Most preppy DC

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a DC native (Georgetown hospital), third generation Green Book, etc, but left DC years ago. This post was somewhat amusing for the inaccuracies and blatant materialism. One of the hallmarks of true old DC class was that people didn’t care a whit for brands. It was much more fun back then (I’m mid-30s so it was actually even more fun when my mom was growing up).

PP, can you talk more about your experience? It'd be interesting to compare against the pages of assumptions made so far

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Half of you are describing 80s WASPs and the other half are just describing 2010s Glover Park party kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Where did they summer? Did they work at Credit Suisse? Did they work for a summer on Nantucket in college?

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No. At an NGO in NYC and an "art gallery" (tax writeoff) in London

A proper female prep will work in any of the following fields:
Auction House (esp. Sotheby's)
Gallery
Pre-School Teacher
At a magazine, ideally Martha Stewart
As an interior decorator

Oh hells no. Do NOT make me sit next to another "interior decorator" senators' wife...please...

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BOOOOOOOORINGG.

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And most of them have zero taste and/or training in the discipline

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Half of you are describing 80s WASPs and the other half are just describing 2010s Glover Park party kids.

This. Wtf. Limos? Shirts from Peter Millar? LATE NIGHT SHOTS?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Half of you are describing 80s WASPs and the other half are just describing 2010s Glover Park party kids.

This. Wtf. Limos? Shirts from Peter Millar? LATE NIGHT SHOTS?

SEC rich kids who came here during the GWB years.

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Turning discomfort into a virtue, e.g. flying business class to Europe, house entirely decorated in hand me down (antique) furnishings, never replacing that ancient vacuum cleaner (that only the housekeeper touches), etc.

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This thread sounds like what midwestern people think Georgetown WASPs are like. I say this as someone who grew up in the midwest.

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Was Mrs. Simpson’s manners class mentioned?

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Chi-di and third edition

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Anonymous wrote:This thread sounds like what midwestern people think Georgetown WASPs are like. I say this as someone who grew up in the midwest.

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Bought their children’s clothes at Lemon Twist + Beyda’s Lad & Lassie Shop
RIP

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is just a ton of non-preppy people pretending to be experts lol

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!

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.

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.

Beach houses in Delaware are not tacky. Limos to prom are tacky.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a DC native (Georgetown hospital), third generation Green Book, etc, but left DC years ago. This post was somewhat amusing for the inaccuracies and blatant materialism. One of the hallmarks of true old DC class was that people didn’t care a whit for brands. It was much more fun back then (I’m mid-30s so it was actually even more fun when my mom was growing up).

PP, can you talk more about your experience? It'd be interesting to compare against the pages of assumptions made so far

Sorry, just saw this - what do you want to know?

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Anonymous wrote:This is what you call preppy and rich?? 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!

That is not what this lame thread is about.

Need a new thread about how to bleed your African country dry. Nothing there to brag about.

^^ 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 have no idea what you're babbling about (well, actually, I do and it has nothing to do with preppies or wasps). I have bad news for you: most of the wealth in America didn't come from the sweat of black labor.

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Self absorbed white women - gross.