azalea trail maids
Every year since the 1920s, the Southern US city of Mobile, Alabama, has chosen 50 of its brightest, most accomplished young women to serve as Azalea Trail Maids – ceremonial ambassadors meant to showcase Mobile’s brand of Southern hospitality.
They pop up every spring – like the bold, flowering azalea shrubs lining the streets of Mobile – wearing poufy, pastel dresses about as wide as your arm span and as heavy as 10 bricks. Their job is mostly to
