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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…
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.
- Engrid Barnett
Feb 14, 2020 · Today, debutante balls are mostly expensive parties for wealthy teens. But, Richardson argues in The Season , here’s more to the story as she traces their history of social change, race and class, from Europe to America.
- Doug Fabrizio
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 ...
- Kristen Richardson
Dec 22, 2020 · “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.
- Vivian Manning-Schaffel
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 ...
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Mar 31, 2022 · Debs’ Delight. Well-bred girls were launched into society at the age of 17 or 18 with a formal introduction to the monarch and a debut at the high-profile ball. The parties and special events of the ensuing months showcased the debutantes’ charms to potential suitors.
