Coastal Cotillion Etiquette Workshop 2025
The Flour Bluff/Padre Island Coastal Cotillion held their etiquette workshop on October 5th, 2025, at the home of board member Mrs. Roberta Soward. The topics for the meeting included introductions, manners, dining etiquette, resumes and job interviews.
Flo East, senior adviser, provided a review of upcoming events and necessary preparations for the Presentation Ball in February 2025. Mrs. Soward began the workshop with dinner etiquette and varied formal place settings. The debutantes were given the opportunity to view a table prepared by Mrs. Soward for the most formal dining setting and then another less formal dining option. Appropriate social graces were reviewed by the board members and the senior debutantes were then told that these skills would be applied during the dinner at the Coastal Cotillion Presentation Ball in February 2026. Other topics discussed were social media and new techniques for job interviews. Questions from the debutantes on formal dining were addressed. Flo East concluded the workshop with a review of the November dress critique that will follow the Fall Luncheon. She also discussed invitations for the Presentation Ball and the individual tables decorations to be created by each debutante.
The Coastal Cotillion is an organization established to educate and enlighten the young women in Flour Bluff and Padre Island community about the social and educational opportunities available to them as they move through their post-graduation training or college endeavors and create their professional careers. They are provided social development through guest speakers, workshops, and social functions where they can advance interpersonal skills as they approach adulthood. The Coastal Cotillion is open to any senior high school transfer student or girls living in Flour Bluff or on Padre Island.
The next Coastal Cotillion Event will be the Fall Luncheon in November with the special guest speaker, Mrs. Jeanie Paluseo.
The Coastal Cotillion Board Members for this season are Flo East, senior advisor, Mrs. Roberta Soward and Mrs. Susan Lawson,
