"They did that," she said, referring to the debutante parties, "and we went to the parade."
At 18, in the midst of her debutante party, she decided to fly with Alicia to India to hunt tigers.
Especially if you're the kind of little girl who likes to crash debutante parties and who will probably grow up to drink martinis for breakfast.
In December, 1910, Helen was given a debutante party at the White House.
I thought I was at a debutante party.
It seems that the scene has taken the place of the debutante parties as a marriage market.
Morgan resisted her mother's suggestion that she have a debutante party to celebrate her availability for marriage.
Remembered seeing him dance, for chrissakes, at debutante parties and charity balls.
Nor, like Laurel, is she being exiled to the genteel, vacuous world of debutante parties.
She looked as if she were going to a debutante party.