Posted on 01/04/2009 6:01:57 PM PST by Lorianne
My wife refused to make her debut, and it made me very angry because I loved the parties. I made my debut for about 10 years, and was it fun!
At least this is a legit ‘debutante’ buy your way in with your old or new money. I was a Candy Striper in HS (volunteering at a local hospital as a pre-curser to going to nursing school). There was a ‘Medallion’ Ball same idea as this...but hitched (at least back in the 70/80s) to volunteering. It was kinda hurtful to learn that some ‘volunteers’ were more equal than others (those that got the Ball thing).
Anyway...I am not bitter or anything...Obama can’t ‘read me’...I mean I only turned bitter over the clinging, to my religion and guns...this election cycle, right? Did it start back then? Oh noes...I am going to need online help...Obama save me!
(PaMom collapses in a heap...sobbing over missed party dresses and upstyled hairdos. Oh, the hugh manatee!)
Did I miss something? If you are a guy; you can’t make a debut. LOL
Tell your wife “Good Going”.
I know. I remember the Candy Stripers; but never was one.
That’s the whole point of being a debutant. Finding a husband.
(PaMom blows her nose and dabs her eyes...)
Last year, my daughter and I were in a Walgreen's parking lot and another girl who had graduated two years before my daughter yelled "hello". We went over to her car to greet her and I saw a "Plan B" package on the seat. She noticed I had seen it and she pulled her purse over it. She told my daughter she had been at the local coming-out ball the night before. When we left my daughter regretted not asking her what she wore. I said that I was more curious about who her date had been!
So--this year---appearing in white--was the same girl making her own "debut". I guess "Plan B" worked and she got to have her own "Plan A" debutante night after all.
Christina Sophia Huffington with mother Arianna.
http://www.patrickmcmullan.com/site/event_detail.aspx?eid=27790&home=1
My neighbors have five daughters and none were allowed to go to private school, although the only son did. (He's a scholarship student at his dad's pricey alma-mater.) I know that they have to make sacrifices just to pay their property tax on their house--but every daughter was a deb. Not one has married better because of her big night out. Total waste of money and would have been spent alot better on an equal amount of education. But I guess we all have our priorities....
More Christina Sophia Huffington with mother Arianna.
Victoria Hopper, Arianna Huffington’s daughter Christina Huffington, 14, during a book and film party for “The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq”
How “wealthy” does a family have to be to participate in these debuts? Just curious, since debuts are not something people do where we live.
I would hazard a guess at ‘very’ wealthy to pay for all of the glam a debut would entail. Think the the reality show My Sweet Sixteen (but with more society ritz than out and out bling).
Thanks! How about to get invited to one as a guest?
Thanks be for Puffs w/Aloe...or I would be all blotchy tomorrow.
LOL! Well, a very casual aquaintance of mine on the East Coast said her son got invited to one, and I was aghast as I didn’t even know people still did these things. I imagined that she must be incredibly rich or something to even know people who would have a debut. :-P
First you make $10 million................
I prefer my old VHS copies of “Dirty Debutantes,” but I digress...
I am going to puke.
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