Sadie Hawkins Day 2024 is on Friday, November 1, 2024: what is Sadie Hawkins Day?

Friday, November 1, 2024 is Sadie Hawkins Day 2024. An American folk event, Sadie Hawkins Day is a pseudo-holiday that originated in Al Capp's classic hillbilly comic strip, Li'l Abner (1934–1978).

An American folk event, Sadie Hawkins Day is a pseudo-holiday that originated in Al Capp's classic hillbilly comic strip, Li'l Abner (1934–1978).

Sadie Hawkins Day was named for a cartoon character developed by Al Capp for his Li'l Abner comic strip. Sadie Hawkins was so ugly that her father, Mayor of Dog Patch, U.S.A., feared he would never marry her off. In desperation, he decreed a Sadie Hawkins Day. All unmarried men in Dogpatch would get a ten minute head start before Sadie and the other unmarried women began running after them. The man each woman caught would end up in front of Marryin' Sam for a shotgun wedding.

At Morris Harvey, the rules allowed all the female "residents" to chase their men, who were given a ten second head start. The men were not allowed to run out of bounds or past the fifty yard line. When the race was over, couples would line up to be married by Marryin' Sam. Participants dressed in the "hillbilly" costumes shown in the comic strip. The costumes for women, off-the-shoulder blouses and mid-thigh or shorter ragged edge skirts, were quite brief in relation to the usual attire of the 1930's-1950's. Parents sometimes objected to the amount of bare leg being shown by their daughters.

The names of persons holding roles other than Li'l Abner and Daisy Mae were not usually recorded, not even the names of the girls portraying Sadie Hawkins herself. Some of the other characters who were portrayed were Marryin' Sam, Earthquake McGoon, The Wolf Girl, Moonbeam McSwine, Hannibal Hoops, Mammy Yokum, and Pappy Yokum.

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Sadie Hawkins Day was a day-long event in Al Capp's comic strip Li'l Abner observed in the United States on the Saturday that follows November 9, named after Sadie Hawkins, "the homeliest gal in all them hills." Each year on Sadie Hawkins Day, the unmarried women of Dogpatch pursued the single men. If a woman caught a man and dragged him back to the starting line by sundown, he had to marry her.

The 1st Sadie Hawkins Day

[edit] The first Sadie Hawkins Day

Sadie Hawkins was the daughter of one of Dogpatch's earliest settlers, Hekzebiah Hawkins. When she reached the age of 35, still a spinster, her father in desperation called together the eligible bachelors of Dogpatch and declared that day to be Sadie Hawkins Day and that "when ah fires [my gun] all o' yo' start a-runnin! When ah fires agin - after givin' yo' a fair start - Sadie starts a runnin'. Th' one she ketches'll be her husband."

The town spinsters decided that this was such a good idea, they made Sadie Hawkins Day an annual event, much to the chagrin of Dogpatch bachelors everywhere. (See leap year for discussion of a similar tradition of "allowing" women to propose marriage on February 29.)

Sadie Hawkins Day was first mentioned in the November 13, 1937 Li'l Abner strip with the race actually taking place between the November 19th and November 30th strips. It would prove to be an annual event in the strip.[1]

[edit] Sadie Hawkins Day in popular culture

Sadie Hawkins Day captured the imagination of many young, particularly on campuses. A Life magazine headline reported, in 1939, that "On Sadie Hawkins Day, Girls Chase Boys in 201 Colleges" and printed pictures from Texas Wesleyan.

Many US high schools, especially in the Midwest and South, hold Sadie Hawkins day dances. These dances are characterized by girls asking boys for dates, and matching farmer clothes being worn to the dance. This dance is also occasionally called "T.W.I.R.P." (The Woman Is Responsible to Pay), in which girls ask boys, pay for dinner, dance tickets, etc.

Abilene Christian University celebrates a Sadie Hawkins Week, rather than only one day.[2] However, there is no associated dance, in light of the school's traditional policy prohibiting social dancing

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Sadie Hawkins lived in the late 19th century, according to cartoonist Al Capp, when he created her, drawing "LiL Abner." Sadie would wear her hair in two pigtails. She would wear a full-length dress with long, puffy sleeves, fluffed up about the bust line, and flowing. Try really big polka dots. But Sadie Hawkins was really ugly. That is why her rich and powerful father had to organize the Sadie Hawkins Day Race, wherein all eligible bachelors were compelled to set out running at a starting gun, with Sadie and all the other unmarried girls of Dogpatch following close behind. The bachelor had to marry the girl who caught him. To be as ugly as Sadie, you will have to get yourself a set of Joe-Bob teeth. These are available on the internet.