What do teen boys wear to homecoming dance?

Around here they wear dress pants & shoes and a shirt & tie. The tie usually matches his date's dress.

Some boys wear a suit (ds included), some wear shirt and tie, or shirt, vest, and tie. The girls go all out dressy. The one look I really don't like is dress shirt and bow tie - with the vest, it's ok, but without the vest or suit coat, it looks weird to me.

At our school as of two years ago, boys generally wore nice slacks and a button down shirt, sometimes with a tie, sometimes not. There was a wide range and there were even some that wore nice jeans, nice shirts but no sneakers were allowed. I don't know if the rules were relaxed to allow more participants or not. Our school was literally the melting pot of Denver schools with 65 countries represented and a lot of kids that were below the poverty level. You would hate to punish the students who couldn't afford the nicer clothes. Then again, based on the total number of students, the attendance would be considered low.

I will say that I am happy to have a boy, although we don't come from a wealthy area, so the girls are pretty good about keeping the dress costs low, I think.