According to Answers.com, the prom is alleged to be "an important lesson in social skills, especially in a theoretically classless society that valued behavior over breeding."[1] There appears to be nothing stated in the article that restricts proms to those who have dates, however, the inclusion of young boys and girls without dates often results in emotional scars. Boys and girls who are left out of the prom because they cannot match the wealth, beauty, and/or social connections, may be left to wonder forever what their lives may be like today had they attended.
The prom seems to set the boundary between the "haves and the have-nots," emboldening a class system based on emblems and rituals, but in reality it serves the major fashion industries to acquire that which from a fool is frequently parted, money.
1. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_did_the_tradition_of_high_school_proms_start
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