Most preppy DC

[Anonymous]

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Born at Sibley
Grew up in Wesley Heights (44th St)
NCS/STA for HS
Bowdoin or Amherst College
2 years after college in NYC
1 year in London
Move back to DC after marriage, live in GP then Wesley Heights with kids rinse and repeat...

If you're of a certain age, your birth certificate should say Columbia Hospital for Women, not Sibley. And there should be at least one Garfinckel's box or bag kicking around somewhere in your attic.

Would a Garfinckel's hat box do? What if said box contains a hat with a Julius Garfinckel label?

Also, you would need to have a fur coat from Saks Jandel. A full length one. And, a Washington Charge Plate.

You are my people. My parents were born and raised in Connecticut. Transplants here. Prep schools and University in New England. My mom and her best friend neighbor would pick me up when I faked sick in elementary school and take me on their Garfinckel’s shopping trips.I can still picture that store. Also, the old Lord&Taylor.

I agree DC prep is nothing like New England Prep. The most dressed down my dad got was his worn, old Lacoste polos.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:With relatives in parents from New England...this is lame. DC can't top New England prep.

Puuuuuleeeeese don't bring the NE comparison up. Apples and oranges, people.

And nothing raises a southerners (including DC) hackles like mentioning the NE.

There is nothing - literally not one thing - “southern” about DC/NoVA/MOCO. Nothing.

/actual southerner.

Thank goodness for that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Born at Sibley
Grew up in Wesley Heights (44th St)
NCS/STA for HS
Bowdoin or Amherst College
2 years after college in NYC
1 year in London
Move back to DC after marriage, live in GP then Wesley Heights with kids rinse and repeat...

What am I missing?

You are missing volunteer work: starting 1X week in KDG at BVR and advancing to 8 hours a week 10th& 11th grade. This is both because your parents also volunteer for several organizations and its just what is expected.

Lots of sports: from Pre-K parents will likely have had you playing ice hockey or soccer, minimum but also tennis and ballet plus an instrument.

Some time in HS you will be expected to score some impressive internship or academic fellowship. This is because your parents did the same as did their parents. This all leads up to interning on the Hill, clerking for SCOTUS while at Harvard Law, etc....

what else was left out: CIT job at camp in VT, Maine or NH and Summers at Squam

[Anonymous]

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).

[Anonymous]

Born at Sibley
Grew up in Wesley Heights (44th St)
NCS/STA for HS
Bowdoin or Amherst College
2 years after college in NYC
1 year in London
Move back to DC after marriage, live in GP then Wesley Heights with kids rinse and repeat...

What am I missing?

Wedding at the Sulgrave Club; mom has been a member for years

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:15:21 here again. And yeah, I was born at Sibley and so were my kids.

So many of these answers are so off! You guys are such a bunch of posers. So obvious you aren't from here.

Sibley has no status these days. It's a third world hospital...with hardly any private rooms.

Any woman with a brain delivers at GWU or GHU instead.

Its for old people, not babies.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Green Book
Sulgrave, Met Club, Chevy
Ann Hand
Wagshal’s
Arielle
Susan Gage
Nantucket
Kellogg Collection
Decarlos (rip)
Cafe Matisse

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:In Town
Christ Church, St Johns, St Columbas or St Albans Church
Beauvoir, NPS or St Patricks
Shippins, now Simpsons
NCS/STA
Sulgrave, Met Club and CCC
Georgetown, Wesley Heights, Spring Valley or Chevy Chase Village
Bethany or Nantucket, never OC.

Spot on.

Also add Kent and Foxhall areas. So true. It's funny because the kids that grew up in places like Cleveland Park are what we'd call "hipsters" today.

Exactly. Ideally your NW neighborhood should be barely accessible by MetroBus, and far, far away from any MetroRail stations.

What is Shippins?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A personality

+1

Nailed it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So there are natives in DC, really? Thought everyone who was anyone is from elsewhere.

+1

By definition.

[Anonymous]

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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?

Maine
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...

+1

BOOOOOOOORINGG.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:15:21 here again. And yeah, I was born at Sibley and so were my kids.

So many of these answers are so off! You guys are such a bunch of posers. So obvious you aren't from here.

+1

So obvious you ARE from here. Fixed that for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OC/REhobeth, Bethany is not/has never been preppy

This 1000%.

[Anonymous]

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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!

If you are from Morocco, Swaziland or Lesotho maybe you are a legit princess.

If you are from Zululand, Ghana, Zambia, Uganda, Nigeria, Congo or Ethiopia you are a poseur.

I will not tell you what country I am from, but I am definitely not a poseur….

Her Excellency, Princess A…..

That’s all great. But it’s not preppy, which is what we were talking about.