All to partake in this year's debutante season, which started at Thanksgiving and runs through this week in New York City.

With lessons learned and experiences gained from their debutante season, the young Dongya went on to win the division title in 2007, by beating Sichuan FC in the final, and thus gaining promotion to China League One, the second tier football league.

And it was almost as if he had arranged for her to have another debutante season.

It has become closely entwined with the social debutante season for certain families.

The debutante season was designed for aristocratic parents to find 'suitable' husbands for their daughters by throwing (often very expensive) parties and inviting eligible bachelors.

During the debutante season of 1954, she was presented to the Queen.

The setting is London's debutante season amidst the last presentation at Court in 1958.

Their talk had turned to the world beyond O-levels: finishing schools in Switzerland, modelling or secretarial courses, steady romances with the sons of their parents' friends, or the heady excitement of the debutante season.

They used the structure of the parades and balls to extend the traditions in their social circles of the debutante season.

Always family-conscious, she enhanced Babe Cushing's debutante season by giving a tea dance at the White House as a second coming-out party.