The Official Preppy Reboot | Society | Vanity Fair

Very amusing article from Lisa Birnbach, the Author of “True Prep” in “Vanity Fair”…

I keep calling attention to this, because I was in College at Washington and Lee University when her first book, “The Official Preppie Handbook” came out and became a sensation.  It was one of the cultural touchstones for our crowd at that time.  It’s nice to see we’ve all evolved, but still belong to the Prep cliches of our youth…and we have caught up with the rest of the world as it’s caught up with us.  Assimilation is a wonderful thing!

It’s been 30 years! It doesn’t seem possible, does it? Despite changes and crises, the maid quitting, running out of vodka, your NetJets account being yanked, and the Internet, it’s still nice to be prep.

And as we have gotten a bit older and a teensy bit wiser, the world has become much smaller. We are all interconnected, intermarried, inter-everything’d. The great-looking couple in the matching tweed blazers and wide-wale orange corduroy trousers are speaking … Italian. On Melrose Avenue! Whereas once upon a time it was unlikely Europeans would be attracted to our aesthetic, now they’ve adapted it and made it their own. (They’re the women with no hips, in case you were wondering.)

Let’s begin at the beginning of the year. Here are our resolutions. You’ll catch on.

Click the link below to see all the resolutions…

Here is another great excerpt:

Who We Are Now

Formerly Wasp. Failing that, white and heterosexual. One day we became curious or bored and wanted to branch out, and before you knew it, we were all mixed up.

Well, that’s the way we like it, even if Grandmother did disapprove and didn’t go to the wedding ceremony. (Did she ever stop talking about the “barefoot and pregnant bride”? Ever?) And now one of our nieces, MacKenzie, is a researcher at the C.D.C. in Atlanta and is engaged to marry the loveliest man … Rajeem, a pediatrician who went to Duke. And Kelly is at Smith, and you know what that means. And our son Cal is married to Rachel, and her father the cantor married them in a lovely ceremony. Katie, our daughter, is a decorative artist living in Philadelphia with Otis, who is a professor of African-American studies at Swarthmore. And then there’s Bailey, our handsome little nephew. Somehow, all he wants to do is ski, meet girls, and drink beer.

Well, there’s one out of five.

And you really  should click the link for more info on Travel and Fashion Rules…

Lind to entire article:   The Official Preppy Reboot | Society | Vanity Fair.