{{Short description|Form of curtsey}} <!-- Deleted image removed: thumb|right|A young woman executes a Texas dip in about 2017.{{ffdc|1=Texas dip 2017.png|log=2018 April 26}} --> The '''Texas dip''' is a form of elaborate curtsey and prostration performed in Texas during debutante balls.<ref name="dma">{{cite news|title=How to Texas Dip|url=https://interactive.dmagazine.com/ultimate-users-guide-to-dallas/?detail=how-to-texas-dip|accessdate=March 23, 2018|work=D Magazine|date=March 3, 2011}}</ref> It involves the woman extending her arms completely to either side and lowering herself fully so that one knee touches the floor while simultaneously bowing her head to the side so that her left ear touches her lap.<ref name="dma"/><ref>{{cite book|last1=Vendela|first1=Vita|title=Girls on the Verge: Debutante Dips, Drive-bys, and Other Initiations|date=2007|publisher=St. Martin's Press|isbn=1429981970|page=61|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SylwLweuU4cC}}</ref> The Texas dip is believed to have originated in about 1909.<ref name="dma"/><ref>{{cite book|last1=Kendall|first1=Diana|title=The Power of Good Deeds: Privileged Women and the Social Reproduction of the Upper Class|date=2002|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=0742519767|page=116}}</ref>
==See also== * Drum major backbend * Kowtow * Debutante
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==External links== * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaTjQ2X6914&t=1m25s video of a woman performing a Texas dip during the introduction of debutantes in Laredo, Texas] Category:Gestures of respect Category:Bowing Category:Culture of Texas