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PASTEL SWEET

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A prom dress is like the wedding gown of high school girls. Some take months planning what to wear in this momentous evening, also considered a rite of passage.

 

Photo by Ayie Hernandez

 

Photo by Ayie Hernandez

 

The prom season is usually frolicking in pastel confection of poufy and satiny cloth, sashaying the halls of a dreamy ballroom. Young girls in soft, sorbet-hued layered dresses are always a delightful sight, like seeing a modern Marie Antoinette swarmed in macarons and other French pastries.

 

Photo by Ayie Hernandez

 

Pastels are usually the main choice for prom as they are the colors that enhance, accentuate, and add a romantic appeal to the youthful glow on teens.

 

Photo by Ayie Hernandez

 

Photo by Ayie Hernandez

 

Just like the joy in every cake slice, pretty pastels also bring us back to the divine sweetness of our youth — back in the carefree days when calories didn’t figure. While prom fashion has gotten a bit sexier nowadays, with skirt lengths cut right at the knee, most designers have maintained the dainty take by frosting on cotton candy shades with semi-precious stones, floaty feathers, lace, floral applique and other ultra-feminine broderie.

 

Photo by Ayie Hernandez

(Fashion Editorial)

Photographer: Ayie Hernandez
HMUA: Melody Ross Tinoy
Model: Queenn Amora
Location: Artisan Design Studio
Clothes: Kasuotan by Erwin Lee Tan
Cakes from BluGre, Osvaldo’s, Lachi’s, Tiny Kitchen, and Miss Vanilla.

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Fashion editorial published in Edge Davao newspaper.
A1 and A4, INdulge section, Vol. 5 Issue 237, February 1-2, 2013.

 

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Meg Hernandez

Wife, mom, lifestyle columnist and blogger, craft enthusiast, and marketing and communications practitioner based in the Philippines.