A cocktail in her hand and confetti in her hair.
November 2010
“Real Southern Ladies and Gentlemen love a good time.
I never have understood why people seem to think that to be a Southern gentleman, one has to act like some sort of artificial Victorian caricature. Ladies and gentlemen in the Old South loved a good time as much as they loved God and family. Good Southern society has always been an easygoing mixture of idealism and hedonism. It may at times be hypocritical, but it has an ideal to aim for, and it has socially accepted ways of handling the fact that we are all human. Though most Southerners are Protestant, this understanding of sin among the better classes of the South is very Catholic.” —
I never have understood why people seem to think that to be a Southern gentleman, one has to act like some sort of artificial Victorian caricature. Ladies and gentlemen in the Old South loved a good time as much as they loved God and family. Good Southern society has always been an easygoing mixture of idealism and hedonism. It may at times be hypocritical, but it has an ideal to aim for, and it has socially accepted ways of handling the fact that we are all human. Though most Southerners are Protestant, this understanding of sin among the better classes of the South is very Catholic.” —
via Social Primer
Now that’s how you wear color in the Fall.
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