Signs you are a YUPPIE

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Anonymous wrote:So many of the NYC kids who attend Dalton, Collegiate, Trinity, H.Mann, Spence etc are absolute ANTI-preps. Don’t own a thing that is preppy, would never be caught dead at Murray’s and think Shep and Ian are tools. “Preppy” is not just old money or old NE money it’s old money plus a lifestyle.

The folks that live in NYC, shop at the Beretta Gallery and have horses in two or three states, are another story.

Of course. Not everyone who went to those schools is preppy, but in order to really be preppy, you have to have gone to a school like that.

You didn’t say this?

I did. There are schools like that in Baltimore, but there are many fewer of them than in the NYC & New England areas.

The schools you are talking about might have some preps but they are not the cool kids or the predominant kids. Again, Robert Chambers and the 80s left the building a long time ago.

The NYC are the only preps poster contradicts him/herself pretty readily.

Care to address either the dictionary definition or the Wikipedia entry I posted above?

Seriously? Actual preps have moves well past your citations. To wit:

https://www.hercampus.com/lifestyle/pinnies-pearls-preppiest-schools

https://totalsororitymove.com/these-are-the-12-preppiest-colleges-in-america/

http://waspsnest18.blogspot.com/2014/03/college-prep-preppiest-colleges-in.html?m=1

http://theprepguide.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-preppiest-colleges-universities-in.html?m=1

Again, that’s all about clothes.

The dictionary agrees with me that it’s as much about schooling/pedigree as anything else. I don’t really care about your random websites.

It’s about lifestyle more than anything.

[Anonymous]

hey guys a much more fun thread would be to post where you shop for groceries, what you drink, what book you last read, what art (if any) on the walls, and so forth etc and then we can nominate a name for you (west coast mllenial; middle age mom with parents from Cleveland who married BigLaw layer and lives in Potomac; social justice warrior who studied politics and art history at Vassar and works at a non profit and is really bummed her yoga retreat was cancelled,

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Anonymous wrote:So many of the NYC kids who attend Dalton, Collegiate, Trinity, H.Mann, Spence etc are absolute ANTI-preps. Don’t own a thing that is preppy, would never be caught dead at Murray’s and think Shep and Ian are tools. “Preppy” is not just old money or old NE money it’s old money plus a lifestyle.

The folks that live in NYC, shop at the Beretta Gallery and have horses in two or three states, are another story.

Of course. Not everyone who went to those schools is preppy, but in order to really be preppy, you have to have gone to a school like that.

You didn’t say this?

I did. There are schools like that in Baltimore, but there are many fewer of them than in the NYC & New England areas.

The schools you are talking about might have some preps but they are not the cool kids or the predominant kids. Again, Robert Chambers and the 80s left the building a long time ago.

The NYC are the only preps poster contradicts him/herself pretty readily.

Care to address either the dictionary definition or the Wikipedia entry I posted above?

Seriously? Actual preps have moves well past your citations. To wit:

https://www.hercampus.com/lifestyle/pinnies-pearls-preppiest-schools

https://totalsororitymove.com/these-are-the-12-preppiest-colleges-in-america/

http://waspsnest18.blogspot.com/2014/03/college-prep-preppiest-colleges-in.html?m=1

http://theprepguide.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-preppiest-colleges-universities-in.html?m=1

Again, that’s all about clothes.

The dictionary agrees with me that it’s as much about schooling/pedigree as anything else. I don’t really care about your random websites.

It’s about lifestyle more than anything.

Upper class lifestyle has EVERYTHING to do with schooling & pedigree. That’s my entire point.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone ever been to the Preakness and or to the Belmont? One is chock full of preps and the other is not. Ever been to the Annapolis Yacht Club and the NY Yacht Club. Muddy is in Maryland my friends.

Ever been to Martha’s Vineyard, Southampton or Nantucket? Ever been to the University Club, Harvard Club, Yale Club, etc. in NYC?

And you made my point with New York Yacht Club.

I own a home in Nantucket, am a member of the Union Club of the City of New York, the Links, the Metropolitan Club of the City of Washington and have been on more boats from Newport to Miami than you have probably been in cars and know for a fact that preps abound in places far beyond your book based sensibility to understand. And by the way, the NY Yacht is a fraction as preppy as the club in Annapolis.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone ever been to the Preakness and or to the Belmont? One is chock full of preps and the other is not. Ever been to the Annapolis Yacht Club and the NY Yacht Club. Muddy is in Maryland my friends.

Ever been to Martha’s Vineyard, Southampton or Nantucket? Ever been to the University Club, Harvard Club, Yale Club, etc. in NYC?

And you made my point with New York Yacht Club.

I own a home in Nantucket, am a member of the Union Club of the City of New York, the Links, the Metropolitan Club of the City of Washington and have been on more boats from Newport to Miami than you have probably been in cars and know for a fact that preps abound in places far beyond your book based sensibility to understand. And by the way, the NY Yacht is a fraction as preppy as the club in Annapolis.

Book-based sensibility? Hardly. I’ve lived in Manhattan for most of my life and went to prep school. My entire point is that there’s more of that in the NY/New England area than in the DC area.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone ever been to the Preakness and or to the Belmont? One is chock full of preps and the other is not. Ever been to the Annapolis Yacht Club and the NY Yacht Club. Muddy is in Maryland my friends.

Ever been to Martha’s Vineyard, Southampton or Nantucket? Ever been to the University Club, Harvard Club, Yale Club, etc. in NYC?

And you made my point with New York Yacht Club.

I own a home in Nantucket, am a member of the Union Club of the City of New York, the Links, the Metropolitan Club of the City of Washington and have been on more boats from Newport to Miami than you have probably been in cars and know for a fact that preps abound in places far beyond your book based sensibility to understand. And by the way, the NY Yacht is a fraction as preppy as the club in Annapolis.

Book-based sensibility? Hardly. I’ve lived in Manhattan for most of my life and went to prep school. My entire point is that there’s more of that in the NY/New England area than in the Dc area.

You cited the dictionary to substantiate a claim that is not backed up by the facts. The Union Club in NYC is the OLDEST club in the city and it does not hold a candle to the prep nature of the “upstart” Met Club in DC. The Links is in the same boat. Columbia and NYU can’t touch Georgetown’s prep vibe. Landon and STA kids look differently than Trinity kids. NYC might be richer and older but Md and Dc have picked up a torch that NYC folks don’t carry in the same way any more.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone ever been to the Preakness and or to the Belmont? One is chock full of preps and the other is not. Ever been to the Annapolis Yacht Club and the NY Yacht Club. Muddy is in Maryland my friends.

Ever been to Martha’s Vineyard, Southampton or Nantucket? Ever been to the University Club, Harvard Club, Yale Club, etc. in NYC?

And you made my point with New York Yacht Club.

I own a home in Nantucket, am a member of the Union Club of the City of New York, the Links, the Metropolitan Club of the City of Washington and have been on more boats from Newport to Miami than you have probably been in cars and know for a fact that preps abound in places far beyond your book based sensibility to understand. And by the way, the NY Yacht is a fraction as preppy as the club in Annapolis.

Book-based sensibility? Hardly. I’ve lived in Manhattan for most of my life and went to prep school. My entire point is that there’s more of that in the NY/New England area than in the Dc area.

You cited the dictionary to substantiate a claim that is not backed up by the facts. The Union Club in NYC is the OLDEST club in the city and it does not hold a candle to the prep nature of the “upstart” Met Club in DC. The Links is in the same boat. Columbia and NYU can’t touch Georgetown’s prep vibe. Landon and STA kids look differently than Trinity kids. NYC might be richer and older but Md and Dc have picked up a torch that NYC folks don’t carry in the same way any more.

Define “prep nature.”

I’m not talking about how someone dresses; I’m talking about lifestyle, upbringing, and the circles your family travels in.

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Preppy is not purely a style of dress; it’s your family’s generational wealth and whether you have access to halls of power.

Anyone can go get a Vineyard Vines shirt at the mall — does that make them preppy? Only in the most superficial definition of the word.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone ever been to the Preakness and or to the Belmont? One is chock full of preps and the other is not. Ever been to the Annapolis Yacht Club and the NY Yacht Club. Muddy is in Maryland my friends.

Ever been to Martha’s Vineyard, Southampton or Nantucket? Ever been to the University Club, Harvard Club, Yale Club, etc. in NYC?

And you made my point with New York Yacht Club.

I own a home in Nantucket, am a member of the Union Club of the City of New York, the Links, the Metropolitan Club of the City of Washington and have been on more boats from Newport to Miami than you have probably been in cars and know for a fact that preps abound in places far beyond your book based sensibility to understand. And by the way, the NY Yacht is a fraction as preppy as the club in Annapolis.

Book-based sensibility? Hardly. I’ve lived in Manhattan for most of my life and went to prep school. My entire point is that there’s more of that in the NY/New England area than in the Dc area.

You cited the dictionary to substantiate a claim that is not backed up by the facts. The Union Club in NYC is the OLDEST club in the city and it does not hold a candle to the prep nature of the “upstart” Met Club in DC. The Links is in the same boat. Columbia and NYU can’t touch Georgetown’s prep vibe. Landon and STA kids look differently than Trinity kids. NYC might be richer and older but Md and Dc have picked up a torch that NYC folks don’t carry in the same way any more.

Define “prep nature.”

I’m not talking about how someone dresses; I’m talking about lifestyle, upbringing, and the circles your family travels in.

You will never meet anyone who has deeper roots in the classic prep scene that I think you are thinking of and I can tell you first hand it’s moved past where you think it is, dictionary be damned.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone ever been to the Preakness and or to the Belmont? One is chock full of preps and the other is not. Ever been to the Annapolis Yacht Club and the NY Yacht Club. Muddy is in Maryland my friends.

Ever been to Martha’s Vineyard, Southampton or Nantucket? Ever been to the University Club, Harvard Club, Yale Club, etc. in NYC?

And you made my point with New York Yacht Club.

I own a home in Nantucket, am a member of the Union Club of the City of New York, the Links, the Metropolitan Club of the City of Washington and have been on more boats from Newport to Miami than you have probably been in cars and know for a fact that preps abound in places far beyond your book based sensibility to understand. And by the way, the NY Yacht is a fraction as preppy as the club in Annapolis.

Book-based sensibility? Hardly. I’ve lived in Manhattan for most of my life and went to prep school. My entire point is that there’s more of that in the NY/New England area than in the Dc area.

You cited the dictionary to substantiate a claim that is not backed up by the facts. The Union Club in NYC is the OLDEST club in the city and it does not hold a candle to the prep nature of the “upstart” Met Club in DC. The Links is in the same boat. Columbia and NYU can’t touch Georgetown’s prep vibe. Landon and STA kids look differently than Trinity kids. NYC might be richer and older but Md and Dc have picked up a torch that NYC folks don’t carry in the same way any more.

Define “prep nature.”

I’m not talking about how someone dresses; I’m talking about lifestyle, upbringing, and the circles your family travels in.

You will never meet anyone who has deeper roots in the classic prep scene that I think you are thinking of and I can tell you first hand it’s moved past where you think it is, dictionary be damned.

It’s moved beyond people going to prep schools and summering in places like Martha’s Vineyard, Southampton, and Nantucket, and spending winters in places like Tahoe and Vail? Not when it comes to the folks I know from prep school and college. Their families are as rich as ever and their vacation spots are the same.

I couldn’t care less about what people wear; that’s not what I’m referring to.

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Anonymous wrote:Preppy is not purely a style of dress; it’s your family’s generational wealth and whether you have access to halls of power.

Anyone can go get a Vineyard Vines shirt at the mall — does that make them preppy? Only in the most superficial definition of the word.

Not exactly. Money is involved but it’s more about lifestyle: do you boat, hunt (things like upland game and ducks, not deer), ride horses, do you golf and are you a member of many clubs, did you dad pass along his watch. Do you go to Jackson Hole, Winter Harbor, Sconset... There is no access to power issue and while it takes some means, it’s not out of this world.

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Anonymous wrote:hey guys a much more fun thread would be to post where you shop for groceries, what you drink, what book you last read, what art (if any) on the walls, and so forth etc and then we can nominate a name for you (west coast mllenial; middle age mom with parents from Cleveland who married BigLaw layer and lives in Potomac; social justice warrior who studied politics and art history at Vassar and works at a non profit and is really bummed her yoga retreat was cancelled,

Ok I am here for this!

I shop at FreshDirect and Trader Joe’s.
I am a serious coffee snob: I own 4 different coffee makers (Chemex, french press, aeropress and an espresso machine), a manual and an electric grinder, and spouse and I spend lots of time choosing and buying coffee beans. But I only drink one cup a day.
I also drink wine, and I drink water and some herbal teas. I don’t drink anything else.
The last book I read was Thief of Time by John Boyne, and I just started Anxious People by Fredrik Backman.
On my walls I have a mixture of paintings (mostly abstract modern in bright colors) by contemporary artists from Canada, France and Israel. I also have some prints by British and American artists, and I have some photos and kids paintings. I also have a lot of bookshelves filled with books, mostly fiction.

Have at me!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Preppy is not purely a style of dress; it’s your family’s generational wealth and whether you have access to halls of power.

Anyone can go get a Vineyard Vines shirt at the mall — does that make them preppy? Only in the most superficial definition of the word.

Not exactly. Money is involved but it’s more about lifestyle: do you boat, hunt (things like upland game and ducks, not deer), ride horses, do you golf and are you a member of many clubs, did you dad pass along his watch. Do you go to Jackson Hole, Winter Harbor, Sconset... There is no access to power issue and while it takes some means, it’s not out of this world.

And why would you think the DC area unequivocally has more of all of that than NYC/New England? Plenty of people do all of that in the Northeast.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone ever been to the Preakness and or to the Belmont? One is chock full of preps and the other is not. Ever been to the Annapolis Yacht Club and the NY Yacht Club. Muddy is in Maryland my friends.

Ever been to Martha’s Vineyard, Southampton or Nantucket? Ever been to the University Club, Harvard Club, Yale Club, etc. in NYC?

And you made my point with New York Yacht Club.

I own a home in Nantucket, am a member of the Union Club of the City of New York, the Links, the Metropolitan Club of the City of Washington and have been on more boats from Newport to Miami than you have probably been in cars and know for a fact that preps abound in places far beyond your book based sensibility to understand. And by the way, the NY Yacht is a fraction as preppy as the club in Annapolis.

Book-based sensibility? Hardly. I’ve lived in Manhattan for most of my life and went to prep school. My entire point is that there’s more of that in the NY/New England area than in the Dc area.

You cited the dictionary to substantiate a claim that is not backed up by the facts. The Union Club in NYC is the OLDEST club in the city and it does not hold a candle to the prep nature of the “upstart” Met Club in DC. The Links is in the same boat. Columbia and NYU can’t touch Georgetown’s prep vibe. Landon and STA kids look differently than Trinity kids. NYC might be richer and older but Md and Dc have picked up a torch that NYC folks don’t carry in the same way any more.

Define “prep nature.”

I’m not talking about how someone dresses; I’m talking about lifestyle, upbringing, and the circles your family travels in.

You will never meet anyone who has deeper roots in the classic prep scene that I think you are thinking of and I can tell you first hand it’s moved past where you think it is, dictionary be damned.

It’s moved beyond people going to prep schools and summering in places like Martha’s Vineyard, Southampton, and Nantucket, and spending winters in places like Tahoe and Vail? Not when it comes to the folks I know from prep school and college. Their families are as rich as ever and their vacation spots are the same.

I couldn’t care less about what people wear; that’s not what I’m referring to.

Tahoe and Vail are NOT preppy. Neither is Southampton. You confuse rich with preppy. The cool kids get tattoos, slick their hair back and jump in Teslas in Vail while the preps put on flannel and blaze and pull out their custom Berettas and head to Oxford, Md.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone ever been to the Preakness and or to the Belmont? One is chock full of preps and the other is not. Ever been to the Annapolis Yacht Club and the NY Yacht Club. Muddy is in Maryland my friends.

Ever been to Martha’s Vineyard, Southampton or Nantucket? Ever been to the University Club, Harvard Club, Yale Club, etc. in NYC?

And you made my point with New York Yacht Club.

I own a home in Nantucket, am a member of the Union Club of the City of New York, the Links, the Metropolitan Club of the City of Washington and have been on more boats from Newport to Miami than you have probably been in cars and know for a fact that preps abound in places far beyond your book based sensibility to understand. And by the way, the NY Yacht is a fraction as preppy as the club in Annapolis.

Book-based sensibility? Hardly. I’ve lived in Manhattan for most of my life and went to prep school. My entire point is that there’s more of that in the NY/New England area than in the Dc area.

You cited the dictionary to substantiate a claim that is not backed up by the facts. The Union Club in NYC is the OLDEST club in the city and it does not hold a candle to the prep nature of the “upstart” Met Club in DC. The Links is in the same boat. Columbia and NYU can’t touch Georgetown’s prep vibe. Landon and STA kids look differently than Trinity kids. NYC might be richer and older but Md and Dc have picked up a torch that NYC folks don’t carry in the same way any more.

Define “prep nature.”

I’m not talking about how someone dresses; I’m talking about lifestyle, upbringing, and the circles your family travels in.

You will never meet anyone who has deeper roots in the classic prep scene that I think you are thinking of and I can tell you first hand it’s moved past where you think it is, dictionary be damned.

It’s moved beyond people going to prep schools and summering in places like Martha’s Vineyard, Southampton, and Nantucket, and spending winters in places like Tahoe and Vail? Not when it comes to the folks I know from prep school and college. Their families are as rich as ever and their vacation spots are the same.

I couldn’t care less about what people wear; that’s not what I’m referring to.

Tahoe and Vail are NOT preppy. Neither is Southampton. You confuse rich with preppy. The cool kids get tattoos, slick their hair back and jump in Teslas in Vail while the preps put on flannel and blaze and pull out their custom Berettas and head to Oxford, Md.

You’re making it about clothes again.

Preppy isn’t just a clothing style. It’s a term for upper class east coast people, historically in the NE. But it’s certainly not just clothes.