This is the dress, Marcia’s dress for the school dance.
I was pretty obsessed with the dress. The dress was white lace with black buttons, a short black skirt and a hot pink sash. The color combo was very modern millie. I had never seen anything like it, it was dreamy and mod. I knew I
would never have a dress like that.
Marci is too preoccupied with her braces, and how her date Alan is going to react to her braces, to focus on how lucky she is to have this dress. I have thought about this dress for 30 years. At any point, I could whip out a pad and a pencil and do a police artist sketch of the dress at any time.
Some day, I am going to hire a seamstress to recreate the dress and wear it to a big Hollywood event. I’ll be the prettiest girl there. I’ll look “like a dream.”
Just like Marcia.
A Quick Preamble to The Dress:
Marcia gets braces and the whole family goes berserk.
Dad calls a family meeting about Marcia’s braces.
Cindy is instructed to ignore Marcia’s braces.
How much is Marcia expected to take?
Okay, on to the dress!
This is the store that sold Marcia the dress.
Alice is in charge of altering the dress while Marcia complains about her braces and wallows in self pity.
“How will Allan possibly want to dance with me with these braces”? (and my intolerable personality)?
Oh, Alice, how COULD you understand? (You’re a maid).
Poor Alice.
Jan think the dress is divine, but it isn’t enough for Marcia.
Marcia goes berserk on Alan, her really cute date for the dance.
Oh my God she’s a psycho!!
Marcia’s not comforted by the fact that Alice had braces. Why? Because Alice is an old maid of course
Finally, Alice decides to return the damn dress. Somehow, she is permitted to even after all that hemming.
Marcia has a full-on mental breakdown over her braces.
Alice checking out and sizing up the grocery delivery boy as a substitute for Alan…or Sam
“Ten bucks to take Marcia to the dance, big guy. You know how many pots I have to scrub for ten dollars”?
Gee whiz, ten dollars?! Thanks, Mammy!
The male prostitutes.
Is it just me or did Alice’s guy suddenly get really cute?
Smug Marcia before learning 2 family members and the family maid paid these guys to be there.
“How much are they paying you”?
The dance is a GO! Marcia, the braces, please.
Outta the way, I gotta get that fucking dress back!
Shut up, maid-lady. I am not interested in anything you have to say.
“She’s going to look like a dream!”
Marcia, the braces.
Alan you dreamboat.
Do not to open your mouth and ruin everything.
Whatthe? Can you say “something suddenly came up”?
The Brady family acts customarily weird, oogling Marcia and Alan’s every move.
After listening to the whining and the crying, and after doling out compliments and approbation,and after all the hemming and sewing and running back and forth to the dress shop, and after coughing up ten of her hard earned dollars, Alice has to watch from upstairs, peeking around the corner like a 19th century scullery maid afraid of being caught goofing off for fear of being beaten with a hairbrush.
Next month: A story of sex and betrayal in 90210, told only with the eyes.