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== Similar dance events == | == Similar dance events == | ||
The Tolo Dance in the Pacific Northwest began several decades before Capp's comic strip. The word ''tolo'' comes from the University of Washington's [[Mortar Board]], which began as an all-women's honor society called the "Tolo Club", | The Tolo Dance in the Pacific Northwest began several decades before Capp's comic strip. The word ''tolo'' comes from the University of Washington's [[Mortar Board]], which began as an all-women's honor society called the "Tolo Club", named for a [[Chinook Jargon]] word that allegedly means "to win", "to earn", or "to succeed". To raise funds, the group first held a dance where women asked men in 1909.<ref>{{cite news |last=Lovejoy |first=Bess |date=September 16, 2024 |title=What's the Deal with Tolo Dances? |url=https://www.seattlemet.com/news-and-city-life/2024/09/asked-answered-tolo-dances |work=[[Seattle Met]] |accessdate=December 5, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://sites.google.com/site/uwtolo/tolo-chapter-history|title=Tolo Chapter History – University of Washington Mortar Board – Tolo Chapter}}</ref> | ||
== See also == | == See also == | ||
Latest revision as of 13:46, 2 January 2025
A Sadie Hawkins dance or turnabout[1] is a usually informal dance sponsored by a high school, middle school or college, to which the ladies invite the gentlemen to be their dates.[2] This is contrary to the custom of the guys typically inviting the girls to be their dates to school dances such as prom in the spring and homecoming in the fall. These dances are primarily a United States event.
History
The Sadie Hawkins dance is named after the Li'l Abner comic strip character Sadie Hawkins, created by cartoonist Al Capp.[2][3] In the strip, Sadie Hawkins Day fell on a given day in November, on which the unmarried women of Dogpatch would chase the bachelors and "marry up" with the ones that they caught.[2] The event was introduced in a daily strip that ran on November 15, 1937. By 1939, Sadie Hawkins events were held at over 200 colleges, according to Life magazine.[4]
The date for Sadie Hawkins Day most commonly reported is November 13, two days before the first appearance in the comics,[5] but the exact date was never actually specified by Al Capp until he finally set it as November 26 in his last Li'l Abner daily strip on November 5, 1977.[6]
Similar dance events
The Tolo Dance in the Pacific Northwest began several decades before Capp's comic strip. The word tolo comes from the University of Washington's Mortar Board, which began as an all-women's honor society called the "Tolo Club", named for a Chinook Jargon word that allegedly means "to win", "to earn", or "to succeed". To raise funds, the group first held a dance where women asked men in 1909.[7][8]
See also
- Gender roles
- Leap year, for traditions on women proposing marriage
- Powder Puff, a football game pitting girls against girls
- Winter Formal, a formal dance that may be had instead of Sadie Hawkins dances from January through March
References
External links
- ↑ Twersky, Carolyn (November 16, 2022). "What Is a Sadie Hawkins Dance and Where Did It Come From?". Seventeen. Hearst Magazines. Retrieved December 23, 2022.
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