Sunshine Coast high school formals 2024 photo gallery guide
Thousands of Sunshine Coast students have celebrated their 2024 formals, with special moments captured on camera, and a formals season stalwart has revealed fashion forward choices and an emerging faux pas for future graduates.
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The Sunshine Coast’s Year 12 graduates turned out this year dressed to the nines to celebrate their achievements.
Thousands of students, supported by their family and friends, gathered at venues across the coast making for a diverse and colourful formals season.
From limousines to tractors to sports cars and even wheelbarrows, entrances were made in spectacular style.
Angels Formal Wear owner Patricia Thew said the 2024 formal season was “busier than she’d ever been” managing the demand for dresses and gowns.
She noticed that the most popular style by far was the fitted straight dresses.
“The girls seemed to prefer that style as opposed to the more classic princess gown,” Ms Thew said.
“Red in all its shades was the most popular colour overall, although pastels such as baby blue, lemon and sage were also in demand.
“They all liked solid colours, it jumped between your plain satin dress, to the glitter fabrics, which was really popular in different colours and ones with beading up the top of the bodice with plain satin bottoms.”
Ms Thew said this year, many students were selecting their dresses further in advance.
“They all have social pages at school where they post their dresses so they don’t have the same dress,” she said.
“It’s a big taboo now that people can’t wear the same dress.
“That’s why I keep a register of all the dresses sold or hired to each school.
“They do have the option of picking the same dress in a different colour but they pretty much all want different dresses.”
Year 11 students are even thinking ahead as some schools have moved their formal dates to earlier in the year.
“I’m already starting to get girls coming in to pick out dresses for next year, so they can get it before anyone else, put it up on the school dress page and it’s locked in and theirs,” Ms Thew said.
As for the young men, suits and ties were still the vibe.
See the best moments from the formals captured in pictures for the Sunshine Coast Daily photo galleries:
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