Junior Function is coming up, in fact it is this coming Saturday. It’s at the Ihilani all the way on the other side of the island. Apparently we have to catch a school bus to Function, which kind of makes me laugh. Just picturing all the girls in their dresses with all the boy in their nice clothes riding a school bus makes me laugh. I can’t believe it is in less than a week away. For some reason it always seemed like it was so far away especially because we bought our bids about a month ago. It’s our first formal dance and I must admit I’m pretty excited. Everyone is making such a big deal about Function.
As exciting as function sounds the down side to it is that it is pretty expensive just to go. I know its not prom (we have that to look forward to next year) but still when I look back on how much I spent on function stuff its pretty expensive, especially if you are a girl. First of all it costs $55 person just to go. Imagine if you had to pay for your date too. That totals up to $110 just to go. The pictures are also another added expense. But then there is the big stressful question, “What to wear?” I guess I was lucky because I bought my dress in January and found the perfect fit just by accident. However, a lot of my friends (girls) are stressing about their dress because they can’t find the perfect dress. Some of my friends have bought multiple dresses but they have yet to find “the dress” Also dresses are not cheap. My dress was about $115. That's actually pretty cheap in relationship to other dresses I looked at. In fact yesterday I went to the mall and I stopped into Betsy Johnson to look at some of their dresses. They have some really pretty dresses in there and I tired a few on. There was this one dress that I really liked. It was a beautiful teal color and it was a strapless beaded dress. I would have considered buying it if it was not so expensive. It was about 600 DOLLARS!!!!!! I couldn’t possibly image spending that much just for a dress to wear for one night. I think its pretty ridiculous how some girls spend that much on their prom dresses. I mean, after all it’s only a dance. After finding the perfect dress girls need to find the perfect shoes which is almost as hard as finding the dresses because it needs to match. Lucky for me my mom found my function shoes for only $30. Originally they were $116. Haha that costs more than my dress and because my shoes are red I wouldn’t have many other opportunities to wear them. That's a lot of money just for one night. I absolutely love my shoes. The only thing I’m worried about it that the heal is about 2 ½ - 3 inches tall and the heal is skinny. So after the dress and shoes are bought there are all the accessories to worry about. Because I did not want to waste any more money I decided to just use the jewelry and bag I already have but just imaging that would have been another easy 100 dollar down the drain. A lot of girls also pay to get their nails, hair and make up done. I am going to do my fingers and toes, which will cost me about another 60 dollars or so. I am also getting my hair cut on Thursday, which is another 30 dollars. When I look back on this I am putting/ have put so much effort into this one event its almost ridiculous. Let me see…hmm $115+$55+$30+$38+$30+$60 comes out to be $328. Wow that's a lot of money spent just for one night. Imagine what you could by with that money if you didn’t go to function. Let me see, I could by a new i-pod, a coach bag, a new set of jewelry, or a lot of other stuff.
What is it about prom that makes people willing to throw hundreds of dollars down the drain just to look beautiful for on night? Will we all remember this someday in the future? I understand that it's a once in a lifetime opportunity but seriously why do we have to pay so much just for one night of fun. Well function is less than a week away and hopefully it will be all worth it.
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