Teen Kicked Out of Prom for 'Revealing' Prom Dress, But Is It? Watch

Mireya Briceno was kicked out of her prom for wearing this dress. Do you think it’s too revealing? (Screenshot and video via WXMI-TV)

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Is this polka-dotted prom dress with cap sleeves and an open back too risqué and revealing?

Yes, according to officials at a Michigan high school who kicked Mireya Briceno out of her senior prom last weekend, WXMI-TV reports.

The Muskegon High School policy for prom dresses, in place for about five years, prohibits any that show the midriff, including those that expose it through sheer fabric.

Connie Briceno, of Muskegon, said she and her daughter went through the rules, and thought the $300 dress met the policy.

“When you look in the mirror, there should be no skin showing around the midriff area,” she told the TV station. “When her arms were down, you couldn’t see any skin.”

So off to the prom Mireya went.

“I felt she was classy and elegant,” Connie Briceno told The Muskegon Chronicle/MLive.com. “She was perfect.”

When school officials asked Mireya to stand up and twirl around, “they simply told her, ‘You’re in violation. You need to go home,’” said Connie Briceno.

Her daughter left the prom without incident.

“She called me from the parking lot,” Connie Briceno said. “She got in her car and started crying.”

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Muskegon High School Principal Brad Perkins said two other girls were sent home for wearing dresses that violated the policy, but returned in dresses that didn’t violate the policy.

“I feel bad (Mireya) wasn’t able to make it back into the prom,” he told The Muskegon Chronicle.

Perkins said students are well aware of the rules. A video explaining them played on a continuous loop in the media center and his office in the days leading up to the prom, and students were required to sign a form acknowledging they understood the rules before purchasing prom tickets.

LET’S TALK ABOUT THIS:

• Do you think this dress is too revealing? What rules – if any – should govern what girls wear to prom? Do you have any other concerns about such policies?

Perkins declined to comment on photos that reportedly showed girls who were allowed to stay in dresses that exposed their midriffs, the TV station said.

“What would be the purpose of looking in the past?” he said, adding that he stands behind the policy.

Mireya will go to her boyfriend’s prom at Reeths-Puffer High School, also in Muskegon, on May 9, but she will wear a different dress.