Centuries Of Debutantes Dish About Being Put On Display In 'The Season'
Kristen Richardson traces the history of the practice, with firsthand accounts from diaries and letters, finding political strife, social upheaval and machinations to keep out so-called undesirables.
The first thing I did after I finished Kristen Richardson's The Season was look up the Texas Dip.
Among all the demands on debutantes, the Texas Dip is one of the most obvious callbacks to the origins of the debutante ball, when a girl's first public presentation — at court or in an assembly of the exclusive upper crust — was a critical component to the period
