<p>.. why has nobody considered that preppy is a style that only involves clothes!! it is not a personality trait (for the most part) or an accurate description of anyones person. </p>
<p>i live in la and im not really down with the whole preppy look, but who gives?! why hate on the south/north in here about clothes...</p>
<p>georgetown is pretty preppy</p>
<p>i will take uva's "wine and cheese" tailgates and raise you trinity's raw oyster bar...</p>
<p>nescac schools are by far the preppiest in the original sense of the word. southern schools tend to replicate the fashion side of preppy but don't really live it in the sense of a new england prep, the only real kind of prep.</p>
<p>Amherst College, Syracuse University and Brown are the preppiest on my list by far that I've seen.</p>
<p>Youâre forgeting Ole Miss. They dress in sport coats and dresses to every football game and in the grove youâll probably see chandeliers hanging from one of the tents. A lot of rich people go there and if I had to pick a southern college it would be Ole Miss.</p>
<p>Any school in the SEC, as well as UVA and UNC-Chapel Hill.</p>
<p>Iâd like to address regions of the country in this thread.</p>
<p>People hating on southern hospitality. When you think weâre only pretending to be nice, youâre showing yourself to be super neurotic. Odds are we arenât thinking about you at all when we hold the door or let you into traffic. Weâre just conditioned to behave nicely to other people subconsciously. The other possibility is you present yourself as extremely unlikable. Perhaps you look like an idiot by wearing a suit jacket that has a skull on the back, a t-shirt, shorts, and sandals. There is nothing we can do about that, but weâll still hold the door.</p>
<p>Midwest. Your parents donât love you. That is why they show you no affection. Your parents were born because your grandparents needed farm labor. You were born, and your parents canât pinpoint why. You flee to the coasts if you have any life left in you by the time you grow up. Your region is quickly becoming a ghost town because it offers nothing other than grey skies and depressing winters.</p>
<p>West Coast. Youâre laid back most of the time but periodically the angry northeasterner inside you creeps out. You arenât as smart as you think. You are unable to follow ideas all the way through to consequences. You basically live a hedonist lifestyle but refuse to accept it. You end up filling the hole left by not having religion with movements such as nutrition, carbon footprints, yoga, politics, modern art, and the vagueness that is âspiritualityâ.</p>
<p>Northeastern. Youâre rude, but sometimes funny to make up for it. Many of you think youâre funny but arenât, as you never advance past dirty jokes that worked in high school. You also hold more prejudices than the South. Your greatest strength is youâve been around forever like the South, and thus are authentic, while other regions are inhabitied entirely by nomads.</p>
<p>americans do not know how to dress preppyâŠim american but i live in germany and out here is the real preppy kids. they actually know how to dress and look good and their clothes arenât too big for them. the wealthy out here is the real deal, in my opinion.</p>
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<p>Iâve also lived in Germany and I disagree with your assumption. Go to pretty much any major SEC school and I guarantee youâll see the definition of preppy walking around near the Greek houses there.</p>
<p>well i go to the frankfurt international school and there are many wealthy kids there, kids who actually know how to dress well. and no ive seen the americans try to dress preppyâŠits not as good i dont think. however weâre all entitled to our own opinions!</p>
<p>callmeb0ssâŠyou probably donât understand the true meaning of the word preppy. preppy is a pretty american-bred style/lifestyle and while your german classmates may dress fashionably, i highly doubt that they are preppy in the true sense of the word. money does not a prep make.</p>
<p>alright im juuussttt about done with his siteâŠim just always wrong. you guys know your stuffâŠso why bother! still think the germans do it better!</p>
<p>the guyâs original question was ââwhich schoolâs are the preppiest. and by preppriest i mean wealthyâŠââ for this guy wealth did have something to do with it.</p>
<p>âcallmeb0ssâŠyou probably donât understand the true meaning of the word preppyâ</p>
<p>haha dont be so condescending either. i know what preppy is, just because i dont know the origin doesnt mean i dont know what it is. meanings of things in this time have most certaintly changed from their original, intended meaningsâŠsurrounded by âpreppyâ everyday am i!</p>
<p>Perhaps there are different meanings of the word preppy? :OO</p>
<p>You must have never been to the south or else you would know how nice it is down here. The weather doesnât suck, people say hi even when you donât know them, and itâs not full of people like you who look down on the south for something that happened 150 years ago.</p>
<p>i personally think there is a huge difference between southern preppy and northern (NYC-type) preppy. it seems like this is where the arguments are stemming from. people from the north think preppy is like abercrombie, prada, gucci, all that designer stuff. but TRUE preppy (in my opinion) is polo, lacoste, brooks brothers, j.crew, longchamp bags, stuff like that. guys who wear khakis and oxfords every day and girls and guys who wear their sunglasses around their neck with croakiesâŠthatâs true preppy.</p>
<p>when it comes to this type of preppy, no one can even come CLOSE to beating schools like bama, oleâ miss, south carolina, U.Va., h-sc, washington & lee, etc. all it takes is one U.Va. football game and witnessing first-hand âguys in ties, girls in pearlsâ, where the guys wear jackets and ties and the girls wear dresses, to understand what iâm talking about.</p>
<p>ps. iâm from virginia but i lived in massachusetts for 4 years. from my familyâs experience, we came up with the saying, âTHE ONLY THING COLDER THAN THE WEATHER IS THE PEOPLEâ. aayyyy lezzzz gooo south :)</p>
<p>Yes, go to a school in the South and see how many grads end up getting their MRS. degree or working for their familyâs business in construction, farming or franchise. None go to the Vineyard or Nantucket but their backward arse version. Oh yeah, U of G is such a preppier school than Princeton that every prep would rather go there than Princeton if they can go in⊠LMAO</p>
<p>Southerners go to alligator swamps to summer while Northerners go the Marthaâs Vineyard or Nantucket. FYI: Preppy BEGAN in the Northeast and NOT the South with families as old as the Kennedyâs and Carnegies (not Hatfield and McCoys). You folks from the South are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO dellusional!</p>
<p>I guess Iâm old but longchamp bags are preppy? What happened to LL Bean bags with initials?</p>
<p>Hands down, the Preppiest college in the U.S. is ⊠Hampden-Sydney College in Farmville, VA. Also, for chicks good Preppy choices are Hollins and Sweet Briar. Hampden-Sydney blows Washington & Lee out of the water when comparing preppy levels.
Been there, done that.</p>