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Thankfully I've never lived anywhere where prom night is a thing. I can't imagine the stress of "keeping up". It was bad enough having the high school "cool kids" cults; amplifying it would be a nightmare.
It's a night of leisure, the only "work" parts of it is trying to find clothes and a companion. Unless I misunderstand.
The "work" part of it is the stressing over clothing, your date, etc. beforehand. The poor kid trying to figure out how not to look poor at the prom. The fringe kid who's pretty much guaranteed to be going dateless if at all and laughed at for it. I suspect if you've never been in an outside group (and I always have been because I've always been racially an outsider and literally an outsider because of frequent moving) you won't have any idea what I'm talking about.
I'm just very thankful that in all my moving, I never moved anywhere where "prom" was a thing.