This High School Student Made Her Own Prom Dress From Scratch and Left Her Classmates Stunned

17-year-old Ciara Gan from the Philippines was in quite a pickle. She needed a gown for the prom, but didn’t have one. Then, inspiration struck, and she combined her love for arts and crafts with her eye for fashion to create her very own graduation ball dress, and netizens went crazy over it!

Everyone Has Expectations About Prom

There’s one thing that hasn’t changed since the first senior prom ever, and that’s everyone’s expectations. Students want their prom to be the most memorable event of their lives, and 17-year-old Ciara Gan was no exception.

She Asked for Help With Her Prom Dress

Going to prom is expensive. There are tons of things like limos, corsages, and the oh-so-important prom dress that are just so pricey. But Gan, who lives in Taguig City in the Philippines, wanted her big night to be perfect. So she turned to a seamstress to design a dress for her in January 2019.

But then, she wished she hadn’t.

They Didn’t Like How the Dress Turned Out

Gan and her mother Maricel reached out to someone to make the gown for her, but the dress didn’t turn out the way either of them had envisioned it. So, they decided to try a different approach that would end up making Gan internet famous.

They Decided to Do It Themselves

Instead of hiring someone else to make her gown, Gan and her mother decided to do it themselves. They started from scratch and had their work cut out for them. But it wasn’t the first time Gan had worked on a prom dress.