ive just always wondered. does anyone know? 10 points?
2007-08-07 16:55:44 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Dancing
In a very popular comic strip from The Depression called "Li'l Abner," Sadie Hawkins was a guy-crazy character who couldn't get a date. If she caught a fella, he'd have to go to the barn dance with her.
So as the years went by, a Sadie Hawkins Dance came to mean the girls ask the guys to the dance.
2007-08-07 17:02:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
The Sadie Hawkins dance is named after the Li'l Abner comic strip character Sadie Hawkins. November 15 was Sadie Hawkins day, when the unmarried women of Dogpatch got to chase the bachelors and marry the ones they caught. In America this caught on quickly and evolved into a dance where the women got to invite a man of their choice.
2007-08-08 00:07:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm sure this is just a drop in the bucket of sadie hawkins day/dance stories....
On November 15, 1937, cartoonist Al Capp created a holiday in strip form only. Sadie Hawkins was the ugliest woman in Dogpatch. Her father, Hekzebiah Hawkins feared his spinster daughter would live with him the rest of his life. He declared a footrace in which all the homely gals in the county would run after the available men. If they caught one, the men would have to marry them.
Although this was just fiction, Al Capp had a popular following who campaigned this become an annual theme in the strip. This fictious holiday took on a life of it's own, sort of a reverse Valentine's Day where the women were empowered to make the first move on the man.
Hundreds of schools and colleges had a Sadie Hawkins' Day celebration where the female students were encouraged to ask the male students to a dance.
2007-08-08 00:04:47 · answer #3 · answered by Lyn R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fron an old comic strip entitled "Li'l Abner". Sadie Hawkins' Day in the strip was the day that women could ask men to marry. It morphed into the practice of women asking men to the dance and also to dance. The strip launched a lot of stuff. A group of lovable characters called "Schmoos" came along decades before the Smurfs.
2007-08-08 00:05:28 · answer #4 · answered by desertviking_00 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All the above!!! they beat me to it!!!
2007-08-08 00:38:24 · answer #5 · answered by eagle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋