A Southern Belle wearing an evening dress, circa 1860. Southern Belles were the debutantes of the planter class in the Antebellum South i.e. before the American Civil War. They were supposed Southern Belle Dresses Florida Memory Southern Belle Barbara Windham (later Fritch) in a pink antique dress at the Cypress Gardens theme park in Winter Haven. Womens Southern Belle Dress Etsy Southern Belle Dress TwirlingDresses Southern Belle dresses