Sadie Hawkins dance is a high school and college tradition that takes place in November.
It was reported in 1952 that Sadie Hawkins Day was celebrated at over 40,000 different locations. In that year, Al Capp wrote:
It’s become my responsibility [to include Sadie Hawkins Day every year in the strip.] It doesn’t happen on any set day in November; it happens on the day I say it happens. I get tens of thousands of letters from colleges, communities, and church groups, starting around July, asking me what day, so they can make plans.
Sadie Hawkins was one of the more unlovely young women in the podunk Southern town of Dogpatch, USA, a girl so plain that she was perennially without suitors. To get her married and out of the house, her father, Hekzebiah Hawkins, organized a foot race for all the single men in the area. It was more of a hunt, really: the guys were given a head start, and Sadie was to sprint after them. If she caught one, she got to marry him.
Sadie Hawkins was a character in the massively popular comic strip Li'l Abner, created by the cartoonist Al Capp, and her namesake day was a similarly fictional event. The first Sadie Hawkins Day appeared in the strip in November 1937, three years after Li'l Abner debuted in newspapers, and promptly became a recurring part of the strip's plot as the race was extended to all the bachelorettes in Dogpatch.
You can read more about The History of Sadie Hawkins Day at the following sites:
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