This one is mainly for my College friends. The Washington and Lee, Sweet Briar, RMWC, Mary Baldwin, UVA and other Virginia Colleges gang.
The rest of you, please bear with us…
If it’s any help…my partner says he would probably have hated me in College, but we’ve managed to reach a stylistic middle ground and last almost 14 years…
Lisa Birnbach was one of the authors of “The Official Preppy Handbook” back in the late 1970’s- early 1980’s. I won’t say it was our handbook because that implies we didn’t know it all before hand. It just happened to reflect our lives at the time. Her new book, “True Prep”, comes out on September 7th. It’s about Preps at Middle Age. I’ve already pre-ordered my copy from Amazon.com.
I’m already scared….How many cliches can I be at one time? I’m already seen as a middle aged Guppy and now I realize I’m still a middle aged Preppie. From what I have read of this book so far, I’m totally still a prep. Just because I have at least a half dozen pair of Cole Haan Loafers and my weekend wardrobe is totally J Crew. Everything else is Brooks Brothers or Ralph Lauren. It hurts to face the truth….
You can take the boy out of W&L, but you can’t take the W&L out of the boy…
Here is the video that defines our generation’s new place in Society:
Lost in the 21st Century 
Scott – You wrote the book on this too – was it a collaborative effort ?!?
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You were my tutor!
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I owned very little pink. I did have a straw boater and a seersucker suit. Nowadays, I just don’t give a crap. Plus I have more Lycra than cotton.
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Some prep (classic) stuff will always be preferable — button-down shirts, khakis, bluchers… but… we went overboard with the prep stuff. And some of it — lime green pants and pink shirts? Oy.
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