More Than Just A Dress
More Than Just A Dress The Mobile Azalea Trail Maids participating in the Magic Kingdom's annual Easter Parade at Walt Disney World. Easter Sunday 2019 As some of you know the Azalea Trail Maids came under scrutiny early Friday morning when blogger 'Growing Mobile' shared his thoughts on how the dress worn by the official ambassadors for our city are viewed as racially insensitive through his eyes; and it is well within his rights to view them in any way he chooses. According to the June 12th article posted on Bama News Now , the author described the dress as something straight out of "Gone with the Wind, "a sign of the past when slavery flourished throughout the South, and that Mobile should distance itself from the program. Needless to say, it ruffled a few layers of fabric. When the program was created in 1934, the Trail Maids, as they are more commonly known, served as the hostess for the annual Azalea Festival (est...