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It totally depends on the Krewe. Rex, Comus, Momus, Twelfth Night Revelers, to name a few, come to you if they want you as a member, and you must be "someone" to be in the Krewe. And only the daughters/sons of a very select group of old-line families become the maids. Usually they do this their debutante season. You see the same names over and over in the paper for the old-line groups. A girl is usually queen of one org, and then a maid to others. The only exception is you cannot be in both Rex and Comus, the two oldest groups. Reason: their balls are both on Mardi Gras night. That does not mean your family can't hold membership in both krewes, it just means that you cannot be a part of both courts. Its a very special tradition to watch the Meeting of the Courts on tv on Mardi Gras night. At about 11:30, Comus and his queen come over to the Rex ball (they're held in the same auditorium) and they parade around. Its absolutely gorgeous - Rex and his queen in gold and Comus and his queen in silver. At the stroke of midnight Mardi Gras is over, and the balls conclude. Thus begins Ash Wednesday in New Orleans, a city with a very large Catholic population.
There are many many other Krewes whose membership is much more open. Bacchus, Endymion, Orpheus are 3 of the "super-krewes" that have a large and diverse membership. Maids do not have to be debs, or even young girls. Sometimes it is the adult women of the club. The super-krewes usually have a celebrity grand marshall.
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