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Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Posted by Chiqua Rivera at 8:24 PM

Chiqua Rivera: My blogs take you to today's Cafe Society in Washington, D.C, New York, Paris, London, Milan, Los Angeles and through-out the globe where the beautiful meet. Café society was the collective description for the so-called "Beautiful People" and "Bright Young Things" who gathered in fashionable cafes and restaurants in New York, Paris, and London beginning in the late 19th century. Lucius Beebe, noted American author, journalist, gourmand, and railroad enthusiast is generally credited with creating the term "café society," which he chronicled in his weekly column, This New York, for the New York Herald Tribune during the 1920s and 1930s. Although members of café society were not necessarily members of The Establishment or other ruling class groups, they were people who attended each other's private dinners and balls, took holidays in exotic locations or at elegant resorts, and whose children tended to marry the children of other café society members.

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