnut Creek, Calif., when the bride-to-be called with yet another list of demands.

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Prom dress--think high school, not grown up. Cocktail dress--think for a grown up black tie type party.
Cocktail
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Prom dresses are usually long and low-cut, while cocktail party dresses are generally shorter, with a pattern, or decorative ribbon.
a prom dress is more formal. A cocktail dress can be formal too but can be a little sleezy whithout people caring
A cocktail dress is very simple and usually go no longer than the knee. A perfect example of a cocktail dress would be, of course, the little black dress.
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