What is that WASP aesthetic?

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of this is spot on. I went to a ne boarding school In the mid 90s ( not wasp);

Old j crew roll necks
Barbour jackets and barn jackets
Duck boots and llbean backpacks
Dull colors
No to low makeup
Air dried hair, mostly straight
Sun kissed look but never fake tanned
Women A bit horsey. Looks like you could be on the crew team
Men a little bit femme I the cut of the clothes
White ball caps and unkept hair in the boys
Taste in music like phish or old crew medicine show

This. All of this. I wouldn’t say actual WASPs are any kind of fashion icons. They do have dresses for parties but they’re not anything special. The women I know are trim but with athletic builds. They look like they could still play lacrosse or swim or jump on a horse.

No, I feel like this was also everyone at the catholic school I attended in the 90s.

Catholics definitely ape the WASP look.

Exactly who are they aping? Nobody has mentioned a real WASP yet in here, its been all Catholic and Jewish women. If this is such an iconic obvious look, why has it been so hard to identify one actual WASP who embodies it? One thing I know, skimpy bikinis, are not part of the "look."

Yes they have. See above on Brits. Think about where the "Anglo-Saxon" in WASP came from.

And Roosevelt and Bush, whom you may not consider fashion icons.

The OPs question was what do they dress and look like. If the examples are Roosevelt and Bush then that's not exactly current or relevant. So does modern WASP not exist in the US? Who in the US best exemplifies this "look" who isn't dead or 90?

They’re not famous! And if they are famous they don’t dress like the rest of the WASPs because that would be weird! This isn’t hard to understand. If you grow up alongside them, you know the look to a T. And it’s not fashion icon status. It’s often rumpled, two decades old, whatever. The best example of a glamorous version is Grace Kelly.

Yet again, another Catholic.

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of this is spot on. I went to a ne boarding school In the mid 90s ( not wasp);

Old j crew roll necks
Barbour jackets and barn jackets
Duck boots and llbean backpacks
Dull colors
No to low makeup
Air dried hair, mostly straight
Sun kissed look but never fake tanned
Women A bit horsey. Looks like you could be on the crew team
Men a little bit femme I the cut of the clothes
White ball caps and unkept hair in the boys
Taste in music like phish or old crew medicine show

This. All of this. I wouldn’t say actual WASPs are any kind of fashion icons. They do have dresses for parties but they’re not anything special. The women I know are trim but with athletic builds. They look like they could still play lacrosse or swim or jump on a horse.

No, I feel like this was also everyone at the catholic school I attended in the 90s.

Catholics definitely ape the WASP look.

Exactly who are they aping? Nobody has mentioned a real WASP yet in here, its been all Catholic and Jewish women. If this is such an iconic obvious look, why has it been so hard to identify one actual WASP who embodies it? One thing I know, skimpy bikinis, are not part of the "look."

Yes they have. See above on Brits. Think about where the "Anglo-Saxon" in WASP came from.

And Roosevelt and Bush, whom you may not consider fashion icons.

The OPs question was what do they dress and look like. If the examples are Roosevelt and Bush then that's not exactly current or relevant. So does modern WASP not exist in the US? Who in the US best exemplifies this "look" who isn't dead or 90?

They’re not famous! And if they are famous they don’t dress like the rest of the WASPs because that would be weird! This isn’t hard to understand. If you grow up alongside them, you know the look to a T. And it’s not fashion icon status. It’s often rumpled, two decades old, whatever. The best example of a glamorous version is Grace Kelly.

Yet again, another Catholic.

Maybe you should start a new thread where you can punctuate every post with "that person isn't Protestant"

You don't have to BE PROTESTANT to look like a WASP. That's why it's a look and not a birthright.

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of this is spot on. I went to a ne boarding school In the mid 90s ( not wasp);

Old j crew roll necks
Barbour jackets and barn jackets
Duck boots and llbean backpacks
Dull colors
No to low makeup
Air dried hair, mostly straight
Sun kissed look but never fake tanned
Women A bit horsey. Looks like you could be on the crew team
Men a little bit femme I the cut of the clothes
White ball caps and unkept hair in the boys
Taste in music like phish or old crew medicine show

This. All of this. I wouldn’t say actual WASPs are any kind of fashion icons. They do have dresses for parties but they’re not anything special. The women I know are trim but with athletic builds. They look like they could still play lacrosse or swim or jump on a horse.

No, I feel like this was also everyone at the catholic school I attended in the 90s.

Catholics definitely ape the WASP look.

Exactly who are they aping? Nobody has mentioned a real WASP yet in here, its been all Catholic and Jewish women. If this is such an iconic obvious look, why has it been so hard to identify one actual WASP who embodies it? One thing I know, skimpy bikinis, are not part of the "look."

Yes they have. See above on Brits. Think about where the "Anglo-Saxon" in WASP came from.

And Roosevelt and Bush, whom you may not consider fashion icons.

The OPs question was what do they dress and look like. If the examples are Roosevelt and Bush then that's not exactly current or relevant. So does modern WASP not exist in the US? Who in the US best exemplifies this "look" who isn't dead or 90?

They’re not famous! And if they are famous they don’t dress like the rest of the WASPs because that would be weird! This isn’t hard to understand. If you grow up alongside them, you know the look to a T. And it’s not fashion icon status. It’s often rumpled, two decades old, whatever. The best example of a glamorous version is Grace Kelly.

Yet again, another Catholic.

Maybe you should start a new thread where you can punctuate every post with "that person isn't Protestant"

You don't have to BE PROTESTANT to look like a WASP. That's why it's a look and not a birthright.

So I guess what's being described is just old white women. They don't have the be Anglo Saxon or Protestant.

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It’s kind of if you don’t get it you don’t get it.

Mercedes wagon keep for ten years not a new white Range Rover if that helps

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Anonymous wrote:It’s kind of if you don’t get it you don’t get it.

Mercedes wagon keep for ten years not a new white Range Rover if that helps

Volvo wagon more like it.

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Jane Fonda in Frankie and Grace

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Anonymous wrote:Jane Fonda in Frankie and Grace

+1000

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Anonymous wrote:Muffy Aldrich instagram

Can we just never bring up Muffy again? She dresses like a man. I guess "like" is a bad work because she quite literally wears mostly men's clothes. She is not a fashionable WASP icon like Carolyn Bassett, Katerine Hepburn, Jackie O

Who is this “Carolyn Bassett” that has been mentioned several times? Is she a lovely WASPY hound dog? Or could you be referring to Carolyn Bessette Kennedy? If so, please learn to spell her name. Also, as pointed out earlier, she’s Catholic. Whomp whomp. All your WASPs are belong to Jews and Catholics.

Only true WASPs spell other true WASPs’ names correctly.

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Anonymous wrote:Muffy Aldrich instagram

Can we just never bring up Muffy again? She dresses like a man. I guess "like" is a bad work because she quite literally wears mostly men's clothes. She is not a fashionable WASP icon like Carolyn Bassett, Katerine Hepburn, Jackie O

Who is this “Carolyn Bassett” that has been mentioned several times? Is she a lovely WASPY hound dog? Or could you be referring to Carolyn Bessette Kennedy? If so, please learn to spell her name. Also, as pointed out earlier, she’s Catholic. Whomp whomp. All your WASPs are belong to Jews and Catholics.

Only true WASPs spell other true WASPs’ names correctly.

Particularly when they are actually Catholic.

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Doesn’t Kate Middleton perfectly represent the WASP look? Except maybe a bit too shiny and new.

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District of Chic on Instagram

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of this is spot on. I went to a ne boarding school In the mid 90s ( not wasp);

Old j crew roll necks
Barbour jackets and barn jackets
Duck boots and llbean backpacks
Dull colors
No to low makeup
Air dried hair, mostly straight
Sun kissed look but never fake tanned
Women A bit horsey. Looks like you could be on the crew team
Men a little bit femme I the cut of the clothes
White ball caps and unkept hair in the boys
Taste in music like phish or old crew medicine show

This. All of this. I wouldn’t say actual WASPs are any kind of fashion icons. They do have dresses for parties but they’re not anything special. The women I know are trim but with athletic builds. They look like they could still play lacrosse or swim or jump on a horse.

No, I feel like this was also everyone at the catholic school I attended in the 90s.

Catholics definitely ape the WASP look.

Exactly who are they aping? Nobody has mentioned a real WASP yet in here, its been all Catholic and Jewish women. If this is such an iconic obvious look, why has it been so hard to identify one actual WASP who embodies it? One thing I know, skimpy bikinis, are not part of the "look."

Yes they have. See above on Brits. Think about where the "Anglo-Saxon" in WASP came from.

And Roosevelt and Bush, whom you may not consider fashion icons.

The OPs question was what do they dress and look like. If the examples are Roosevelt and Bush then that's not exactly current or relevant. So does modern WASP not exist in the US? Who in the US best exemplifies this "look" who isn't dead or 90?

They’re not famous! And if they are famous they don’t dress like the rest of the WASPs because that would be weird! This isn’t hard to understand. If you grow up alongside them, you know the look to a T. And it’s not fashion icon status. It’s often rumpled, two decades old, whatever. The best example of a glamorous version is Grace Kelly.

Yet again, another Catholic.

The horror

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Anonymous wrote:Doesn’t Kate Middleton perfectly represent the WASP look? Except maybe a bit too shiny and new.

No. Too much makeup and too put together.

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Anonymous wrote:Doesn’t Kate Middleton perfectly represent the WASP look? Except maybe a bit too shiny and new.

No. Too much makeup and too put together.

Yes, bc in the public eye and expected to look coiffed. The Queen, too. She wears bright colors now but rocked tweed and riding clothes when younger.

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The question was not “who is a famous WASP.” The question was what is the aesthetic. People are answering that and one poster, who really wants everyone to know that Catholics also dress simply and elegantly, keeps noting that many of the famous examples are catholic or other.

Catholics ape WASPs. WASPs in the US, to a certain extent, ape the British landed gentry.

I think the reason people want to look like WASPs is that we recognize that despite their frequent frumpiness or shabbiness that they have money and confidence. In some ways that’s easier than trying to “look rich” with lots of expensive designer clothes.