The other week, Rachel and I went to Kensington Palace where you can see some of Princess Diana's dresses. I thought that exhibit would be a little more substantial, but perhaps some of them were on loan...It still was pretty amazing to see her fashion, although it was a bit "80's" with velvet and bows. I didn't realize how tall she was. It told you where she wore each dress as well, which was really neat in imagining what the event was like.
Some of Princess Diana's dresses
They also had another exhibit called The Last Debutantes. It was amazing. I think that Rachel and I really appreciated it more than any other visitor there. We sat down at the beginning on this cute pink sofa and listened to videos of women who were in the last deb season (1958). It was interesting to hear some of them talk negatively about how it was out-dated and others talk about the fun and friendships made. One aspect that was especially interesting was that there were only 3-4 debs that were in university, and they were kind of like a different breed to the other debs. One of the university debs pointed out as well that very few people went to university at all, so to be a woman and go then was rare. The women also had to go through finishing school classes that basically taught them how to be a homemaker. I'm not going to lie, some of those classes would really come in handy.
So through the interviews, the dresses, the make-up and dressing routine, I would say we were pretty happy. I kept thinking how foreign this exhibit must be to so many people and wondered how crazy they thought it all was. These debs actually got to meet the Queen. It was way intense.
This shows all the invitations of one of the debutantes for the season. This is not even half of them. It was crazy! That is a lot of RSVP-ing.
Deb dresses on display...
Here are a few etiquette tips for you...as if you really need them, you know being Southern and all...
Here we are practicing our curtsey. They had a video of a lady showing you how to do it above the mirror.
3 comments:
I would TOTALLY wear that orange one. I'm so glad y'all had fun. We should send Emmy to this thing...she can compare her many deb experiences.
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All I have to say is that when we got to the "How to Set a Table" poster, Meme called us all over and quizzed us on the difference between where water glasses and wine glasses go. I <3 being Southern.
You are adorable. I just googled all of the debs and read about the exhibit, so cool. Can you steal me some of those dresses please? :)
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