Give Up the Prep
Wednesday, November 3, 2010 at 08:09PM What is the big deal about The Preppy Handbook and True Prep? No, this is not hook to get you to read an article. It is an honest-to-G-d question. Why do people like them? I, for one, do not.
What is so entering about 424 pages of preppies do this and preppies do that. It is neither interesting nor informative. A list of loafer that are acceptable? The type of mistresses your father may or may not have? A picture of people wearing trench coats? Preppy lingo? (Yes according to Lisa Birnbach, the "Preppies" would "prefer not to expend energy speaking.") Acceptable charity events?
Besides not wanting all this uselessness in your head, who is a "preppy-wannabe"? The preppy lifestyle is a lifestyle. It is not one's life goal to be preppy, and if it is, you have a sad, long life ahead of you and this book won't help. The information is hardly accurate either.
Clogs? Besides being highly unfashionable, unless we are discussing Chanel's from last Spring, they are not preppy. The preppy shoe must be tasteful, detailed, at-least look hand-made and should have a little air frivolity. This is just one of many examples.
But this takes it to different level.
Stubbs & Wootton created these shoes for Lisa Birnbach's book. They are featured on the cover of True Prep. Not even people who liked the original liked true prep. But these shoes are now available for $425!!! Ms. Birnbach clearly thinks very highly of herself and her books, but I don't.
Overall, don't waste your time with these books. If you want to be preppy, go to Lacoste and buy a polo.
Reader Comments (2)
Does anyone wear this stuff anymore? As if.....
Are you kidding? We all lived by this code in the day. I still turn my collars up. It is not fashion. It's forever.