Best Place to Shop If You Have Reese Witherspoon’s Paycheck

Photo: Eric England

I both love and loathe Draper James. Many of the clothes — stuffy dresses, shapeless sweaters and pleated skirts — look like they’re made for the modern Belle Meade Stepford Wife (and max out at size L). And all the accessories (literally all of them — from the scarves and mittens to the purses and keychains) carry slogans that end in “y’all”. “Cheers, y’all,” “Vote, y’all,” “It’s fall, y’all,” … BARF, Y’ALL. And, to crank the Southern pride to an obnoxious level, everything, INCLUDING THE DOG TOYS, is covered in gingham. I also like to think that if I were raking in a cool $15 million in a year like the shop’s owner Reese Witherspoon did in 2015, I wouldn’t give a damn, and I’d go to Draper James and BUY. IT. ALL. The Kiss My Grits brunch plates, the $175 pink tortoise sunglasses — all of it. But until working at a weekly paper results in earning millions of bucks (MY DAY WILL COME!), I’ll have to settle for wandering into the hoity-toity 12South shop from time to time to indulge my fantasies while sipping on sweet tea. MEGAN SELING

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