July 29, 2025 • 5 mins
A new school formal trend is emerging across schools, and it could end up costing some parents a fortune!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Fits In with Kate Richie podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I'm just trying to find a fun out of me
at my formal bloody funny guys.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
I hide a suit from.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Ferrari Formal Wear and I tell you what, I had
a cumba bun on.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
I don't laugh, Jess, because this is actually.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Just the one wore a cumber bun mate.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Because what is it now?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
We are in We're just coming into August now, so
girls will be getting their dresses ready for the former
one and it will be all they're talking about fits
every lunch time.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
They'll be sitting down in a group. Who are you taking?
What are you wearing? Hair up, hair down, corsage?
Speaker 5 (00:40):
Not very exciting times.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Sorry, isn't it interesting to Jess that guys don't give
us stuff if the guy next to them was wearing
the same thing. Naturally they do because it'll be a suit.
But the pressure of girls going, I'm wearing that now,
I chose that first.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
You can't totally and they'll often do a quick little
you know, you'll show people what you've got, so you
don't want to double up.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
That's yeah, you don't want that to happen.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
It's terrible news.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Okay, So there's a trend that's happening at the moment
that I didn't know about that. But kids are rocking
up to their formals in hotted up cars and old cars.
Have a listened to this. This is up in, this
is up in Kenes, but this is a formal. Have
a listen to the kids getting excited when all their
mates are rocking up in their cars. Oh, no, fourteen,
(01:43):
what did you rock up to your formal in? Because
you know what, I fell off the back of a
ute formal, yeah, which is highly illegal.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
We're in the back of the tray.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
There was six of us in the back of the
tray and there was a little makeshift seat, I remember,
and we were so excited and one of the dads
just went a little bit too quick over a speed
hump as we were coming into the function center and
I've flicked off the back and after I've I've had
a cutler.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Your cumber bund.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I had had a bit of pre mix on me
as well. So I've fallen off the back. I've had
to dust myself off and go in.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
He's a teenage kid in the cumber bun drinking. What
was it made a West Coast corner or something.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Jim it was Jim Boom. It was Jim Boom and coke.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
And unfortunately, I've just I've come off the back, dusted
myself off. I had a few scratches down the side
of my face, but I was fine. I've just seen
you guys a photo of me at my form on.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Have you got.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
It on you? I haven't got it yet.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
I am.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Inst So what made you go the blue bow tie?
And that's that's a cumber bun, isn't it? Just that
is a it is I think it is? Or is
it a full on waistcoat you've got underneath?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
There was I do remember that the higher place was
called Ferrari Formal, where I said to Mom, I'd love
to look like a Ferrari.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Unfortunately we didn't rock up in a Ferrari it was.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
But when you spilled that, when you'd spilled that Pacardi
breezer all over you, do you remember there was a
pressure though, fits because you had to pick your date
up like that was kind of the thing. The guy
had to make the phone call to ask her out
and see if she'd like to come with him to
the formal and then you had to pick them up,
so it was like who's going to drive, Mum or Dad?
And you had to walk to the door hand them
(03:30):
the flower and then get.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Dropped at the format and needed manners. I want ETI
kuitt please? Cheryl and Colton? What did you do to
rock up in Cheryl?
Speaker 5 (03:40):
I got her a nifty seven Chevy?
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Oh wow? Was that yours? Or did you know someone
with it? Cheryl?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
No?
Speaker 5 (03:49):
No, no, from place decent.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Oh that's that's so good. I have a listen to Cheryl.
She loves the Mustang. Let's go to north mate. How
did the kids rock up to the formal?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Mal?
Speaker 5 (04:03):
So it was my son and his three mates last year.
They've all got their motorcycle license. They all rode their
bikes to the formal and their ties and pocket to
cheese all match the colors of their motorbikes.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Oh pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
What are they driving around in mel? What were their bikes?
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Oh? Are you talking to the mother who knows nothing?
Sorry about that?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Yeah, I was going to say motocross bikes has got
to Tina and Wilton.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Tell us about your son, Tina.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Yeah, it was his youth six farewell and they decided
to take the mickey out of everyone else getting hummers
and threats and limos, and they decided to rock up
in wheelbarrows.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Wheelbarrows, one carrying the other.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Was the girl in the front or was it just
the boys?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah, no, it was It was the boys. And I
think there was about six of them, and they had
the three wheelbarrow and one was in the wheelbarrow and
one was pushing them. And they made handwritten signs, you know,
Mercedes and Ferrari written on the side of the wheelbarrows.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Ah, that is brilliant. That is so brilliant. I love it.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
It is And to all the kids that are getting
ready for the form, it's one of the greatest nights
of your life.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
It is brilliant.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I mean I confronted Kristen Murray and asked her why
she dropped me because of my cole source and because.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
So yeah, it's.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
In Whippa with Kate Ritchie is a Nova podcast walk
great shows like this.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Download the Nova
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Player, find the app store or Google Playing the
This is the Fits In with Kate Richie podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I'm just trying to find a fun out of me
at my formal bloody funny guys.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
I hide a suit from.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Ferrari Formal Wear and I tell you what, I had
a cumba bun on.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
I don't laugh, Jess, because this is actually.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Just the one wore a cumber bun mate.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Because what is it now?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
We are in We're just coming into August now, so
girls will be getting their dresses ready for the former
one and it will be all they're talking about fits
every lunch time.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
They'll be sitting down in a group. Who are you taking?
What are you wearing? Hair up, hair down, corsage?
Speaker 5 (00:40):
Not very exciting times.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Sorry, isn't it interesting to Jess that guys don't give
us stuff if the guy next to them was wearing
the same thing. Naturally they do because it'll be a suit.
But the pressure of girls going, I'm wearing that now,
I chose that first.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
You can't totally and they'll often do a quick little
you know, you'll show people what you've got, so you
don't want to double up.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
That's yeah, you don't want that to happen.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
It's terrible news.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Okay, So there's a trend that's happening at the moment
that I didn't know about that. But kids are rocking
up to their formals in hotted up cars and old cars.
Have a listened to this. This is up in, this
is up in Kenes, but this is a formal. Have
a listen to the kids getting excited when all their
mates are rocking up in their cars. Oh, no, fourteen,
(01:43):
what did you rock up to your formal in? Because
you know what, I fell off the back of a
ute formal, yeah, which is highly illegal.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
We're in the back of the tray.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
There was six of us in the back of the
tray and there was a little makeshift seat, I remember,
and we were so excited and one of the dads
just went a little bit too quick over a speed
hump as we were coming into the function center and
I've flicked off the back and after I've I've had
a cutler.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Your cumber bund.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I had had a bit of pre mix on me
as well. So I've fallen off the back. I've had
to dust myself off and go in.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
He's a teenage kid in the cumber bun drinking. What
was it made a West Coast corner or something.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Jim it was Jim Boom. It was Jim Boom and coke.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
And unfortunately, I've just I've come off the back, dusted
myself off. I had a few scratches down the side
of my face, but I was fine. I've just seen
you guys a photo of me at my form on.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Have you got.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
It on you? I haven't got it yet.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
I am.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Inst So what made you go the blue bow tie?
And that's that's a cumber bun, isn't it? Just that
is a it is I think it is? Or is
it a full on waistcoat you've got underneath?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
There was I do remember that the higher place was
called Ferrari Formal, where I said to Mom, I'd love
to look like a Ferrari.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Unfortunately we didn't rock up in a Ferrari it was.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
But when you spilled that, when you'd spilled that Pacardi
breezer all over you, do you remember there was a
pressure though, fits because you had to pick your date
up like that was kind of the thing. The guy
had to make the phone call to ask her out
and see if she'd like to come with him to
the formal and then you had to pick them up,
so it was like who's going to drive, Mum or Dad?
And you had to walk to the door hand them
(03:30):
the flower and then get.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Dropped at the format and needed manners. I want ETI
kuitt please? Cheryl and Colton? What did you do to
rock up in Cheryl?
Speaker 5 (03:40):
I got her a nifty seven Chevy?
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Oh wow? Was that yours? Or did you know someone
with it? Cheryl?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
No?
Speaker 5 (03:49):
No, no, from place decent.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Oh that's that's so good. I have a listen to Cheryl.
She loves the Mustang. Let's go to north mate. How
did the kids rock up to the formal?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Mal?
Speaker 5 (04:03):
So it was my son and his three mates last year.
They've all got their motorcycle license. They all rode their
bikes to the formal and their ties and pocket to
cheese all match the colors of their motorbikes.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Oh pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
What are they driving around in mel? What were their bikes?
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Oh? Are you talking to the mother who knows nothing?
Sorry about that?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Yeah, I was going to say motocross bikes has got
to Tina and Wilton.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Tell us about your son, Tina.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Yeah, it was his youth six farewell and they decided
to take the mickey out of everyone else getting hummers
and threats and limos, and they decided to rock up
in wheelbarrows.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Wheelbarrows, one carrying the other.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Was the girl in the front or was it just
the boys?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah, no, it was It was the boys. And I
think there was about six of them, and they had
the three wheelbarrow and one was in the wheelbarrow and
one was pushing them. And they made handwritten signs, you know,
Mercedes and Ferrari written on the side of the wheelbarrows.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Ah, that is brilliant. That is so brilliant. I love it.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
It is And to all the kids that are getting
ready for the form, it's one of the greatest nights
of your life.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
It is brilliant.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I mean I confronted Kristen Murray and asked her why
she dropped me because of my cole source and because.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
So yeah, it's.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
In Whippa with Kate Ritchie is a Nova podcast walk
great shows like this.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Download the Nova
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Player, find the app store or Google Playing the
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