Word: deb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...debutantes had been rushed through their curtsies too fast: "They ran those girls through just like Ziegfeld Follies girls-with clothes." In a more leisurely era, socially prominent young ladies made their debuts under family auspices. In recent years mass debuts have become the rule, and the modern deb has a commercial sponsor...
...unknown beyond the limits of Scarsdale and Greenwich (one debutante came all the way from Minneapolis). Most were greeted with a proud, polite pitter-patter of applause from their parents' boxes or tables; others got ovations. When Miss Gary Latimer, who had been dubbed the "No. 1 Glamour Deb" by New York society editors, appeared, it was like the arrival of a movie queen on the 20th Century Limited: a murmur ran through the crowd, flashbulbs popped, and Miss Latimer smiled like no one since Brenda Diana Duff Frazier...
Unlike her sister in New York, who drinks her Martinis extra dry and has learned to be bored at the Stork long before her debut, London's deb bursts forth on the social scene relatively unaware. Her dancing has been largely confined to boarding-school socials, her standard tipple tomato juice laced with Worcestershire sauce. Her debut is genuine and to meet it she must first get on a "list...
Once listed officially as a deb, the new blossom has only to sit back and wait for the invitations to pour in. During a mad period of flowering that lasts for three months, her mornings are spent in beauty sleep, her afternoons and evenings at a never-ending round of teas, dinners and balls, her nights at nightclubs. A shrewd father can cut the upkeep for the season down to as low as ?1,000, but many a deb runs up the tabs to well over...
Meanwhile, there is the ever-present problem of finding nutrient soil in which the deb can flourish. The steady, promising young man of 30-mother's invariable choice for a son-in-law-seldom has time for the social round, so the deb for the most part must frolic with a younger, less stable type, whose main qualifications are strong legs for dancing and a talent for witty sophistication. Since such gay blades are not always reliable, the mothers at the Berkeley were busy last week grading them according to a private code. Those who rated NST (not safe...