"Sweet Home Kappa Gamma"

[AlphaFrog]

^^Right. Also, palm trees, pearls, polo shirts, Lilly Pulitzer, Vineyard Vines, white gloves, floppy sun hats, and anything else you would associate with Afternoon Tea.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

^^Right. Also, palm trees, pearls, polo shirts, Lilly Pulitzer, Vineyard Vines, white gloves, floppy sun hats, and anything else you would associate with Afternoon Tea.

Palm trees only work in some coastal regions of the South. (And if you're talking about palmetto trees, they're South Carolina-specific.) Elsewhere, they're foreign.

And I have to diss Vineyard Vines as nouveau Southern.

Go with seersucker instead.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Palm trees only work in some coastal regions of the South. (And if you're talking about palmetto trees, they're South Carolina-specific.) Elsewhere, they're foreign.

And I have to diss Vineyard Vines as nouveau Southern.

Go with seersucker instead.

I had Southeast in my mind when making my list but either way, for someone who came here (5 months ago, as you pointed out) looking for ideas and thinking cowboys and sunflowers, chances are she's in a region that couldn't tell Lilly from VV. And my daughter has a VV that IS seersucker, so, there's that.

[MysticCat]

back at you. so there.


But speaking of palmetto, here's a Southern Living arrangement that uses pineapples and palmetto fronds, pampas grass and magnolia leaves: