Debutante balls are actually not the only way for girls to "come out". In several etiquette books (including Emily Post and an old Canadian one by a woman named Audrey Pringle (who in this book, also included a chapter aimed at female students, advising them on rush....I guess sororities were more popular in Canada back in the 1940s)), I have also heard of coming of age teas and luncheons, which are less formal.
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