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Recent Examples of debNow every nubile deb has her eye on him, and our poor heroine doesn’t seem to stand a chance.—Judy Berman, TIME, 16 May 2024 The debutante fashion show is a requirement for the girls to complete the personal development part of the 16-month deb program.—Jane Napier Neely, latimes.com, 3 June 2019 Richardson delves into a variety of fascinating deb scenes, including African-American traditions dating back to Reconstruction.—Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2019 Doing an outstanding job as commentators for the show were Nareh Derhartounian and Sammy Aydin, who were part of the 2018 deb group.—Jane Napier Neely, latimes.com, 3 June 2019 Whether a deb plans to wear her dress again at her wedding, or realizes a strapless A-line gown really doesn’t fit her personality, there is definitely some practicality to the white-gown tradition.—Maggie Burch, Southern Living, 2 Feb. 2017 To help prepare them, the ball’s year-long Mentor Program matches each girl with a past deb who has attended the same college or university and shares an interest in the same profession or avocation.—Joanne Davidson, The Denver Post, 24 Feb. 2017 Whether a deb plans to wear her dress again at her wedding, or realizes a strapless A-line gown really doesn’t fit her personality, there is definitely some practicality to the white-gown tradition.—Maggie Burch, Southern Living, 1 May 2017
Group Stage Five debutantes set the stage for an intriguing and unpredictable group stage, which featured some shocks and upsets from the off.
Neel Shelat,
Forbes,
23 Nov. 2024
Staged at The Dorchester Hotel, where Hubert de Givenchy held his first UK show in 1955, the collection felt like peeking into a 1950’s debutante’s wardrobe.
It’s been one of the difficult things as a young woman in Hollywood that was often [being] put in the ingenue category.
Lexy Perez,
The Hollywood Reporter,
22 Oct. 2024
Take Jean Simmons — the original one — who’d burst onto the scene as an ingenue in the postwar era, starring in classics like Guys and Dolls and Spartacus.
While sauntering through the presentation, which felt more like a spring picnic than fashion show (guests sipped on glasses of rosé and plucked strawberries from overflowing trays), one particularly striking demoiselle caught the eye.
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