Debutante ball, 1958
A debutante is a young woman of an aristocratic or upper-class family who has reached maturity and, as a new adult, comes out into society at a formal “debut”. Originally, the term meant the woman was old enough to be married, and part of the purpose of her coming out was to display her to eligible bachelors and their families with a view to marriage within a select circle.
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Queen Charlotte’s Ball, London, 1959 via
Jackie Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill by Cecil Beaton for Vogue at a debutante ball, 1951 via
Lee Radziwill and Jackie Kennedy Onassis by Cecil Beaton for Vogue at a debutante ball, 1951 via
Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis by Cecil Beaton for Vogue, 1951 via
Lee Radziwill by Cecil Beaton for Vogue at a debutante ball, 1951 via
Debutantes Lady Blanche Ruth Brooke Tatton Grieve and Mrs. Bouchier, (née Flora Bathurst Greive), 1899.
