preppies: search and destroy!!!

destroy: duck boots and bermuda bags

search: New Canaan Country School

destroy: Greenwich Academy, our mortal enemies.

OK, i'm going to hand the computer to suzy now, and we can FITE!!!

They're usually performance or video artists, specializing in the "how ya like me now, MOM?!" school of art.

at least i'm NOT a performance artist.

how do you know you're a preppy bad girl? when your mum gives you a credit card "for emergencies only" and running out of scotch qualifies as an emergency.

Search - Preppies hanging a sweater around your neck with the arms tied tightly

Green Lacoste shirt, monogrammed navy sweater with green cuffs and collar, green OshKosh chinos, Docksiders, navy and green striped socks (chinos swopped with Black Watch kilt on occasion, Docksiders swopped with penny loafers containing pennies).

Pink Lacoste shirt, darker pink Fair Isle sweater with blue, white and light pink in yoke pattern, winter white corduroy plus-fours, argyle socks to match, blue duck shoes.

Red sweater, white button-down Oxford, indigo Calvin Kleins, Fred Perry trainers (key to transitional mod phase to come).

Other 'search': 'Ordinary People', pearls for 21st birthday, films starring Cary Grant, The Great Gatsby (see above grandparents who lived next door to Fitzgerald's birthplace), John Cheever, Love Story, The Virgin Suicides, Bermuda bags with fifty million changeable covers, some with monogramming.

Destroy: fraternities and sororities, country clubs, Edina MN (the town so WASP its school mascot is a hornet), nicknames like Chip (it means "Junior", ie. chip off the old block) and Trip (as in 'triple', if you're John Doe III).

I did the art college thing, but not as a runaway preppie. My mum was about as far from a preppie as could be expected, leading me to believe my dad had some issues about girls who could play tennis as opposed to girls who yearly nominate a Best Ass at Wimbledon.

Kate is unpacking and will return shortly.

However, the beaches were quite nice. Gah, what was the name of that really beach? Was it Calf Pasture, or was that the skanky welfare beach in Norwalk? I'm sorry, I haven't been to any of these places since I was about 12. I learned to sail on the Long Island Sound. Said best friend from Darien was a member of the country club. It was really awful to have to go swimming and run into all the same Woolworths and Vanderbuilts that used to beat me up in homeroom coz they were jealous of my accent.

I can still remember walking into a restaurant in Westport with my mum and seeing Paul Newman and Robert Redford having dinner. This impressed my mum far more than it impressed me.

search: field hockey. watch those shins!
destroy: lacrosse. not. a. sport.

you don't qualify as a real preppie unless you've had a tailgate picnic party from the back of a volvo during the harvard/yale grudge match. oh, that stupid freaking bulldog...

I went to a pre-prep Jr. High. Even though I did grow up on the wrong side of Connecticut, haha. I was snatched out of my local Catholic grammar school and I loved every minute of it. I didn't really get preppy wear at the time, I thought "Why is everyone wearing those shirts with the stupid alligators on them? They look like babies!". Also--Docksiders or Topsiders or whatever you call that ugly boating footwear, yuck. Anyway, everyone else went on to Phillips Andover or Concord or something like that, while I was dragged back to Catholic high school hell, where i blossomed into the rad punker I am today.

I'd kill for a pink lacoste, now, though.

docksiders=SHITE but penny loafers were ACE. the kids at my school were so spoiled they put quarters in their penny slots. sigh...

andover vs. exeter: FITE!!!

i always wondered if there was any correlation between the expensiveness of the prep school and the number of names it had- my brother always tried to claim that his school was better than mine cause his had three initials (NMH) while mine only had two (DS). of course, sibling rivalry being what it was, his school WAS better, but it was cause my parents loved him more, not cause it had more names. grrrrrr.

my brother still belongs to a yachting club, i don't. so there.

destroy: kids who get ferraris when they turn 15, Vanderbilt, people who call self-declare themselves "jewish american princess" in a non-ironic way, Starbucks and all things/people associated with it

Kate seemingly has confused indians with preppies. Lacross is the only as brutal as Aussie rules.

Ha! Many preppies are wealthy, but a hallmark of preppiness is its relative low-key display of wealth (this is somewhat related to, but not to be confused with, "good taste"). The car you'd really get on your 16th birthday would be a VW Golf. If you're really lucky, a Cabriolet. You wouldn't see Ferraris in Darien, anyway. Greenwich, definately.

Destroy: guys/girls who adorn preppy garments in totally appropriate contexts

*that guy is me

http://www.hockey1.com/images/sizing/Shin.gif

i miss those little kilts that we used to wear, though. they were great for afterschool quickchanges into punkers!!!

http://lacrosse.or.kr/images/fight.jpg

that had been returned or had some error in the monogramming. I still kick myself that I didn't buy the one that was monogrammed "EMO".

man, do you get the golden lab puppy with the bag? all preppies have to have golden labradors, black labs, irish setters and/or dalmations running around their country homes in large packs. it's just one of those things.

Oh dear Lord, I thought precisely that when I looked at the photo. Because I was always getting penalised for that at school. However, my class was always grateful for the steaming shots I'd hit off down the field and which the opposition would jump to get out of the way of. *sigh* displacing adolescent rage into violent sports. But this was English grammar school and thus not preppy in the slightest, particularly since Medway Towns girls (even the ones who had the nous to pass the 11-plus exam) are pretty much all vile slags.

Destroy:
Abercombie & Fitch (or whatever the hell it's called)-type big logos on hats and nice sweaters and so-forth; preps that try to combine nice clothes with a nu metal look (I guess I'm talking about boys there); fancy cars that aren't that cool (expensive SUVs); rockers whose parents give them money to support their guitar habits (though, yes, I'm totally jealous)

http://www.marcata.net/walkmen/images/14.jpg

Hmm, unless early David Byrne is your template for cool, I fail to see how preppy clothes can *ever* = rock n roll.

And I forgot:
Destroy: All preps from Middle school with names like Selena and Tatti

They do.

the prep school boy/girl gone bad is the hallmark of early indie.

how to tell a REAL prep: artificial fabrics have never actually touched their skin. REAL preps just don't do polyester or other artificial fibre.

mmmm, jonathan fire*eater, now THEY were some tasty lads. they were so clean cut and lovely when they started. at least until the smack habits started. such a shame... hate the walkmen, can't get my head around the singer's voice, and besides, french kicks are doing preppy garage so much better. french kicks, mmmmmmmmmmm!!! nick kicks saved me from the strokes, bless him.

1. Stephen Malkmus
2. Chris Franz
3. Thirstin Howell III
4. Thurston Moore
5. Rich from LFO
6. Lisa Loeb
7. Jamie Walters
8. Juliana Hatfield
9. Billy from Dino, Desi & Billy
10. Neil Hagerty

oh, here is a fantasy pile of dirty boys for me... the walkmen and french kicks, all lying in a big pile. YUM!!! can i jump in, please?

http://www.marcata.net/walkmen/images/gettingfrevis.jpg

http://www.marcata.net/walkmen/tour/freelevis.jpg

After reading through this thread, I'm amazed at how much of my dress is considered preppy! I rock the Mr. Rogers sweater, I rock the cardigan! And I do it so unironically that it's entirely IRONICAL!!!!

It's all part of my promotion scheme for my band...we're totally dorky rapcore emofunk! The heaviest band to ever wear cardigans! The nerdiest 'with-the-vocalist-pushing-his-glasses-up-onto-his-nose-while-spittin'-it' rap/metal band evah!

http://thestrokes.ordinarypictures.com/julprov2.jpg

vs.

http://www.underexposed.org.uk/kicks/kicks9.jpg

NICK KICKS' ASS KICKS ASS!!!

(oh my god, is that me in the background of that second pic? could very well be, me and suzy were both at that show.)

http://www.uwosh.edu/archives/sports/images/wrestling.jpg

D Generation? fuck no! ugh! they used to rehearse upstairs from my old band, and they were fucking jerks, as well as ugly. feh! it was so much better back when jeff buckley used to rehearse upstairs, he was lovely and nice and polite and used to hold the door open for me and everything. d-generation were cunts. and their club was rubbish, as well. they actually CHARGED ME to get into a gig i was playing at.

d-generation were just too... i dunno, nyc dolls for me, lookswise. too 70s, not 60s enough.

(why is ilx so obsessed with slash and lezzing up?)

and i don't see the point of calling a shirt an 'Oxford' either...

however, vest and tank top seem to be exactly opposite in uk and us.

do i have this right? i'm confused.

vest us = sweater type thing with no arms, or middle part of 3-piece suit
tank top us = wifebeater

vest uk = wifebeater
tank top uk = sweater thing with no arms

have i got that the right way around?

Yes. Oxford is the cloth it's made of (the other, smooth type is poplin) not the shirt itself.

http://www.churchsshoes.com/TEMPLATE/FrontEnd/Images/BlswrthBmfrd.gif


The upper of the two shoes here is an Oxford ('dress' type lace-up, can be in black or brown leather, or suede - a lot of manufacturers now seem to think *any* unornamented shoe in black leather can be called an Oxford, for example this monstrousity:

http://www.hedi.com/Mens_Shoes/havana_joe/hj0202_lg.jpg

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You Know You're In A Preppie Enclave When . . .
the PA in the stationery store comes on and says "Someone to front counter. Customer needs help finding cocktail napkins with the little frogs on them." This really happened in 2003! And during the war, I swear!

Boast (Because You Don't Have To)

d: the neighboring all-boys' school and teva sandals and birkenstocks worn with wool rag socks and patagonia fleeces and family names and getting yelled at in morning chapel for smelling like cigarettes and lots of other things to distasteful to recall

d: the smelly trustafarians at the prep school down the street from here

i read that as weed and argyle.

All the available patterns violate the no-purple 12th Commandment of Prep.

http://merrygoround.free.fr/mgr%20photos/grand/The%20Walkmen%203.jpg

i think this thread has officially become a free-for-all for preppy pr0n. fire away.

-- stockholm cindy (jod...), March 10th, 2004 12:48 PM. (Jody Beth Rosen) (later) (link)

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it's all about tweed and argyle this season!
i read that as weed and argyle.

-- stockholm cindy (jod...), March 10th, 2004 12:49 PM. (Jody Beth Rosen) (later) (link)

doubly OTM (pls don't beat me up for appreciating your b/f's style)