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Originally posted by KDwxgrrl
Ok, so maybe I'm just too Midwestern... but there are still debutantes? What exactly does one have to do to be a debutante nowadays? 
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I know here (Athens) the debutant thing is a huge tradition, it doesn't really mean that much any more in the sense that it won't necessarily help you get a job or any thing like that. Its more a tradition (and lord knows how much tradition means in the south). Most girls get presented at the same ball that every woman in her family since forever has been presented at. When I first started taking ettiquette type classes (I was 13-ish) my grandmother sat me down and told me that I was going to be presented at this ball during this year, because its tradition...enough said. haha