She cycled off to Oxford railway station with all her kit — beige full-skirted lace over taffeta dress, beige kid court shoes and gloves — in her bicycle basket [...] She was back that night, very offhand about the whole thing.

version: "In 1955 my best friend, Maureen Cleave, bought a beige lace mid-calf dress, matching gloves and shoes, put the lot in her bicycle basket and pedalled to the London train to be presented at court. I hadn't realised debutantes still existed. After 1958 they no longer would." ("The Diamond Decades: The 1950s", The Daily Telegraph (28 May 2012) newspapers.com printed version: "review", (26 May 2012, p. R4). Both women were Oxford University undergraduates at the time.