Prom Roundup

High school proms didn't start showing up in yearbooks until the 1930s, but since then they have become one of the watermarks of a high school career. The dances started out as a blue-collar equivalent to debutante balls.

For some prom is a night of dancing under crepe paper carnations and a tin foil twirling disco ball; for others it's a more upscale todo with white table cloths and crystal at daddy's country club.

For almost everyone, prom is the first formal event of a young life. And when you're in the middle of it, you can feel as fashionable as any starlet on  a red carpet.

Sometimes, when you look back...well, not so much. Just for fun, check out an array of fashion crimes (thankfully of no one we know) here.

Thankfully there were no fashion misses at proms closer to home. Here's a roundup of the finery Patch photographers saw at dances in ours and surrounding Patches.

• About 690 Strongsville students danced the night away at Cleveland's Wolstein Center.
• Brecksville-Broadview Heights students got together at Embassy Suites in Independence
•  students went for glamour at their prom with the theme Hollywood Nights.
•  students at Theodore Roosevelt High School took the theme Carnevale.
• At Revere High School students stopped off at the high school auditorium for the pre-prom ritual promenade -- a photo op for parents and other well wishers.

Feeling brave? Post your vintage prom picture in the comments section.