If you are Southern, you probably love monograms. Period. Full stop. If you don’t, you’ve almost certainly never uttered those words aloud, except maybe to a trusted few confidants. Singing from the rooftops that you don’t love monograms—our favorite regional pastime of slapping personalization on ephemera from hand towels to headbands—would get you run out of town. But how did we get here? And why? At the link in our profile, a mother-daughter pair of experts explain just how our obsession with monograms arose, and why it’s so fun to monogram...well, just about every every-darn-thing. 📷: @robbiecaponetto; 📝: @mcmscott