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...With blonde hair and an easy smile, Long looks as if she’d be at right at home on a camelia-covered veranda in a classic film. “It’s a seven-foot by four-foot portrait of me standing in my debutante dress, wearing my gloves, and holding my purse. There’s a French-blue background and our antique chairs behind me,” says Long, laughing self-deprecatingly. “My mom is very old-fashioned,” explains the native of Atlanta...
Once selected, the women begin the process of becoming debutantes. The preparations range from selecting a guest list and finding the perfect dress to curtsy lessons, never-ending parties and long rehearsals. Daphne W. Lyman ’05 experienced a bit of both types of debutante schooling. She participated in two balls in New York City: the Junior Assemblies and the Infirmary Ball. The Junior Assemblies was the more exclusive of the two; the only people allowed to attend were family members and escorts. The Infirmary Ball was on a much larger scale. “It was really...
...Fiesta baby,” she explains. “When I was four, I saw the queen getting crowned and she was gorgeous. I wanted to be her—I wanted to be the fairy princess with the crown and the big puffy white dress. It’s a little girl’s dream—like you want to be a ballerina or you want to be Cinderella. I wanted to be that girl when I was four. I came home, I practiced the bow. And of course, I fell over myself because...
...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, ‘I made it to the table...
...they were presented to the Queen at St. James’ Court. Player didn’t have to perform it herself but has seen it done. “It’s ridiculous,” she says. “You have to get a special dress made so you don’t flash the world.” Long did have to learn the bow for her debut. Sitting at a table in the Science Center Greenhouse, she improvises with her arms and talks through the basics of the bow. The debutante must lower herself...