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To: Pan_Yan

When we were little middle-class white kids in the 50s-60s, we were sent to “cotillion” classes organized in our neighborhood for kids aged 11-13. Lots of communities had these etiquette classes for boys and girls before the onset of school dances and dating.


37 posted on 03/10/2016 1:06:13 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Who can actually defeat the Democrats in 2016? -- the most important thing about all candidates.)
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To: Albion Wilde

One of my choir members (Rafaela, the six-foot tall goddess from Acapulco) teaches children and teens to dance for their social events. When they have the party to celebrate a child’s “Presentation,” at the 3rd birthday, the older siblings will do something like a minuet. At a Quinceanera, the birthday girl and her siblings and friends will do several dances.


38 posted on 03/10/2016 1:11:59 PM PST by Tax-chick (Have a colonoscopy first thing in the morning, and nothing worse will happen the rest of the day.)
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To: Albion Wilde

Cotillion is still a thing in the South. http://nljc.com/nljc/index.php?p=chapters&a=county&state=Virginia&county=Northern%20Virginia


40 posted on 03/10/2016 3:39:00 PM PST by kalee
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