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Southern women love to monogram everything, and I do mean everything. Towels, bags, toiletry cases, soap, you name it, we’ll monogram it. When I made my formal debut I even received a soft little portable cooler with a polka-dot handle and a monogram on it. (Because every debutante must have a inconspicuous way to carry [...]

One of my favorite fashion eras are the 1920′s. My great-grandmother was born in 1901 and passed away when she was only three weeks shy of her 100th birthday. There are many pictures of her in my house in Alabama. I love to study them in great detail because they depict the evolution of fashion. [...]

I don’t like anything that is trendy or that has experienced mass popularity. I feel like overexposure of a product makes it lose whatever quality it had that made it endearing in the first place. David Yurman is pretty much the gold standard of jewelry in Dallas, especially at SMU. During rush parties, girls will [...]

When I first entered SMU, I thought my mother was kidding when she said that I would need every strand of pearls I had ever owned once I arrived on campus. It didn’t take me long to find out that she was far from kidding. Women on SMU’s campus wear pearls with their sorority jerseys [...]

I’ve always been a fan of Hermes scarves but I am always hesitant to wear them because, worn the wrong way, they can make your look so outdated. (I am all for classicism but I don’t want to look like a fashionably confused version of my grandmother!) This Alexis Bittar pin can be a cleaver [...]

I think right hand rings are extremely important for single and taken women alike. I personally wear a diamond ring on my right hand that was passed down to me from my mother and a light blue topaz ring on my left hand that my great-grandmother purchased in Greece as my mother’s high school graduation [...]