How to be a Southern Belle

Belle Difficulty Level: hard Time Required: 10,512,000 minutes

 

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Here's How:


1.Offer Mint Julep or Iced Tea to everyone who visits your house.


2.Eat grits everyday for breakfast.


3.Refer to your house as "The Plantation" no matter how small your house may be.


4.Refer to all men as "gentlemen caller" or "beaux".


5.Never let a man know you're interested or chase him because you know there are too many men who want you for you to expend the extra effort.


6.When you have a dating dilemma and have one gentleman caller over when you are expecting another, claim to be "expired" and excuse yourself for a nap until he leaves.


7.Whenever you are asked to do any work, fan yourself and claim to have the "vapors."


8.Refer to every party you go to, even a kegger at the local university, as a "cotillion." All other parties are yankee garbage.


9.Try to use words like "darlin'", "sweet" or "precious" in every sentence.


10.Belong to a country club. If you don't, refer to any club you belong to as a "country club". No one will know the difference.


11.Set under a magnolia tree with a parasol fanning yourself often. Passers-by will take notice of your belle-ness.


12.Never marry a Yankee unless you want to be a Yankee by association.


13.Never be seen without your makeup and girdle.


Tips:


1.A parasol and an umbrella are not the same thing. If you refer to your parasol as an "umbrelly" you will never be a belle.


2.Being a belle is a lifetime of work so practice everyday.


Southern belle

Re-posted from the Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Cover illustration of Harper's Weekly, September 7, 1861 showing a stereotypical Southern belleA southern belle (derived from the French word belle, 'beautiful') is an archetype for a young woman of the American Old South's upper class.

 

During the period, Kentuckian Sallie Ward of Louisville was the most noted belle in the South, and her portrait, which hangs in the Speed Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, is often called "The Southern Belle." A Southern belle epitomized Southern hospitality, cultivation of beauty and a flirtatious yet chaste demeanor.

The archetype continues to have a powerful aspirational draw for many people, and books like We're Just Like You, Only Prettier, The Southern Belle Primer, and The Southern Belle Handbook are plentiful. Other current terms in popular culture related to "Southern belles" include "Ya Ya Sisters," "GRITS (Girls Raised In The South)," and "Sweet Potato Queens." Today, a Southern Belle is also another name for a débutante from the southern United States.