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Sub Section: The Young Ladies Of Brooklyn Society
The Young Ladies were sent to the finest boarding and finishing schools, taught etiquette, music and dance lessons, to be properly trained in widening their acquaintance with the Brooklyn Fashionable Society of New York.  Witness the social triumph of these young ladies as they are introduced to Society. From the moment she is born, the mother prepares her daughter to be a true gentlewoman and to marry well. Her coming out meant a young woman completed her education and was officially available on the marriage mart." "Bank accounts were studied and ancestral lineages inspected, if both were met with approval, then the engagement was formalized."
 
 
Article Name: Private, Boarding Schools For Young Ladies-1891
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03/15/2007

 
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Miriam Medina

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Article Name: Private, Boarding Schools For Young Ladies: 1893-1894
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03/15/2007

 
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Article Name: Private, Boarding Schools For Young Ladies: 1895
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03/15/2007

 
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Article Name: Private, Boarding Schools For Young Ladies: 1910
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03/15/2007

 
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Article Name: Private, Boarding Schools For Young Ladies: Brooklyn 1883
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03/15/2007

 
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Web Link: Lectures To Young Women: Female Education by William G. Eliot Jr. 1854 Pages 100-132
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03/15/2007

 
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Making of America

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An After Dinner Music Scene
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03/15/2007

 
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Fashion Era.com

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Web Link: The Banjo and Young Ladies of High Society
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03/15/2007

 
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Dr. Horsehair Music Company

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Article Name: Dancing Schools and Academies
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03/15/2007

 
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Web Link: Cotillion Dance
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03/15/2007

 
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Street Swing Dance History Archives

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Web Link: The Quadrille
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03/15/2007

 
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Street Swing Dance History Archives

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The Polka
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03/15/2007

 
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Street Swing Dance History Archives

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Dance Favors: New Cotillion Favors For the Season, Harper's Bazaar 1899
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03/15/2007

 
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Victoriana.com

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Article Name: Etiquette For Elderly Girls
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03/15/2007

 
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Miriam Medina

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Article Name: Presentation At Court-English Society
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03/15/2007

 
Article By:

Dawn Aiello

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Article Name: Debutante Bouquets: Their Uses and Their Abuses 1884
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03/15/2007

 
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Miriam Medina

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Article Name: Debutantes Introduced to Brooklyn Society 1900
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03/15/2007

 
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Miriam Medina

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Article Name: Debutante Tid-Bits Brooklyn Society
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03/15/2007

 
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Miriam Medina

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Article Name: The Dress Of The Debutante A Thing of Beauty
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03/15/2007

 
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Web Link: The Debutante
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03/15/2007

 
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Bartleby.com

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Sub Section:
Fashion for The Young Ladies Of The Brooklyn Society World
"All Victorian ladies  by which we mean women of sufficient means to be able to follow fashion, wore roughly the same types of garments during the course of the nineteenth century. What changed was the cut, construction and materials." The Young Ladies of Brooklyn Society were known for their beauty and lovely gowns.
 
 
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Victorian Collars
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03/15/2007

 
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Victorian Emporium

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Corsets From Lord and Taylor Department Store Catalog
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03/15/2007

 
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Victoriana.com

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Corset Advertisements From 1900-1914
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03/15/2007

 
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Victoriana.com

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History of Hairstyles of The Victorian Era
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03/15/2007

 
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Shooting Star History

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History of Hair Jewelry in Victorian America
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03/15/2007

 
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Historic North Hampton Museum and Education Ctr.

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Ladies Bonnets: 1850's-1860's
Date Posted:

03/15/2007

 
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Victorian Millinery.com

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Is a Hat A Frivolous Accessory Or A Necessity?
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03/15/2007

 
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Vintage Fashion Guild

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Fashion in the 1830s and '40s
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03/15/2007

 
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Ladies Treasury

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The Crinolan Era, Fashion in the 1850s and '60s
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03/15/2007

 
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Ladies Treasury

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The Busle Era, Fashion in the 1870's and '80s