iowgirl
Pearl Clutcher
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Post by iowgirl on Dec 8, 2023 19:50:45 GMT
I didn't even know they still did tux and drapes. In fact, I never heard of it until I lived in Tennessee where they did it (in the 80s). When I moved to Missouri, no one even heard of tux/drapes. We just used our senior picture that the school set up.. Josten's or whoever. It wasn't a thing yet to do independent pictures. I was always kinda sad that I moved and didn't get to do the drape thing. Those pics always looked so grown up. lol I haven't seen those types of Senior pictures in years. Everyone does their own thing now. But I had mine taken in a drape. It was funny because one of my sisters is 18 years older than me, and I came along a lot later than everyone else - but all our Senior pictures match! We all used the exact same photographer and same drape, I'm sure! But the pictures on my Mom's wall of us all matched, even though the first was taken in 1965 and the last was 1983! |
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Post by Susie_Homemaker on Dec 8, 2023 20:17:22 GMT
iowgirl Our DDs graduated in 2014 & 2018 and they both did drape photos the summer before their senior year. That's what is in their yearbooks. I did not want to pay a photographer to take the other style photo, out at a park in our case, so I did it myself. They turned out pretty well and everyone was happy with them.
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used2scrap
Drama Llama
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Post by used2scrap on Dec 10, 2023 3:40:55 GMT
I’d get the ad but probably it’s because it means far more to me than my kids! (Two in college and only one left in high school who cares about nothing traditional high school 😬).
My dd’s sr pic three years ago was drape and ds 5 years ago tux. The south; their school still puts up a picture of each graduating member of the class in the halls. Small school; old school.
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Post by ~KellyAnn~ on Dec 10, 2023 5:23:09 GMT
I'd have been upset for life, but it was more important to people then. We have had regular reunions so I'd have been reminded of my own irresponsibility every 5-10 years. It was important enough to me to get myself to my senior appointment the summer before. I wouldn't have dreamed of asking my mom to sort it out if I screwed it up and she certainly wouldn't have bought an ad just because I was irresponsible. Not sure when it changed to independent, on location photo shoots with multiple wardrobe changes. When professional photographers realized that senior portraits could be an additional revenue stream. About 20 years ago, I worked for another photographer shooting and doing tech stuff. A Minnesota photographer named Fuzzy Dunkel did presentations about his senior portrait business at Professional Photographers of America conventions in a lot of states, including ours. His work was excellent and his business model was sound so on-location senior portraiture took off. You're welcome for the history lesson. Wow, reading comments and saw that you mentioned Al “Fuzzy” Duenkel. He was the premier portrait photographer in our area, and well known among professional photographers. Fuzzy is actually from Wisconsin - the Barton/West Bend area. My kids didn’t have their senior pictures taken by him because of the cost (investment). I would have been so disappointed if their photos weren’t in the yearbook. |
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Post by hosschick on Dec 10, 2023 13:00:38 GMT
I did miss my school's deadline and was indeed omitted from the yearbook. I'm not sure if I just wasn't paying attention to the deadline or if I had my pictures done too late or what, but I know I tried turning it in and was rejected as too late.
I was annoyed at the time; I could've lived without the pic but was surprised to have my name & clubs omitted as well (back then, I remember seeing other yearbooks where they included that stuff for people not pictured).
Anyway, I saved my parents a few bucks by not buying a yearbook I wasn't in. I got over it pretty quickly and never gave it much thought afterwards. Ads from parents weren't very common in my area and, cost aside, I would've been embarrassed by one at that age.
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Post by peasapie on Dec 10, 2023 13:09:26 GMT
If she cares, she should contact yearbook adviser to see if she can get it in. There might still be time.
In either case this is all up to her, not you. Accountability starts long before senior year.
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Post by littlemama on Dec 10, 2023 13:33:28 GMT
Our high school has a picture day for seniors just like the rest of the students so they are included no matter what. I don’t understand why more schools don’t do this. I would think if a student doesn't submit their own picture, then the one taken for their student ID would be used. |
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