Posted on 04/09/2017 1:14:10 PM PDT by NRx
Some did get married pretty young, but IIRC, the average age of getting married, at this time point, was a bit older than 16...more like 18-20 or even 23.
That movie and book, did throw Thaw in, but was VERY minimal.
The Quinceanera is more like a HUGE birthday party and celebrates girls turning 15. They have them in Florida and Texas...perhaps in other places too.
Deb Balls are to introduce upper middle to extremely wealthy young women to society and has nothing at all to do with anyone's birthday.
Yes, a civilized society. Basic right and wrong, Ten Commandments, do unto others, an understanding of good and evil and a common sense societal culture.
Went down hill after the 60s with the drugs and the socialist/communist debasement of religion and their 45 other goals.
How are we doing? I know I'm older, but things were good in 62', the American Grafitti class.
As an aside, check this out: AMERICAN GRAFFITI - The CARS
My college roommate and her younger sister had debut balls. This was in the mid-80s. I found the dressmaker who made my wedding dress (she also owned a taco shop) because she made the dress my roommate wore to her sister’s party.
Yes, this was just the very upper crust. Top level of the Titanic cabins. They felt that their role was to set an example for society, and they did it rather well, in my own humble opinion.
Hispanics in San Antonio do the same thing. I saw one where they rented the entire Convention Center.
True, especially that chin. Her slip is flattering, but her hair is rather femme-mullet.
Thanks for the info. When I saw the photo, I thought that it looked like EN as well. Boy, she sure was something in those photos!
Youtube has a film (with sound) of her doing a singing routine in some nightclub in the ‘30’s. She was much older, but still fairly attractive. Seeing her in live motion with sound was fascinating for me.
Or RAGTIME.
She was the model for the quintissential "IT GIRL" of the Edwardian era...known as THE GIBSON GIRL and sometimes "THE QUESTION MARK", because her profile and hair form a "question mark".
She was the model for the quintissential "IT GIRL" of the Edwardian era...known as THE GIBSON GIRL and sometimes "THE QUESTION MARK", because her profile and hair form a "question mark".
There are some good books on Stanford White and several ( which I have already posted a few of the titles of ) about Evelyn Nesbit.
And we have "Sweet Sixteen" parties here too, which seems similar.
That started in the last few decades of the 19th century, because it was when a girl put her hair up and got to wear long skirts/dresses ( grownup clothes ), but I though that that petered out in the late 5p0s-very early '60s.
:)
Thank goodness.
The Senior Prom is still a big thing, as far as I know.
This is about upper class women.
our ancestors went out to work in the fields, or as maids, cooks, nannies, weavers, or factory workers at age 14.
Agreed.
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