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...year of college.) “It was kind of a rite-of-passage thing,” she says. “It was my turn; I was joining the club.” Similar to Long, Player’s family has a tradition where, after her debut, each young woman has her portrait made in her debutante dress. Her grandmother then displays all the pictures on a table in her house. “I wasn’t on it yet,” Player says with a smile. “So I was like...
While most young women who debut join a long list of relatives who have done so, first-generation debutantes exist. Ashley B.T. Ma ’05 was the first in her family to come out. She made the decision to debut because the organization that ran the ceremony, the Junior League of they City of New York, had a long history with The Chapin School, her alma mater. Ma and Chapin classmate Catherine K. Gyllerstrom ’05 also defy debutante myths in that neither one is the stereotypical WASP. While Ma is half-Asian, Gyllerstrom is Greek...
While the reasons behind teenagers’ decisions to debut are usually one of two—it’s a family thing or their friends are doing it—the actual process varies radically from city to city and club to club. Young ladies are typically invited by charitable organizations to be debutantes. Some organizations require letters of recommendation, but the common factor in the selection process is that, as Gyllerstrom notes, “it’s either a blood thing or a friend thing...
Melissa A. Tanner ’03, of Huntsville, Ala., also underwent involved preparation for her debut. In between tea parties, she was schooled on the curtsy as well as seating arrangements. “It was a pretty big time commitment,” she says...
There’s the South and then there’s Texas. Debutantes from both the South and the North credit the Lone Star state with the most elaborate debuts. And the subject of Texas balls inspires the inevitable discussion of the “Texas bow” (a.k.a. the “Texas Dip” and the “Texas Swan Dive”). The elaborate curtsy is a regionalized version of the bow debutantes did when they were presented to the Queen at St. James’ Court. Player didn’t have...