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   May 16, 2024 · Featuring ball gowns, eligible bachelors and a chance to meet royalty – the world of the debutante certainly seems like a glamourous one. But what was life really like for these young women chosen to be presented to society? Carolyn Harris explores…

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   Dec 22, 2020 · When one thinks of a debutante ball, certain pop culture references spring to mind. Here’s one: “The business of her life was to get her daughters married,” Jane Austen wrote of the Bennet sisters’ mother Mrs. Bennet in Pride and Prejudice.

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   May 9, 2022 · They, along with "the Ball, [provide] a friendly social context where young men and women from all over the world meet one another, have a wonderful time, and form lasting friendships." Many families consider the debutante experience a rite of passage, introducing their daughters to adulthood.

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   Nov 25, 2019 · Today’s social life still follows the rhythm of the debutante season and its focus remains money—fathers didn’t only advance through their daughters, they figured out how to make them beg...

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   Feb 9, 2022 · The tradition of the “social season” lasted nearly 180 years- from the reign of George III to Queen Elizabeth II. During this time period, young upper-class women made their formal debut into society by curtseying to the monarch.

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   Apr 22, 2022 · Netflix's hit show "Bridgerton" reimagines what life was like for upper-class families who flocked to London in 1813 for debutante season, a period of time where young people courted at...

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   What is the social life like in the debutante season?

   • Today’s social life still follows the rhythm of the debutante season and its focus remains money—fathers didn’t only advance through their daughters, they figured out how to make them beg for the right to curtsy.

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   How old is a debutant?

   • Ages of debutantes vary across history, but generally fall between 16 and 18 years of age. What did debutantes wear? MacCarthy recalled that: “Preparations for the Season had gone on for several months before the presentations.”

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   What is it like to be a debutante?

   • Debutantes pose together in 2018 in New York City at the International Debutante Ball. Savage found some aspects of deb life more rewarding than just putting on a beautiful dress and learning how to dance. “I made a lot of friends I could call when it came time to apply to college.

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   What is a debutante culture?

   • Among the wealthy, today’s version of debutante culture seeks to uphold the tenants of its tradition in the sense that gowns are worn, dances are learned, and young women of certain status are introduced to society.

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   What was London's social season like?

   • Queen Charlotte’s Ball and the introduction of debutantes into high society was the highlight of London’s social season each year. This social season consisted of balls, sporting events and parties. Each year this social season lasted from Parliaments’ Easter session break until August. Who could become a debutante?

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   Why were debutante balls so popular?

   • “Debutante balls began as a way for fathers to marry their daughters off to wealthier men or improve their social status,” says Kristen Richardson, author of The Season: A Social History of the Debutante. “The stakes were really high because marriage was, of course, the only career for women, particularly women of a certain social status.

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   Dec 17, 2019 · “Young women have always been for sale.” This eye-opening sentence begins chapter one of The Season, Kristen Richardson’s serious, enlightening look at debutantes throughout history. It ranges over hundreds of years to explore the origin of why and how young women were presented at court in England and the ways this evolved into “the ...