Post a store or brand, and we’ll guess who shops there!

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Anonymous wrote:Brooks Brothers

Larla thought about seeking an Executive Husband on itsjustlunch.com, a dating website she discovered while flying business class on a Delta flight to Hartsfield International. Ultimately though, she decided to forego the spouse and work on her career.

Larla can trace her ancestry well back into the fifteenth century owing to the indefatigable work decades ago of a second cousin twice removed who became a stalwart of the DAR. Despite her ancestral WASP bona fides, Larla never identified with that tribe owing to her cosmopolitan background living variously in Paris and third world outposts growing up and the strong strain of Irish Catholicism in her family culture.

When she landed from overseas at her Ivy, she was first introduced to the world of Top Siders, khakis, and LL Bean Norwegian sweaters but persisted in wearing her mother's hand me downs of fine knit skirts and dresses bought in Portugal, boiled wool jackets from Austria, Scottish cashmere, and French scarves because the whole preppy thing seemed so alien and just not her.

Post MBA, she eschewed business suits whenever possible in favor of dresses, usually silk, paired with cardigans that could pass as jackets and had to go out of her way to find these items that were work appropriate. Scarves remained a staple accessory, together with leather belts and Ferragamos she would wear for years by keeping them in good repair.

One day she perused the Brooks Brothers site and discovered its collaboration with Zac Posen, a master at injecting prep sensibility with a cosmopolitan flair. This she could identify with! She is now hooked and single handedly trying to keep BB alive through the pandemic.

Wasps are not irish catholic. Literally a contradiction in terms

You are wrong. WASP marries Irish Catholic and converts. Children have WASP heritage that persists to further generations but can have Irish Catholic family culture.

Once you marry a Catholic you are no longer a WASP, or your children are not. That's the point of the name.

You do not need to be a WASP to have WASP heritage. Very odd to think that by the mere fact of marrying a Catholic, a WASP automatically cancels out the WASPiness of all their forebears.

You can have WASP heritage, but if you are catholic or have catholic blood, you will never be a WASP. I didnt make the rules, that's just how it is.

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Target. Because Old Navy is worse in quality and price.


You are a 55+ mother of elementary schoolers in Falls Church City. Your children go to public school (which you fight tooth and nail to rename from TJ and GMHS) and you STRONGLY believe in public education and will tell anyone who listens. You joined the Peace Corps when young, and now work as a nonprofit lawyer. You're not the most fashionable and love your Vibram toe shoes that you wear to walk around the bike trails. You don't like it when bicyclists pass by too quickly on there. You LOVE Mom's Organic and think Jeff Bezos is the devil for hoarding all that money. You voted for Bernie and drive a Prius.

PP, you nailed it.

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Anonymous wrote:Brooks Brothers

Larla thought about seeking an Executive Husband on itsjustlunch.com, a dating website she discovered while flying business class on a Delta flight to Hartsfield International. Ultimately though, she decided to forego the spouse and work on her career.

Larla can trace her ancestry well back into the fifteenth century owing to the indefatigable work decades ago of a second cousin twice removed who became a stalwart of the DAR. Despite her ancestral WASP bona fides, Larla never identified with that tribe owing to her cosmopolitan background living variously in Paris and third world outposts growing up and the strong strain of Irish Catholicism in her family culture.

When she landed from overseas at her Ivy, she was first introduced to the world of Top Siders, khakis, and LL Bean Norwegian sweaters but persisted in wearing her mother's hand me downs of fine knit skirts and dresses bought in Portugal, boiled wool jackets from Austria, Scottish cashmere, and French scarves because the whole preppy thing seemed so alien and just not her.

Post MBA, she eschewed business suits whenever possible in favor of dresses, usually silk, paired with cardigans that could pass as jackets and had to go out of her way to find these items that were work appropriate. Scarves remained a staple accessory, together with leather belts and Ferragamos she would wear for years by keeping them in good repair.

One day she perused the Brooks Brothers site and discovered its collaboration with Zac Posen, a master at injecting prep sensibility with a cosmopolitan flair. This she could identify with! She is now hooked and single handedly trying to keep BB alive through the pandemic.

Wasps are not irish catholic. Literally a contradiction in terms

You are wrong. WASP marries Irish Catholic and converts. Children have WASP heritage that persists to further generations but can have Irish Catholic family culture.

Once you marry a Catholic you are no longer a WASP, or your children are not. That's the point of the name.

You do not need to be a WASP to have WASP heritage. Very odd to think that by the mere fact of marrying a Catholic, a WASP automatically cancels out the WASPiness of all their forebears.

You can have WASP heritage, but if you are catholic or have catholic blood, you will never be a WASP. I didnt make the rules, that's just how it is.

So I looked back at the post. It said Larla had ancestral WASP bona fides, i.e., heritage, and did not say she was WASP. So unclear why you got so triggered. And implying one drop of Catholic blood makes one non-WASP, well all too reminiscent of something...

BTW, pretty much every WASP has Catholic ancestry as all of Europe was Catholic before the Reformation.

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Larla thought about seeking an Executive Husband on itsjustlunch.com, a dating website she discovered while flying business class on a Delta flight to Hartsfield International. Ultimately though, she decided to forego the spouse and work on her career.

Larla can trace her ancestry well back into the fifteenth century owing to the indefatigable work decades ago of a second cousin twice removed who became a stalwart of the DAR. Despite her ancestral WASP bona fides, Larla never identified with that tribe owing to her cosmopolitan background living variously in Paris and third world outposts growing up and the strong strain of Irish Catholicism in her family culture.

When she landed from overseas at her Ivy, she was first introduced to the world of Top Siders, khakis, and LL Bean Norwegian sweaters but persisted in wearing her mother's hand me downs of fine knit skirts and dresses bought in Portugal, boiled wool jackets from Austria, Scottish cashmere, and French scarves because the whole preppy thing seemed so alien and just not her.

Post MBA, she eschewed business suits whenever possible in favor of dresses, usually silk, paired with cardigans that could pass as jackets and had to go out of her way to find these items that were work appropriate. Scarves remained a staple accessory, together with leather belts and Ferragamos she would wear for years by keeping them in good repair.

One day she perused the Brooks Brothers site and discovered its collaboration with Zac Posen, a master at injecting prep sensibility with a cosmopolitan flair. This she could identify with! She is now hooked and single handedly trying to keep BB alive through the pandemic.

Wasps are not irish catholic. Literally a contradiction in terms

You are wrong. WASP marries Irish Catholic and converts. Children have WASP heritage that persists to further generations but can have Irish Catholic family culture.

Once you marry a Catholic you are no longer a WASP, or your children are not. That's the point of the name.

You do not need to be a WASP to have WASP heritage. Very odd to think that by the mere fact of marrying a Catholic, a WASP automatically cancels out the WASPiness of all their forebears.

You can have WASP heritage, but if you are catholic or have catholic blood, you will never be a WASP. I didnt make the rules, that's just how it is.

So I looked back at the post. It said Larla had ancestral WASP bona fides, i.e., heritage, and did not say she was WASP. So unclear why you got so triggered. And implying one drop of Catholic blood makes one non-WASP, well all too reminiscent of something...

BTW, pretty much every WASP has Catholic ancestry as all of Europe was Catholic before the Reformation.

Yeah, the clue is in the name. "White, Anglo-Saxon PROTESTANT". You need all those factors to be a wasp, in addition to other cultural factors. But those 4 are non negotiable. Not triggered, just pointing out the truth.

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Can we please drop the WASP Catholic debate? Hate to see a good thread get derailed.

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Anonymous wrote:Can we please drop the WASP Catholic debate? Hate to see a good thread get derailed.

Seriously. Who TF cares?

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Target. Because Old Navy is worse in quality and price.

You are a 55+ mother of elementary schoolers in Falls Church City. Your children go to public school (which you fight tooth and nail to rename from TJ and GMHS) and you STRONGLY believe in public education and will tell anyone who listens. You joined the Peace Corps when young, and now work as a nonprofit lawyer. You're not the most fashionable and love your Vibram toe shoes that you wear to walk around the bike trails. You don't like it when bicyclists pass by too quickly on there. You LOVE Mom's Organic and think Jeff Bezos is the devil for hoarding all that money. You voted for Bernie and drive a Prius.

PP, you nailed it.

Original PP here, and unfortunately the only part of this that’s right is that I’m a mother. But amusing nonetheless

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Anonymous wrote:J. Crew = you have a few groups here. The OG, die-hard Michelle Obama stans (probably were young enough at the time that she “introduced” them to the brand). Older women who’ve been J. Crew shoppers forever and say they buy it for “quality” but are quietly unhappy with the quality as of late but too stubborn to change. People who asked for “preppy” clothing recommendations and beard this answer a lot. And finally, the straight men of Washington DC, going there for their annual “update of the blue gingham shirt” pilgrimage.

White House Black Market

People! Stop posting random thoughts and participate in the game! Also, you have to answer one before you post a new store.

WHBM--the only person I know who shops there is a French microbiologist. She is very feminine and girly. Slightly dowdy.

I wear a lot of WHBM and am a scientist (American though)!

My prompt: Anthropologie

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My prompt: Anthropologie

Larla grew up in LA—the daughter of an upper B list talent agent and a biglaw white-collar crime attorney—but went East for college so she could take romantic walks amid fall leaves and fresh snow (though she was never able to pull herself away from her rose gold MacBook long enough to actually do this). She attended an artsy LAC where students call professors by their first names, and majored in performance art and Victorian literature. Larla moved to New York after college to take a job as a modern art gallerina for $25,000 a year. She lives in a SoHo loft with exposed brick and tons of macrame and a chiffon canopy bed—all purchased with her modest trust fund. When she sometimes has anxiety attacks about “becoming a grown up,” she talks herself down by reminding herself how wonderful it is that she is living authentically and honoring her truest spirit while making her own way in the world.

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Anonymous wrote:Ann Demeulemeester

You’re effortlessly cool. Like Grace Jones, it doesn’t seem like you’re you’re trying hard; you’re not trying at all, so you’re basically a 1 in 1 billion person in DC. I have no idea why you came to this stodgy town (your international husband is an ambassador from Scandinavia?). You throw the best, most low-key parties and eschew the social scene (you find the dramatics and theatrics associated with it pedestrian and déclassé). You have a strong sense of self and, honest to God, don’t care what others think of you. You don’t really believe in God, but you don’t exactly believe in him, either. It’s a popular topic of discussion at your house. Your 10 year old twin boys are very smart, well-adjusted kids and very polite. You also have a large family dog. You liked Pilates before it went mainstream and have a machine at home; it’s been a life-saver in quarantine. You’re also an avid swimmer. You have a keen eye for art, and your walls are decorated with new artists you sponsor. You’re a pescatarian and think Le Diplomate is overrated, but really enjoy Mikko. You even tried to hire Mikko as your personal chef, but he’s too invested in the restaurant. Alas, there’s always next year ... or simply buying his restaurant for a good price!

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Pull&Bear

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Opening Ceremony

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she was really into The Strokes, Interpol and Yeah Yeah Yeahs back in the early aughts. Any mention of Cobra Snake, The Misshapes and Last Night's Party will cause a wave of nostalgia so intense that it almost brings her to her knees in her Petworth rowhouse. When that wave strikes, she retreats to into her extensive vinyl collection, listening to Patti Smith, Niko, and Kate Bush. When she rides her bike to her graphic design job, she has a fleeting moment of dying on her bike like Niko did, but that's just morbid romanticism -- she's very much alive and looking forward to the next Criterion collection release.