Beauty Pageant San Antonio

2010 Miss San Antonio Pageant


Dressing Up Debutantes: Pageantry and Glitz in Texas (Dress, Body, Culture)


Dressing Up Debutantes: Pageantry and Glitz in Texas (Dress, Body, Culture)


$30.94


For ninety years, young society women in San Antonio, Texas have donned custom-designed dresses and trains to take part in the Coronation of a queen and her court. These royal robes, which weigh fifty pounds and more and cost an average of $18,000, are highly embellished with rhinestones and beads. The Coronation is part of the ten-day, century-old festival celebrating the final battle of the 1836…
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