Prom Dress That Wasn't Deemed as Cool as Maura's Cardboard One

A sparkly-looking Confederate evening dress, that was banned from a school prom in Tennessee earlier this month, brought to mind that upbeat, cheeky song by Gretchen Wilson, "Redneck Woman."

In other words, there's a type of southern culture, in the US of A, that the powers-that-be want to airbrush out of the collective consciousness.

A legal scholar weighs in on this silly fracas.



Texanna Edwards (tastefully) has a teen rebel moment. School officials deemed her flag dress "inappropriate" and "offensive."