There was one daughter of a famous blogger: Christina Sophia Huffington, whose mother, Arianna Huffington, is co-founder of Huffingtonpost.com.
A debutante’s family pays $14,000 for a table plus thousands of dollars for couture gowns, hairdressers and other expenses.
“It used to be that if you weren’t at least engaged within the year following your debut you were embarrassed,” said Letitia Baldrige, the etiquette author who was Jacqueline Kennedy’s White House social secretary. “Your family sent you abroad to get rid of you for a while.”
That’s the whole point of being a debutant. Finding a husband.
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....