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<p>Well, I don’t think POIH is using an “unconventional” definition. I’m looking at my office dictionary, which defines “preppy or preppie” as:</p>
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<p>Granted, this is a 1991 edition, so usage might have evolved since then. But I think it’s pretty clear that the adjective “preppy”, as in “preppy clothes,” is derivative of the first noun meaning, one who attends or graduated from a preparatory school. The second noun meaning is also derivative; it refers to someone who dresses or acts like a preppy, i.e., like a student at or a graduate of a traditional prep school. The etymology indicates this term has been in use in this way in America since shortly before the turn of the 20th century. So it’s anything but “unconventional.” This is the most traditional use of the term “preppy.”</p>
<p>I think perhaps what’s happened, though, it that there’s been a divergence. Since prep school students/graduates no longer uniformly dress in the styles traditionally associated with prep schools, and since those traditional “preppy” styles have been widely adopted by people are are not “preppies” in the original sense of the word, a lot of people no longer make a connection between prep schools, “preppies” (the students & graduates of those schools), and a “preppy” style of clothing, attitude, or behavior.</p>
<p>Those links were priceless, Haystack. Does anyone, besides members of some marching bands, wear white or tan bucks anymore?</p>
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<p>wis75 - i am guilty of the same thing. Something in the back of my mind says if the doctor is presenting his clients with a well put together package and has has obviously paid attention to detail then she/he will also take care and focus on details when it comes to my health concerns.</p>
<p>^I tend to agree. As an architect, I try to look practical, but just trendy enough that I look like I know what’s in style. In a doctor more conservative is probably better. You want your patients to feel safe.</p>
<p>Don’t all preppy’s wear penny loafers? Oh…yes…that was in the 60’s.</p>
<p>Rwb, rich, white and beautiful. I actually heard someone say this once, and she was white and good looking. Can’t say whether she was well off or not though. Preppy for me has a negative connotation and includes those who would only associate exclusively with those who are also preppy, i.e., definitely not into diversification.</p>
<p>If people aren’t obsessed with having moose, sheep, horses, and other animals on their shirt, it might not be as expensive as people imagine it to be.</p>
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<p>LOL!! I wore them in the 70s and 80s as well!!! ;)</p>
<p>Penny loafers were all over the campuses that I visited for the occasions that required something more elevated that boat shoes/topsiders/sperrys. In fact at some of the schools I felt like I WAS back in the 80s, except the collars were not popped and I didn’t smell Drakkar Noir.</p>
<p>I still wear penny loafers, wingtips, bucks. It is very difficult to find a good inexpensive loafer these days. Bass Weejuns,the original loafer, are a shell of their former self. Made overseas of crapy plastic like leather…blah.</p>
<p>Haystack and others in need of loafers, on page 6 of this ((Wabash) college newspaper, feel free to take the advice of this particular preppy young writer.
<a href=“http://bachelor.wabash.edu/issues/2011s/Issue_14.pdf[/url]”>http://bachelor.wabash.edu/issues/2011s/Issue_14.pdf</a></p>
<p>Wabash---- even the name sounds preppy. Maybe b/c it reminds me of Wallabees.</p>
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<p>It is one of the last of the all-male schools, so it does have that prep school feel. They often dress like cavemen though.</p>
<p>Does the OP of that loafer article drape a tennis sweater over his shoulders and tie it loosely with the sleeves?</p>
<p>I have only read his blog and articles (DS wants to attend the school), but I dont think that would be far off. It actually isn’t a school full of preppy kids, but he does know his trad fashion.</p>
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<p>That’s what I always did!!! Geez…grew up in New Orleans! That was the only way to wear a sweater without sweating!</p>
<p>There seems to be a few different strains of preppiness. The main strain is waspy folks who actually went to waspy prep schools in the Northeast (Dream school: harvard; ok with Williams; settle for Trinity). And then offshoots of that include:
– scruffy wear-khaki-shorts-year-round fratty prep (dream school: Dartmouth; ok with Colgate; settle for Hartwick/Babson)
–well-groomed and pressed-khaki-wearing Southern prep (dream school: Vandy/UVa; ok with Washington & Lee; settle for Ole Miss)
–shaggy-haired, athletic, plaid-wool-skirt/blue-blazer wearing elite Catholic school prep (dream school: Georgetown; ok with BC; settle for Holy Cross )</p>
<p>The Aldens are a great classic loafer. I believe that Alden and Allen Edmonds in Port Washington WI are the last full line shoe manufacturers in the US. Sad.</p>
<p>Speaking of southern prep, I’m typing this as I am listening to Carolina beach music…Myrtle Beach Days.</p>