Arts & Culture

Test Your Southern Style IQ

How well do you know the region’s iconic home, fashion, garden, and design lore?
a woman in a purple dress walks the runway

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Resort wear on the runway, courtesy of question number 1 below.

1. Which Southern style icon made colorful resort wear glamorous?
2. What type of tall, floor-length window do you find in many Southern houses built before the advent of air conditioning?
3. Which movie featured an iconic Southern wedding designed around the colors “blush and bashful”?
4. Which Southern paint color purportedly keeps both evil spirits and bugs away?
5. Which trio of Southern cities are often considered “sister cities” because of their shared architecture, gardens, and historic charm?
6. Which Southern flower is traditionally floated in a bowl of water rather than arranged in a vase?
7. Which living Southern designer turned the monogram into an art form?
8. Which fabric is most closely associated with Southern lawyers?
9. Which Southern supermodel hails from Charleston, South Carolina?
10. Which legendary interior designer transformed the Greenbrier resort with her exuberant oversized floral designs?
11. Which metal is traditionally used for a proper Southern julep cup?
12. Which room is the unofficial headquarters of summer hospitality in the South?

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