Southern belle style

A Southern Belle is a title that traditionally refers to a woman who has been presented into a society through a debutante ball or a cotillion. The term is more commonly used to describe a woman who embodies a certain attitude, appearance,...

It's June!!! Memorial Day has come and gone so that means it's officially summer in the Dorsch household! May was a wonderful month full of traveling and a lot of family beach time and I loved every second of it! I can't wait to see what the rest of the summer brings, but until then

The North is a direction. The South is a lifestyle As a young girl born and raised in Kentucky, I was taught the ways of the South. My mama didn’t raise no fool- and because of that, I have i…

Spring is on my mind and incorporating flowers in unexpected ways is a fun style challenge I like to take on. There’s nothing groundbreaking with wearing florals for Spring (*insert The Devil Wears Prada Miranda priestly gif). Trying to reinvent a classic is what’s going to take your floral frock up a notch. Try incorporating...

When my Grandma passed away she left a lot of sewing patterns and even a very old sewing machine from my Great Grandma behind that I inherited. My mom brought them over in a box and said "you're the only one that sews in the family so I thought you'd want these." To be honest, I was very excited about this stuffy box of sewing patterns. Many of them had little notes about what to alter and or take in and measurements of my mom and aunts as teens. It was fun to see what she was designing or…

October is the official start of the holiday season and first up is Halloween. This year, black women have given us more than enough inspiration to nail that perfect Halloween look. One woman in particular, Queen Bey, provided us with the masterpiece that is “Lemonade”, which debuted back in April. On a cultural level, the visual […]

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These Southern sayings makes absolutely no sense to the rest of the country.

Everybody has a Grandma, Mimi, or Nana, but nobody has a Mema quite like mine.

There are degrees of belleness. You can have a silver pattern and still go noodling. What degree of belle are you?

The Southern Belle Starter kit

I hope y'all had a wonderful weekend. We rested up here, since W had a stomach bug. Saying prayers right now that no one else around here gets it! Hopefully she'll be able to make it to school tomorrow, since she's feeling better today. This month's Matchbook magazine was such a great read! My favorite

Tale as old as time 🌼

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Reese Witherspoon is making major waves with her new Southern-inspired lifestyle brand, Draper James. She opened her flagship store in Nashville, wears pieces