Flowers and debutantes at various Philadelphia Pennsylvania flower shows. And no the last debutante in my family was my great grandmother who came out in Baltimore in I think 1898.

1927 Philadelphia Flower Show. Two Women in Tulip and Hyacinth Beds. Publicity shot of two women wearing cloche hats and fur coats posing in an exhibit of hyacinths and tulips. 1927. American. Photograph. Quaker Photo Service, photographers. Philadelphia Flower Show Collection, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society via POWER Library, Pennsylvania’s Digital Library. Photograph itself in the public domain due to age. https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/papd/islandora/object/papd%3Aspahs-pfsc_54
1947 Philadelphia Flower Show. Three Flower Show Hostesses Model Three Debutante Bouquets: Modeling 3 debutante bouquets were 3 lovely Flower Show hostesses: (from left) Peggy Deegan, Lee Grazer, and Kay McClane. Kay McClane is “Miss Greater Philadelphia.” 1947. American. Photograph. Jules Schick Photography, photographers. Under copyright. Philadelphia Flower Show Collection, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society via POWER Library, Pennsylvania’s Digital Library. https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/papd/islandora/object/papd%3Aspahs-pfsc_10
1932 Philadelphia Flower Show. John P. Habermehl Standing in the Debutante’s Floral Revue Exhibit: John P. Habermehl of J. J. Habermehl’s Sons, florists, is on the left. Habermehl was a founding director of Philadelphia Flower Show Incorported, producers of the Philadelphia Flower Show 1927 – 1964. He is standing in “The Debutante’s Floral Revue” a 600 square foot exhibit designed by J. Liddon Pennock, consisting of an elaborate collection of over 75 floral arrangements in bowls, vases, baskets, corsages and bouquets. 1932. American. Photograph. Photographer not given. Philadelphia Flower Show Collection, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society via POWER Library, Pennsylvania’s Digital Library. https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/papd/islandora/object/papd%3Aspahs-pfsc_25