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Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS
Yeah but it's important to note that "fraternity men" aren't the only ones wearing the bowties with the crabs or marlins on them or any of that other stuff. Don't give them too much credit. 
And I think this is where people need to stop putting "Southern" in one category. What a lot of people on this board consider "Southern," I and the people I associate with do not--this would be justified by telling us that we aren't from the Deep South, of course, but even the people I know who are from the Deep South don't conform to this Southern style that I keep reading about.
And your father's side of the family are Alabama farmers but thatmight be a different type of "Southern" than some of these "Southern preps" are talking about.
I think there are extremes that are almost caricatures of "Southern." It goes back to what I said about people trying really hard to shove their "Southern-ness" in your face and make you believe that they are "preppy" or come from "old money." |
you hit the nail on the head of what i'm trying to say.
because my family doesn't come from money yet they have a long southern lineage, they don't need all of the fancy clothes to show it to anyone. I feel like some people are describing the wardrobe as something that classifies the area around the SEC schools, when in reality its something really more so on college campuses that a preppy or greek person would wear.