<p>I feel pretty and preppy.
I feel wealthy and preppy and white !!!</p>
<p>juuust kidding guys</p>
<p>FYI
it's a song
and i'm not white
and i don't hate preppy people
and i'm not a hippie</p>
<p>peace</p>
<p>Penn has a very strong preppy contingent. The girls wear nothing but pink and green skirts with white popped collars. The guys all wear RL (almost no one here wears LaCoste anymore) and Sperrys. They are pretty ****ing snotty.</p>
<p>so how does duke figure on the prep scale?</p>
<p>All those saying Princeton is preppy - have any of you been there lately? We've been three times in the last year and it felt anything but preppy. Not a popped collar in sight. At Stanford, however, they were everywhere.</p>
<p>Northwestern!</p>
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<p>so how does duke figure on the prep scale?</p>
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<p>IMHO, high, but not stratospheric.</p>
<p>Most of the colleges mentioned arnt truly preppy, they are the "new" preps. Many of these kids are the ones who think that buying a polo, or wearing lilly make you a prep. Thats completly wrong. Preppy is a lifestyle. Being form a wealthy New England WASP family, reading The Official Preppy Handbook by Lisa Birnbach in 8th grade lit class, having so many little blue boxes on chirstmas that you can pack lunches in them for the rest of the year, shoping at vineyard vines , having every pattern of vera bradley, and still caring that there are people less fortunite than you is true prep. </p>
<p>Ive gone to a prep school and lived in NE all my life, and can say first hand that the "new" preps, give us old/true preps a bad name. UVA kids esp. that is not us at all. Some of them are but the majority arnt. </p>
<p>Some of the most "preppy" colleges are Brywn Mwar, and U of Scranton. Scanton not so much, as its more of a party school, but there are alot of WASPs there which is nice to see.</p>
<p>This is ridiculous. What's the point of this thread anyway?</p>
<p>To find out schools where I will really stand out with my Converse shoes and studded pyramid belt.</p>
<p>"... OH THANK GOD I am not from the South."</p>
<p>thats not very fair is it? I thank God Im not from France...at least we dont surrender to the Nazis</p>
<p>That's right barbers260. It is a lifestyle and WASPs are a dying breed.
George Stephanopoulos's wife wrote the WASP cookbook (it's rather interesting). True WASPs are also very reserved in their actions such as never having to convey/convince to people that they HAVE money. If someone is always trying to "show-off" what they have they are not a true prep.
People need to go research clothes and realize that just buying RL does not make you a prep. Try throwing in a Barbour jacket or some Brooks' Brothers/Golden Fleece clothing line.
True preps may dress "scruffy" at times, but ALWAYS wear an expensive tank-watch (Cartier, etc)</p>
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<p>"True WASPs are also very reserved in their actions such as never having to convey/convince to people that they HAVE money. If someone is always trying to "show-off" what they have they are not a true prep."</p>
<p>Are you trying to tell me that spending over $100 on a polo is not trying to convince people they have money? "Oh yea, this $200 polo am wearing, I bought it because it was comfortable." Come on, anyone who's willing to spend hundreds on one outfit, it trying to flaunt their wealth.</p>
<p>Its not like that at all kinglin. Its more of how you grew up. Almost every picture we have of me as a little kids, I have on a polo(coller popped its a big thing on here, which i think is funny), some type of sweater and either natucket reds, or LL Bean style shorts at least for the summer. Wearing a polo to me is like wearing a t, and wearing a t is just to casual. The reasen we spend a little more on a polo is that is what we have always worn. It also b/c of the way it fits and to me RL is more comfortable then A&F(which I dont ever wear), but if i started wearnf A&F Im sure they would be comfrotable too.</p>
<p>Living in the South, I've realized that 'southern hospitality' is nothing more than southern 'what-can-you-do-for-me.' Many (but not all) southerners are just a bunch of phonies and f.akes. Yeah, they'll hold the door for you..while they're thinking how much they don't like you. Hypocrisy is the code of road down here. You're not filthy rich? Just throw on these 'preppy' Abercrombie clothes that were fashionable in the late 90s and be insecure about yourself. But hey, you LOOK rich right?</p>
<p>The South is all about appearances. This idea is something that Flannery O'Connor develops upon in her short stories that were written 50s and still holds true today, unfortunately. The reason the south has 'preppy' colleges is because southerners want to APPEAR to be well off when really they aren't. Everyone is not rich. Accept it and be real with yourself. Be genuine, please. </p>
<p>I realize that everyone is a hypocrite at some time or another but in the south it's more widely accepted, I guess. I just can't wait to get out of here...</p>
<p>mujehar...I'm with you. I'm not sure where you are from, but I have lived in Texas (although not the true south) my entire life. I like that people can be "warm" at times, but I've just come to a part of my life to where this whole red-neck thing (aside from southern preppies) is getting quite old. The people that are the most pretentious are usually the "new money" folks who are first-generation wealth. People who come from a long line of wealth are not usaully as snobby.</p>
<p>In terms of design and style, polo shirts are as BORING as you can possibly get!</p>
<p>lol! this thread is the most hilarious one ever! but i was surprised to see that not alot of California schools were mentioned!</p>
<p>Stanford, LMU, & USC are full of collar popers!</p>
<p>i live in LA now ( used to live in NC) and i think that there are soo many more collar poppers out west. As a matter of fact, i go to a kinda well-to-do private school in Hollywood ( our alums include Tyra Banks & Mary Tyler Moore) and popping your collar is practically a part of the uniform!!! since the 80's i think , the seniors usually have poped their collars in their portraits ( including Tyra!)</p>
<p>if you want this "nouveau preppiness"... go to SMU. its ridiculous. all tan blondes with their rich preppy republican boyfriends that drive BMWs or massive SUVs.</p>
<p>I agree with shoegal2----> definitely SMU.
You can check out their preppiness by reading the Phantom Professor Blogs</p>
<p>baylor has a huge pop. of bmw driving abercrombie wearing preps. what about the rich southern conservative schools?</p>