Who is Sadie Hawkins?
by Sara Jewkes
Flyer Flash, Staff Writer
ST. GEORGE - Have you ever wondered who Sadie Hawkins was and why we have a dance named after her? Is she a real person or just someone made up?
Dixie High senior, Abbey Eyre said, “Sadie Hawkins was a girl who thought it was dumb that only guys ever got to ask girls to dances so she petitioned and got a girls choice dance started.” Senior, Mary Bringhurst said “I think it was a girl that hunted hawks.”
If you thought that Sadie Hawkins was a real girl or she was a girl that hunted hawks sorry, you are wrong. Sadie Hawkins came from the idea of the comic, Lil’ Abner, written in the 1930s, when unmarried women could chase bachelors around the town in hopes of catching them for marriage.
Sadie Hawkins was “the homeliest gal in all them hills." The day of chasing boys to marry and trying to get the boys to dance with the girls was her favorite day of the year. Within two years of starting Sadie’s over 200 colleges were holding Sadie Hawkins dances.
Sadies gave girls a chance to ask guys to a dance and since it was started during the time of the Great Depression it was evolved around hillbilly characters, so people could easily afford costumes. That’s why Sadie’s is a dance that doesn’t have to do with big formal dresses.
So, Sadie Hawkins wasn’t an actual girl, she was just a girl in a comic strip. Most girls at Dixie High are similar to Sadie Hawkins, they want a guy to go to a dance with.
Dixie High senior, Abbey Eyre said, “Sadie Hawkins was a girl who thought it was dumb that only guys ever got to ask girls to dances so she petitioned and got a girls choice dance started.” Senior, Mary Bringhurst said “I think it was a girl that hunted hawks.”
If you thought that Sadie Hawkins was a real girl or she was a girl that hunted hawks sorry, you are wrong. Sadie Hawkins came from the idea of the comic, Lil’ Abner, written in the 1930s, when unmarried women could chase bachelors around the town in hopes of catching them for marriage.
Sadie Hawkins was “the homeliest gal in all them hills." The day of chasing boys to marry and trying to get the boys to dance with the girls was her favorite day of the year. Within two years of starting Sadie’s over 200 colleges were holding Sadie Hawkins dances.
Sadies gave girls a chance to ask guys to a dance and since it was started during the time of the Great Depression it was evolved around hillbilly characters, so people could easily afford costumes. That’s why Sadie’s is a dance that doesn’t have to do with big formal dresses.
So, Sadie Hawkins wasn’t an actual girl, she was just a girl in a comic strip. Most girls at Dixie High are similar to Sadie Hawkins, they want a guy to go to a dance with.
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