Southern Girls Beauty and Femininity

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

If Kate can do it, we can too!

so we're comparing a non-professional photo of a bunch of young women hanging around a shitty dorm room to a posed, professional sorority photo?

Wait, the Duggars were in a sorority. Now I'm really confused.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I lived in SC for a few years and picked up some of the style. I really love bright colors and easy fashion. It really doesn't take much effort. Cute, comfortable skirts. Wear prints. Natural makeup (doesn't have to be heavy!). It really is just a few easy tweaks.

Dressing like that in DC is a fast way to get yourself categorized as dumb and not serious at work. It doesn't translate to this city's culture -- which, let's face it, contains elements of the northeast and has a big delegation of frumpy-but-super-intelligent people who disdain southern fashion. It's important to know your audience. This isn't South Carolina, which, bless its heart, will never be the nerve center of the US.

+1

Thank you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
#beautygoals

Those dresses ruined the color settings on my monitor. MY EYES!

+1

How to unsee this?

And several of the girls are nothing special. Not that I am, either.

But since OP is talking about beauty, putting on a brightly-colored dress and flat-ironing the crap out of your hair does not make you beautiful.

[Anonymous]

She can do it, we can too. Pre-princess, Kate was a typical sloppy sloan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I lived in SC for a few years and picked up some of the style. I really love bright colors and easy fashion. It really doesn't take much effort. Cute, comfortable skirts. Wear prints. Natural makeup (doesn't have to be heavy!). It really is just a few easy tweaks.

Dressing like that in DC is a fast way to get yourself categorized as dumb and not serious at work. It doesn't translate to this city's culture -- which, let's face it, contains elements of the northeast and has a big delegation of frumpy-but-super-intelligent people who disdain southern fashion. It's important to know your audience. This isn't South Carolina, which, bless its heart, will never be the nerve center of the US.

I disagree. I don't think you can wear brightly colored clothes or something you'd wear in LA. However, looking nice will always be a better choice than not caring about your appearance. You're naive if you think men and other women here judge you less by appearance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is this romanticizing of the South? You think everyone looks like sorority girls wearing dresses to SEC football games?

Large portions of the South have struggling schools and high unemployment/underemployment. So you're going to see plenty of frumpy people with muffin tops wearing too-tight Hollister t-shirts and shitty flip-flops. Just like anywhere else.

+1

Also, pssst... DC is in the south.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!


Wait, were you serious?

[Anonymous]

woah color!

Some of these outfits can be worn in DC:

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We all have to spend a little time in the morning to be presentable for work (agree with PP who said to do otherwise is to sabotage yourself). The difference is the mindset and the amount of time and money spent. Smart northerners do the bare minimum. Southerners of the type we're talking about spend 1-2 hours per day on hair/makeup. That is insane unless you consider your body your only/most important asset.

THIS.

I couldn't agree more. For many of these women, their looks/bodies are their ONLY assets. Yuck.

And I hate that fake preppy / Lilly Pulitzer / Vineyard Vines look. It's so infantile, useless, and unattractive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kind of like this?

That hair takes at least 1-2 hours to style - shower, blow dry, straighten, curl.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Those poses are ridiculous.

Another "fashion" blogger? Right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I lived in SC for a few years and picked up some of the style. I really love bright colors and easy fashion. It really doesn't take much effort. Cute, comfortable skirts. Wear prints. Natural makeup (doesn't have to be heavy!). It really is just a few easy tweaks.

Dressing like that in DC is a fast way to get yourself categorized as dumb and not serious at work. It doesn't translate to this city's culture -- which, let's face it, contains elements of the northeast and has a big delegation of frumpy-but-super-intelligent people who disdain southern fashion. It's important to know your audience. This isn't South Carolina, which, bless its heart, will never be the nerve center of the US.

I disagree. I don't think you can wear brightly colored clothes or something you'd wear in LA. However, looking nice will always be a better choice than not caring about your appearance. You're naive if you think men and other women here judge you less by appearance.

Spending 20 minutes to look presentable is fine. But telling women they need to spend 1-2 hours to look is not fine. And yes, telling women they shouldn't step out of a house without a mani/pedi, blowout, fake tan, and full face makeup is ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

I lived in SC for a few years and picked up some of the style. I really love bright colors and easy fashion. It really doesn't take much effort. Cute, comfortable skirts. Wear prints. Natural makeup (doesn't have to be heavy!). It really is just a few easy tweaks.

[Anonymous]

I lived in SC for a few years and picked up some of the style. I really love bright colors and easy fashion. It really doesn't take much effort. Cute, comfortable skirts. Wear prints. Natural makeup (doesn't have to be heavy!). It really is just a few easy tweaks.

Whoops, sorry for the preceding post...

I went to school in the South, and was pretty done up, grad school in the NE, and gave up make up, and then first worked in NYC, where women probably spent even more time on their looks than the South, but with very different style goals. I don't think it takes more than 15 minutes to do the Southern belle look:
(1) wear lipstick and blush
(2) wear color
(3) wear (somewhat) body-con clothing
(4) curling iron or flat iron- just do the ends
(5) cute shoes/heels (also holds for NYC)

Of course I don't really do any of this any more (number (5) is particularly a no-go, ow!), but much of doesn't really take time at all, it is just a different style. Which is no better and worse than any other look, though the color is sometimes too much for my eyes now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is this romanticizing of the South? You think everyone looks like sorority girls wearing dresses to SEC football games?

Large portions of the South have struggling schools and high unemployment/underemployment. So you're going to see plenty of frumpy people with muffin tops wearing too-tight Hollister t-shirts and shitty flip-flops. Just like anywhere else.

+1

Also, pssst... DC is in the south.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!


Wait, were you serious?

Yes. Look at a map. See the Mason-Dixon Line? DC is below it.

We may have lost most of our southern affect and culture because of the constant churn in residents from all over, but, geographically, yes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is this romanticizing of the South? You think everyone looks like sorority girls wearing dresses to SEC football games?

Large portions of the South have struggling schools and high unemployment/underemployment. So you're going to see plenty of frumpy people with muffin tops wearing too-tight Hollister t-shirts and shitty flip-flops. Just like anywhere else.

+1

Also, pssst... DC is in the south.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!


Wait, were you serious?

Yes. Look at a map. See the Mason-Dixon Line? DC is below it.

We may have lost most of our southern affect and culture because of the constant churn in residents from all over, but, geographically, yes.

... and it wasn't too long ago that NOVA shared the 703 area code with Central VA.