Teenagers get ‘dolled up’ as Barbies for school prom

Earlier this week it emerged that another pair of 16-year-olds, Chloe Webb and Lauren Huggett, had stunned classmates by turning up for their school prom in Gloucester in a helicopter.

Two 16-year-old girls have become the latest to steal the show at their school prom by coming up with an extravagant way to arrive at the event – when they dressed up as Barbie dolls and turned up inside life-size box packaging.plus size wedding dresses


On the big night last Thursday the boxes were loaded onto a flat-bed trailer and the pals climbed inside their boxes for a tour of Crewkerne to cheers from amazed on-lookers.

Instead of hiring a limousine, best friends Emily Pounde and Hannah Jagger, both 16, were encased in plywood and perspex boxes complete with Mattel branding and travelled to there on a flat-bed trailer.

Emily and Hannah came up with the idea in a bid to stand out from their classmates at Wadham School in Crewkerne, Somerset.
Emily said: “Hannah and I thought of the idea together and it suddenly became reality when mum liked it too. We wanted to do something different and I really loved Barbies when I was little. Green One Shoulder Flowing Prom Dress

“It is something I will never forget, the further we got into the car park the more people stopped and noticed. Suddenly everybody surrounded us and took photos, I came out of the box shaking, so many people were taking pictures.

“It was like being famous, although I’m not sure I’d want to do it again – maybe if people take less photographs then I would, I didn’t know where to look!”


They kept their outfits secret, telling friends and teachers they were turning up in a taxi or by a parent’s car

They then stole the show when they arrived at Haselbury Mill, the country house venue of their prom where their Year 11 friends were waiting.

Emily said: “All the teachers and our friends kept saying how brilliant it was, the amount of attention was amazing. A lot of people kept coming up to me and Hannah all night saying that it was a brilliant idea and the best thing they’ve ever seen.”

The 6ft x 2ft boxes, hand-painted with flowers and decorated with battery-powered fairy lights, were created over two days by Emily’s mother Christine, 39, who spent £250 on materials.