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1. www.discoverbritain.com › history-of-debutantesThe history of debutantes: Bright young things - Britain Magazine

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   Dec 5, 2023 · Credit: Madame Vacani teaching debutantes to curtsey in 1929. Shrouded in new etiquette – including the introduction of dance cards or ‘programmes’ so debutantes (and their parents) could keep track of their partners at balls – the Season had become a serious business. Society having turned against overtly arranged marriages, sending ...

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2. www.vacani.com › about-vacani-2-2About Vacani - Vacani School of Dance

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   The History of Vacani. Founded in 1915 by Marguerite Vacani (aunt of Betty Vacani) the Vacani School of Dance originally taught the sort of dancing and social etiquette that was a necessary accomplishment for young ladies and gentlemen of quality. Pupils were taught the ballroom dances of the day and debutante ladies learned the curtsy needed ...

3. www.bigredbook.info › madame_vacaniThis Is Your Life: Madame Vacani - Big Red Book

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   Marguerite, who was born in London, began teaching dance in 1912 and founded the Vacani School of Dance in 1920. The school aimed to teach ballroom dances and social etiquette of the day to young ladies and gentlemen, while debutante ladies learned to curtsey for their presentation parties. During the First and Second World Wars, she taught ...

4. news.bbc.co.uk › 2 › hiUK | Magazine | Come on out, girls - BBC News

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   Sep 16, 2009 · In the latter years of the ball, while working as principal at the Vacani School of Dance, Ms Fallowfield for a time took on the task of teaching debutantes to curtsey and to waltz. "They'd troop in in their jeans and Doc Martens, but we went along looking like mini-mothers. But they loved it." Party time

5. www.telegraph.co.uk › news › uknewsRecalling the lost era of the debutantes - The Telegraph

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   Mar 16, 2008 · We learned the technique from Madame Vacani, a dancing teacher who held a kind of royal warrant for the curtsey. A Vacani curtsey was part of the mystique. However hard we practised, the ...

6. www.gettyimages.com › detail › news-photoRoyal dance instructor Madame Vacani teaches four debutantes ...

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   Royal dance instructor Madame Vacani teaches four debutantes how to curtsey to the Queen at Cygnet House Finishing School, Staines, 1952. The debs are Linda Clark, Diana Farrant, Linnet Leach and...

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   Did Vacani teach debutantes to curtsey?

   • An illustration from a 1911 issue of The Tatler by Dudley Tennant showing debutantes 'emerging' for their first Season. Credit: Madame Vacani teaching debutantes to curtsey in 1929.

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   When did the curtsey ritual start?

   • The curtsey ritual went back to the reign of George III, when daughters of the court circle who reached marriageable age were presented to Queen Charlotte by their mothers. This signified their entrée on to the marriage market. Through the 19th and early 20th centuries the system grew and solidified.

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   What is a curtsey ceremony?

   • The ceremony, or something like it, had been going for 200 years. The curtsey ritual went back to the reign of George III, when daughters of the court circle who reached marriageable age were presented to Queen Charlotte by their mothers. This signified their entrée on to the marriage market.

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   What happened to curtseys after 1958?

   • After the Lord Chamberlain's announcement that curtseys would be ceasing after 1958, there was a record number of applications for the final presentations, like a wave of panic buying. One mother was said to have presented all four of her daughters. Under-age girls were brought out of boarding school to curtsey.

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8. www.reddit.com › r › TheWayWeWereMadame Vacani teaching young ladies how to curtsey in 1929.

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   Madame Vacani teaching young ladies how to curtsey in 1929. 1920s. 90. 2. Sort by: Add a Comment. boingggoesmyschlong. • 5 mo. ago. She is creeping me out.