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flattered, but unfortunately no. However I like the sweater.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 19:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

sean, if you go for rough trade this proofs that cardigans can be your passport to heaven

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

― dakatin, Tuesday, 3 December 2002 19:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

see french kicks pic above for my usual type. hey, i'm going through a palate cleansing phase...

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.

― kate, Tuesday, 3 December 2002 19:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

this is thread where everybody leaves his senses...hooray!

― erik unmasked...hooray!, Tuesday, 3 December 2002 19:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

I guess they weren't really cute, it's just the overall look I guess. Is the club you're referring to Green Door? I thought it was fab! My friend Doug DeMille dj'ed there once, and when pal Billy Beyond from Beige showed up, he started playing Carpenters tracks at top volume... ok that part wasn't so fab.

― Sean (Sean), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 19:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

Dressing like a prep = classic, esp at a Motorhead concert.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 19:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

well, the club i referred to was actually the venue, Coney Island High. used to get offered smack or crack in the toilets, ugh. i don't think i ever actually went to green door (the night). They used to hold the GarageRage festivals there. aaahhh, my first kiss with the Great Lost Love Of My Life happened on the dance floor at one of them... And the last show i ever went to in NYC was there (the BJM). but still, i hated the place, fake ddb's and shb's always propping up the bar. and only one of the bartenders there ever gave me a free drink. i always used to judge nyc bars by how many free drinks i got there, heh.

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

― kate, Tuesday, 3 December 2002 19:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

But pulling it off with no twist isn't as good. Flaming pink oxford under a black sweater and jean jacket with slightly flared pants and sort of hip-hoppy zip-up black shoes = classic.

― I can't believe I just typed that (sundar), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 19:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

Dang Chris! That last picture you posted...dang it's giving me some dirty ideas...two cute indie rockers on a bed, with beer...rowrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 20:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

yeah, don't you just want to get in there?

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

― kate, Tuesday, 3 December 2002 20:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

i still want to know what a 'sweater vest' is...

― michael (michael), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 13:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

cd it be what we Brits call a TANK TOP!?!

― katie (katie), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 13:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.acitinc.com/apparel/styl861.jpg

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 13:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

i thought that maybe. or else a cardigan.

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

― michael (michael), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 13:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

ahhh... it is a tank-top

― michael (michael), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 13:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

i think the dictionary definition of vest is a shirt without arms.

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?

― kate, Wednesday, 4 December 2002 13:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

Doesn't US vest also mean UK waistcoat?

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 13:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

Doh!

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 13:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

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

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

― David (David), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 16:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

Kate--I was a bartender at Coney Island High. I wonder if it was me? I'd give away a drink to anyone who so much as winked at me, I was the easiest bartender in the world. God, I hated the crowd there most of the time, though, you're right. Awful aging NYC hardcore creeps, as well as the fake ddb's. What's a shb? A shit hot boy? There weren't many of them around. Anyway, the D Generation people were actually really sweet, I'm surprised you had a bad experience with them. But then, I've known them all since they were 2.

― Arthur (Arthur), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 17:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

two months pass...

Mary: Since I know you love all things preppie, the preppie strangler got out of prison just in time for Valentine's Day!

― felicity (felicity), Friday, 14 February 2003 19:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thanks Felicity. I went to Coney Island High & Green Door -- & I never got offered herion in the bathroom :(

― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 16 February 2003 03:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Bleh. Destroy: Chambers

― rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 16 February 2003 03:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

one month passes...

Oh, for the love of God, am I the only one who remembers "Boast"?

http://tess2.uspto.gov/webaka/images/73570454.gif

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!

― felicity (felicity), Friday, 11 April 2003 15:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

I for one will never forget it after last night.

Boast (Because You Don't Have To)

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 11 April 2003 16:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

one month passes...

Search:
Bridge
http://www.mmax.org/iamr/mono/JAPPOP_IMAGES/bridge.jpg
&
Hideki Kaji
http://www.gullbuy.com/graphics/00/1timecashbuy/kaji.jpg

― Mary (Mary), Saturday, 31 May 2003 04:20 (twenty years ago) link

nine months pass...

...throw in The Ocean Blue too...Probally the most JCrew of the preppy musicians

― azz, Wednesday, 10 March 2004 19:36 (twenty years ago) link

this thread is really, really funny and also kind of strange - at one point kate goes off on a long tangent praising the ass of one of my friends. i did not expect to find that.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 20:27 (twenty years ago) link

Well, is she right or not? I was at the show but I remember no arse. I'm assuming it's NOT Casablancarse.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 20:29 (twenty years ago) link

ha, no it's not jules. his ass was okay up until about 2001, when it simultaneously flattened and widened. not a good look.
to be honest, i've never paid too much attention to nick's bum. he's a good-looking fellow, for sure, although i've always had the crush on josh - he once showed up to my friend's place in a white linen suit because he was going to weekend party in the hamptons the following day. god help me, i'm dissolving into a puddle of secret wasp lust at the memory.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 20:34 (twenty years ago) link

this thread is a thing of beauty.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 20:34 (twenty years ago) link

Why were the illustration in the Preppie Handbook sooooooo ugly?

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 20:42 (twenty years ago) link

anyway, s: bermuda bags and monogrammed l.l. bean backpacks and lacrosse (it is too a sport, kate!) and rubber smith & hawken clogs and mason-pearson hairbrushes and knee socks and black penny loafers with nickels in the vents and rides home in back of your friend's hot older brother's jeep wrangler. and of course the ultimate classic... school skirts worn with stripey tights and doc martens.

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

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 20:43 (twenty years ago) link

I have been accumulating a scarifying amount of argyle clothing lately.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 20:46 (twenty years ago) link

it's all about tweed and argyle this season!

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 20:48 (twenty years ago) link

s: my boyfriend (who has the JUST-tailored-and-clean-cut-enough dirty-dronerock-aristocrat thing down BEAUTIFULLY)

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

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 20:48 (twenty years ago) link

it's all about tweed and argyle this season!

i read that as weed and argyle.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 20:49 (twenty years ago) link

You would think on the isle where lies Argyle, you could find a good, non-expensive pair of the fucking socks. Wrongo.

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

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 20:51 (twenty years ago) link

excuse me, i have to stare at this for the next little while. this so makes up for hamilton's fly being open at the henry fonda show.

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 (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 22:16 (twenty years ago) link

http://pod-135.dolphin-server.co.uk/~gareth/socks.jpg

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 22:18 (twenty years ago) link

S: superiority complex.
D: pastels.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 22:18 (twenty years ago) link

s: my boyfriend (who has the JUST-tailored-and-clean-cut-enough dirty-dronerock-aristocrat thing down BEAUTIFULLY)
d: the smelly trustafarians at the prep school down the street from here

-- 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)

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 22:20 (twenty years ago) link

it means you have good taste!

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 22:21 (twenty years ago) link

sigh. what i wouldn't give for that white suit picture.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 22:21 (twenty years ago) link

jbr: from the thread: "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."
ckb: OTM OTM OTM OTM
ckb: *gets on chair and shouts 'OTM'*
jbr: hahahahahahahhahaha
jbr: you're so busted
ckb: hahaha
ckb: it's so OTM, that i actually DON'T own anything poly
ckb: and most polyester makes my skin break out
jbr: hahahaha (i'm sorry, but hahahaha)
ckb: seriously!
ckb: it is hilarious

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 11 March 2004 04:10 (twenty years ago) link

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