The Prom Dress Everyone Was Obsessed With the Year You Were Born

You're looking at the go-to dress style in the early '70s. Bonus points if your dress had a different fabric on the top and bottom.

Jersey material + barely-there straps = prom queen status. Spoiler alert: This one comes back around in a few decades.

We see you, folksy trim on a ruffled sleeve. Girls found clever ways to work in peasant details during this very special time.

The high-neck, long-sleeve look of the mid-'70s was the only way to embrace your inner flower child on prom night.

Things might not have ended well on prom night for Carrie, but the dress Sissy Spacek wore was right on par with trends of the time.

Whether you wore head-to-toe buttercup yellow or peachy pink was up to you.

The peasant trend of the '70s meant that eyelet lace was a go-to fabric for prom dresses. Rustic glam, I guess?

If you wanted to be the epitome of style and sophistication in the late '70s, you channeled Studio 54. As in, you wore a sleek halter style on prom night, and your date wore bell bottoms.

Entering the '80s, we started to see that bigger was better—and this meant sleeves started growing a few inches upward.

Tulle, tulle...and more tulle. The more layers, the better. And a high side pony was appropriate formal hair, apparently.

A big bow was essentially a requirement for all prom looks in the early '80s, whether it was on your bustle or in your hair.

The most common prom style throughout the '80s was a drop waist dress that gave way to a billowing skirt. Don't ask us why tho, because agreed, it wasn't always the most flattering.

Ruffles became big—no pun intended—during the mid-'80s, because, say it with us, bigger is better!

'80s fashion was all about accessories, and by far, the most popular addition to any prom dress were sheer lace gloves.

Outfit coordination reached a new level in the '80s. We dig it.

In the late '80s, girls started opting for shorter styles—and the oh-so-popular bubble dress was born.

Shiny, shimmery fabrics were *very* '80s. These dresses definitely made it harder for your date to lose you on the dance floor.

All. the. rage. Bonus points if they happened to be worn with white tights and flats.