Southern debutante

Gisele Bundchen’s debutante ball was held in her hometown of Horizontina, in southern Brazil, in 1995, and the supermodel’s appearance has hardly changed in the 20 years since.

These rare photographs were taken of young ladies at a Harlem Debutante Ball, these events have vanished over the following decades in Harlem, New York,

Christopher Lowe in Johnson City, Tennessee - The Southern Debutante

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Seeing as I'm currently partying in Texas: Texas debutante ball, 1965

In November 1961, President John F. Kennedy and California Governor Pat Brown greeted 28 young ladies as they made their debut into society during The Links, Incorporated Los Angeles Chapter’s 10th annual cotillion at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. The sitting president was foremost paying respect to singer Nat King Cole, whose daughter Carole was debuting that evening, yet his presence epitomized the emergent power of African American debutante culture. Social organizations such as The Links…

A couple of weeks ago, we featured a post that set out to turn on it's head, the reputation of that much maligned of matrimonial hues, burgundy.

An irreverent glossary of words to the wise.

Definition: A debutante or deb (from the French débutante, “female beginner”) is a girl or young woman of an aristocratic or upper-class family who has reached maturity and, as a new adult, comes out…