As difficult as it may be to accept, it is a fact that not everyone has the body to wear a dress with a shiny fabric and sequins. Though it may look good on the rack at the store, it may not look good on you. Although someone who is trim can wear one of the shiny fabrics as well as a straight gown or dress, someone with extra weight may look like a balloon in either of these styles. Thus wearing shiny fabrics with sequins will draw attention to your body rather than to your face, so you want to choose one or the other but not both. If you want a dress or gown with sequins, choose something of a different fabric that has sequins or wear a dress without the sequins.

If you want to look good at your prom you want to choose fabrics and styles that make complement your body type and facial features. In addition, you want to choose colors that enhance your best features. Choosing a dress just because you like it with no regard to how it looks on you will take away from your natural beauty and make you stand out in the crowd in a negative way. What you want to do is accent your positive features and downplays your negative ones in a subtle way.

The choice of fabric for your dress should also take into consideration what other people may be wearing. With toe variation in prom attire in the 21st century, you want to make certain you are not the only one wearing an elaborately decorated dress. While ankle length or cocktail length dresses used to be the normal faire of the day for proms, today you may even find students coming in wearing something they would wear to church or to an office job - sometimes even jeans are tee-shirts are observed. You do not want to choose an eloquently styled dress if others are wearing something less formal.

The key to looking good at your prom is choosing fabrics that will accentuate the shape of your body and face. Not everyone has the body to wear a shiny fabric with sequins just like not everyone has the body to wear a gown that is completely straight. The choices you make will determine if you looking stunning or drab at your prom, so you want to make sure you give a great deal of thought to the fabric, styling and color of the dress you choose. Whether you choose ankle length or knee length, you want something that looks stunning when you walk into the room.