American kids are terrible.

Here is a kid, 17-year-old Maura Pozek, who made a prom dress out of cardboard, and she looks amazing.

Actually, a lot of girls I knew scouted out prom dresses at the mall, and then went home and made the dresses themselves with some help from the artsy kids who knew how to sew. And I didn't go to a high school in a small town in the Midwest—I went to high school in the O.C. (yes, that O.C.).