Most preppy DC
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Anonymous
This is just rich kid stuff and not prep. Really no difference between this and rappers kids on mtv with the beach house, cars and limos. |
Anonymous
Dying laughing at this post. "Truly preppy people look down on Junior Leaguers"? Yes, volunteering and attending professional trainings is SO nouveau, darling. |
Anonymous
Np - but Junior League is just that - not real volunteer work or a real board. To be a true DC elite you need to be on the Trustee’s Council or the Smithsonian Board of Regents. |
Anonymous
Yeah, those aren't preppy DC housewives. Those are people with doctorates in art history and academics and business executives. Think more Glover Park Group and less Glover Park playgroups. |
Anonymous
I'm a fundraiser and being on a board isn't "real" volunteer work either. It's not Meals on Wheels, it's a figurehead role where you mostly just get your friends to donate and give things your stamp of approval. They aren't doing anything hard or laborious. |
Anonymous
The worst wedding reception I attended was at The Cosmos Club. Granted, this was 20 years ago, but we left after the inedible entree was served to eat at a restaurant, then came back for the cake. Cosmos is true prep - they let you be as cheap as you want to be. Perfect place for a cheap, preppy wedding. |
Anonymous
I have a preschooler and am sad I missed all these playgroups. What's the in-thing for the pre-K set? FWIW I wish I were a SAHM. |
Anonymous
I don't know. But I do know Little Graces doesn't exist anymore. So it's weird people keep touting that as the current "life trajectory." |
Anonymous
I know, I'm lmao. It's a bunch of Washingtonians trying to act like DC is NYC. So bizarre. Also I love the posts about "True preps are born at Columbia Women's Hospital." That...doesn't exist anymore! |
Anonymous
^^ Maybe pp needs to visit the society of the Cincinnati building and check out the mural by the stairs. You know, the one where the 19th century girl from the Weld family holds a bloom of cotton in her hand to show that all the industry and prosperity in the city depicted in the mural depended on, ahem, cotton. Preppies bled their own country dry, on the backs of African Americans. And invested the money to build generational wealth. You can go back to your rendition of the 1980 preppy handbook. But stop shaming people who did the same thing your ancestors did. (maybe also your grandparents who generally didn’t exactly welcome people different from them at their clubs and for a long time schools too) |
I am an African Princess, I had personal maids to dress me and wipe my ass, breakfast in once city, lunch in a different continent, private plane, oh and schools are named after my family , top that! 
Anonymous
I've been on a board and I've been in Junior League and Junior League is definitely more "real" volunteer work, whatever that means. |
Anonymous
THIS! |
Anonymous
Considering "true preps" haven't existed since the early 90s it rings pretty true. "Preppy" was a specific fad that began in the 80s. There have been snooty upper class young people since the beginning of time, but "preppy" was a particular subculture that no longer exists. VT bros wearing Southern Tide and downing white claws in Clarendon aren't "preppy," they've got similarities but they're their own subculture. |
Anonymous
I agree with you on that point and want to be clear I did not say that. There are actual preppy people under the age of 30 though. Regardless this thread is just insane. Beach houses in Delaware and limos to prom aren't "preppy," they're tacky. |
Anonymous
Then got drinks at Chinese Disco and/or Mason Inn |