People from all over the country, as well as a Hollywood marketing firm and a prom dress company in New England, contributed gowns to the event, held in a neighborhood devastated by flooding.

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Its technology vaporizes germanium sulfide and cools it into 20-30 nanometer layers that, as they're combined, turn into nanoflowers: elegant structures that might look like the carnation on a prom dress or tuxedo, but are really energy storage cells with much more capacity than traditional cells occupying the same area.

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At the 85th Academy Awards, Jennifer Lawrence transformed herself into a Parisian Prom Queen when she chose a strapless Dior Haute Couture dress.

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Cedartown High took steps to create a dress code, with input from the prom committee made up of teachers and students, after two girls wore revealing gowns to the homecoming-court presentation last fall.

WSJ: High Schools Have Dress Codes for Prom Gowns

Morris, 64, wore a yellow dress with long white gloves to her high school prom in 1967, colorful dresses in the late 1960s weren't too appealing to her.

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Girls, instead of buying a pricey dress you may never wear again, take a page from your prom date and try a rental.

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For prom, students have to sign a document acknowledging they will abide by the dress code or be turned away at the door.

WSJ: High Schools Have Dress Codes for Prom Gowns