On Saturday night, 31 women made their society debut at the Plaza Hotel during the 70th annual International Debutante Ball. The traditional white-tie dinner and dance, held Dec. 28, remains one of ...

Each year, the scions of worldwide leaders and leading cultural figures make their official societal debut. Although often regarded as an antiquated practice, debutante balls, or “cotillion,” have ...

Ellie Kemper is publicly apologizing for participating in a debutante ball hosted by an organization with an "unquestionably racist, sexist, and elitist past" when she was a teenager. "When I was 19 ...

The girls wait for two or three hours to be introduced. The reason they’re sitting on the ground is because there weren’t any chairs in the waiting room’ ...

National Black Debutante Database documents century-old tradition of presenting young women to society.

It’s no secret we Southerners love traditions, especially those that become a rite of passage for each generation to participate in. So it shouldn’t be a surprise that two well-known coming-of-age ...

Apple Martin’s society debut has the internet abuzz. No, that’s not a covert way of saying she’s auditioning for Bridgerton. The 20-year-old daughter of Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin attended the ...

Ellie Kemper came under fire last week after someone on Twitter shared that she’d participated in the Veiled Prophet Ball in her teens. The debutante ball, which has a problematic and racist history ...