Quaranteen Submission: Prom 2020-What We Would Have Worn

Since our prom was cancelled due to COVID-19, many students were sad to miss out on such an iconic high school event. In the days leading up to our school’s closure, people were talking about their plans for what they would wear to prom, and some had already bought their outfits. C Magazine usually has a visual lookbook spread at the beginning of each issue. For this issue, I had the idea to give people a chance to feature the prom outfits they had gotten. In “Prom 2020: What We Would’ve Worn,” juniors and seniors experienced at least part of the joys of prom, which is dressing up and taking pictures. So, I reached out to people who I knew already bought their prom outfits, and they told me about others who would also be eager to be featured. Soon enough, there was so much interest to be part of the prom lookbook that I, upon discussing with the other editors, had decided to expand this lookbook to two spreads. Over the course of a week, people sent in their photos to me; some were goofy and some were glammed up, but everyone seemed to be having fun. This piece was published and distributed to every Paly student on April 23, near the date of our cancelled prom. The lookbook is also available on Issuu at: https://issuu.com/c_magazine/docs/vol8_issue5/6 and C Magazine’s website https://cmagazine.org/culture/prom-2020-what-we-wouldve-worn/.

By Ashley Guo