How we know what we publish.

What this site covers, where its information comes from, the rules every page follows, and who pays for it.

What this site covers — and what it doesn't

promdresses.com is a reference for the prom dress category: the garments, how they're made, how sizing and fit actually work, and the culture and rules around the event. We follow one scope rule, and it shapes everything here: we cover the category, not companies. No brand reviews, rankings, comparisons, or profiles appear on this site, and no maker or retailer is named in our editorial content. When an article says "some makers keep separate size charts for separate style lines," that is a fact about how the industry works — not a pointer at anyone.

The reason is plain and we'd rather state it than imply otherwise: this site is published by people who work in the formal-wear industry. Covering specific companies from that position would carry conflicts we'd have to manage; covering none carries none. Who we are is on the About page.

Where our information comes from

Our articles describe garment construction, fabric behavior, fit mechanics, and event customs — knowledge that is established in dressmaking and tailoring practice rather than invented here. We write it carefully, plainly, and with its limits stated inline: where advice depends on circumstances (a school's dress code, a specific fabric, a body between sizes), the article says so instead of flattening it.

Three standing rules govern every page:

• No invented numbers. If a sentence states a figure, that figure comes from a data layer or a cited source — never from a writer's keyboard. Pages carrying no real data carry no statistics.
• Dated pages. Articles carry the date they were published and, after any substantive edit, the date they were updated. Dates are author-supplied facts, not build artifacts.
• A named, accountable byline. Content is credited to the Promdresses.com editorial team — a real masthead, described on the About page — or to named contributors. We never invent author identities.

Our research

The State of Prom survey. We field an annual survey of prom attendees — behavior, spending, timelines, how dresses are found and chosen, dress codes and traditions. It asks nothing about brands and publishes nothing about them. The first report arrives in January 2027, free to read and free to cite, with its full methodology (sampling, consent process for minor respondents, questionnaire, and dataset) published alongside the findings. Until it publishes, this site states no figures from it.

Tools and your privacy

Our interactive tools — the fit finder and anything like it — run entirely in your browser. Measurements you enter are stored only on your device, in a single place you can clear with one visible control, and are never sent anywhere: no request, no analytics event, no cookie, no URL parameter carries them. This isn't a policy aspiration; it's a tested property — we instrument every way a page could make a network call and verify the count is zero before changes ship. The privacy page describes everything that stays on your device.

The site runs no analytics and sets no cookies today. If that ever changes, the privacy page changes first and says so plainly.

Corrections

If something here is wrong, tell us: editor@promdresses.com. We read every correction, fix errors in place, and note substantive fixes on the page with the updated date. Being correctable in public is most of what being trustworthy means.

How this site is funded

It isn't — not by you, and not by anyone with a stake in what we write. No advertising, no sponsorships, no affiliate links, no paid placements, and nothing for sale. The publishers fund it directly. If that model ever changes, this page changes first.