What is that WASP aesthetic?

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Farmhouse chic is too trendy for WASPs I think? I imagine a more classic space.

This is California pinterest-esque decor and fashion

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Anonymous wrote:A little preppy, but very understated. Classics— button downs, straight-fit denim, ballet flats and low-heeled pumps by classic designers. Understated but real jewelry (pearls and classic diamond studs, preferably family heirlooms). The look can go a little bit tweedy or a little bit edgy or a little bit girly, but not too much.

Long hair, but not too long. A WASP needs a classic ponytail for tennis and that perfect wind blown look for photos near on the beach next to the summer house or out on the boat. Subtle highlights, but a WASP is not going to go super bottle blonde. Most of the Wasps I know have very shiny brown hair.

Very little makeup. Clean face. A little color from outdoor activity, as a Wasp should be spending weekends and holidays boating, skiing, or relaxing at one of their family’s or family friend’s weekend homes.

Wasp icons: Gwyneth Paltrow, Jackie Kennedy, a host of socialites who have also written for Vogue at one time or another.

Wasn’t jackie catholic?

Yes. And chicer than any WASP. Especially WASP’s of that era. Also, any WASP I’ve known looked down upon the Kennedy’s, and while maybe not her in particular, a bit of guilt by association.

Eleanor Roosevelt.

George H.W. and Barbara Bush

And Barbara was never thin. She dressed the WASP part. Not fashion icon status, but she always looked nice and put together.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A lot of this is spot on. I went to a ne boarding school In the mid 90s ( not wasp);

Old j crew roll necks
Barbour jackets and barn jackets
Duck boots and llbean backpacks
Dull colors
No to low makeup
Air dried hair, mostly straight
Sun kissed look but never fake tanned
Women A bit horsey. Looks like you could be on the crew team
Men a little bit femme I the cut of the clothes
White ball caps and unkept hair in the boys
Taste in music like phish or old crew medicine show

This. All of this. I wouldn’t say actual WASPs are any kind of fashion icons. They do have dresses for parties but they’re not anything special. The women I know are trim but with athletic builds. They look like they could still play lacrosse or swim or jump on a horse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A lot of this is spot on. I went to a ne boarding school In the mid 90s ( not wasp);

Old j crew roll necks
Barbour jackets and barn jackets
Duck boots and llbean backpacks
Dull colors
No to low makeup
Air dried hair, mostly straight
Sun kissed look but never fake tanned
Women A bit horsey. Looks like you could be on the crew team
Men a little bit femme I the cut of the clothes
White ball caps and unkept hair in the boys
Taste in music like phish or old crew medicine show

This is spot on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of this is spot on. I went to a ne boarding school In the mid 90s ( not wasp);

Old j crew roll necks
Barbour jackets and barn jackets
Duck boots and llbean backpacks
Dull colors
No to low makeup
Air dried hair, mostly straight
Sun kissed look but never fake tanned
Women A bit horsey. Looks like you could be on the crew team
Men a little bit femme I the cut of the clothes
White ball caps and unkept hair in the boys
Taste in music like phish or old crew medicine show

This. All of this. I wouldn’t say actual WASPs are any kind of fashion icons. They do have dresses for parties but they’re not anything special. The women I know are trim but with athletic builds. They look like they could still play lacrosse or swim or jump on a horse.

No, I feel like this was also everyone at the catholic school I attended in the 90s.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Muffy Aldrich instagram

Can we just never bring up Muffy again? She dresses like a man. I guess "like" is a bad work because she quite literally wears mostly men's clothes. She is not a fashionable WASP icon like Carolyn Bassett, Katerine Hepburn, Jackie O

Who is this “Carolyn Bassett” that has been mentioned several times? Is she a lovely WASPY hound dog? Or could you be referring to Carolyn Bessette Kennedy? If so, please learn to spell her name. Also, as pointed out earlier, she’s Catholic. Whomp whomp. All your WASPs are belong to Jews and Catholics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Queen, William and Kate, most of the royal family.

I was going to say Kate Middleton is the epitome of WASP aesthetic. When she wears high-end designers, it s still always an understated look. She never wears anything that screams a label.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of this is spot on. I went to a ne boarding school In the mid 90s ( not wasp);

Old j crew roll necks
Barbour jackets and barn jackets
Duck boots and llbean backpacks
Dull colors
No to low makeup
Air dried hair, mostly straight
Sun kissed look but never fake tanned
Women A bit horsey. Looks like you could be on the crew team
Men a little bit femme I the cut of the clothes
White ball caps and unkept hair in the boys
Taste in music like phish or old crew medicine show

This. All of this. I wouldn’t say actual WASPs are any kind of fashion icons. They do have dresses for parties but they’re not anything special. The women I know are trim but with athletic builds. They look like they could still play lacrosse or swim or jump on a horse.

No, I feel like this was also everyone at the catholic school I attended in the 90s.

Catholics definitely ape the WASP look.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of this is spot on. I went to a ne boarding school In the mid 90s ( not wasp);

Old j crew roll necks
Barbour jackets and barn jackets
Duck boots and llbean backpacks
Dull colors
No to low makeup
Air dried hair, mostly straight
Sun kissed look but never fake tanned
Women A bit horsey. Looks like you could be on the crew team
Men a little bit femme I the cut of the clothes
White ball caps and unkept hair in the boys
Taste in music like phish or old crew medicine show

This. All of this. I wouldn’t say actual WASPs are any kind of fashion icons. They do have dresses for parties but they’re not anything special. The women I know are trim but with athletic builds. They look like they could still play lacrosse or swim or jump on a horse.

No, I feel like this was also everyone at the catholic school I attended in the 90s.

Catholics definitely ape the WASP look.

Exactly who are they aping? Nobody has mentioned a real WASP yet in here, its been all Catholic and Jewish women. If this is such an iconic obvious look, why has it been so hard to identify one actual WASP who embodies it? One thing I know, skimpy bikinis, are not part of the "look."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of this is spot on. I went to a ne boarding school In the mid 90s ( not wasp);

Old j crew roll necks
Barbour jackets and barn jackets
Duck boots and llbean backpacks
Dull colors
No to low makeup
Air dried hair, mostly straight
Sun kissed look but never fake tanned
Women A bit horsey. Looks like you could be on the crew team
Men a little bit femme I the cut of the clothes
White ball caps and unkept hair in the boys
Taste in music like phish or old crew medicine show

This. All of this. I wouldn’t say actual WASPs are any kind of fashion icons. They do have dresses for parties but they’re not anything special. The women I know are trim but with athletic builds. They look like they could still play lacrosse or swim or jump on a horse.

No, I feel like this was also everyone at the catholic school I attended in the 90s.

Catholics definitely ape the WASP look.

Exactly who are they aping? Nobody has mentioned a real WASP yet in here, its been all Catholic and Jewish women. If this is such an iconic obvious look, why has it been so hard to identify one actual WASP who embodies it? One thing I know, skimpy bikinis, are not part of the "look."

If they're visible enough for people on this thread to have noticed them, they're too flashy to be an actual WASP.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of this is spot on. I went to a ne boarding school In the mid 90s ( not wasp);

Old j crew roll necks
Barbour jackets and barn jackets
Duck boots and llbean backpacks
Dull colors
No to low makeup
Air dried hair, mostly straight
Sun kissed look but never fake tanned
Women A bit horsey. Looks like you could be on the crew team
Men a little bit femme I the cut of the clothes
White ball caps and unkept hair in the boys
Taste in music like phish or old crew medicine show

This. All of this. I wouldn’t say actual WASPs are any kind of fashion icons. They do have dresses for parties but they’re not anything special. The women I know are trim but with athletic builds. They look like they could still play lacrosse or swim or jump on a horse.

No, I feel like this was also everyone at the catholic school I attended in the 90s.

Catholics definitely ape the WASP look.

Exactly who are they aping? Nobody has mentioned a real WASP yet in here, its been all Catholic and Jewish women. If this is such an iconic obvious look, why has it been so hard to identify one actual WASP who embodies it? One thing I know, skimpy bikinis, are not part of the "look."

Yes they have. See above on Brits. Think about where the "Anglo-Saxon" in WASP came from.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of this is spot on. I went to a ne boarding school In the mid 90s ( not wasp);

Old j crew roll necks
Barbour jackets and barn jackets
Duck boots and llbean backpacks
Dull colors
No to low makeup
Air dried hair, mostly straight
Sun kissed look but never fake tanned
Women A bit horsey. Looks like you could be on the crew team
Men a little bit femme I the cut of the clothes
White ball caps and unkept hair in the boys
Taste in music like phish or old crew medicine show

This. All of this. I wouldn’t say actual WASPs are any kind of fashion icons. They do have dresses for parties but they’re not anything special. The women I know are trim but with athletic builds. They look like they could still play lacrosse or swim or jump on a horse.

No, I feel like this was also everyone at the catholic school I attended in the 90s.

Catholics definitely ape the WASP look.

Exactly who are they aping? Nobody has mentioned a real WASP yet in here, its been all Catholic and Jewish women. If this is such an iconic obvious look, why has it been so hard to identify one actual WASP who embodies it? One thing I know, skimpy bikinis, are not part of the "look."

Yes they have. See above on Brits. Think about where the "Anglo-Saxon" in WASP came from.

I know what it means. The examples given in here show that many people have no idea what they are talking about.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of this is spot on. I went to a ne boarding school In the mid 90s ( not wasp);

Old j crew roll necks
Barbour jackets and barn jackets
Duck boots and llbean backpacks
Dull colors
No to low makeup
Air dried hair, mostly straight
Sun kissed look but never fake tanned
Women A bit horsey. Looks like you could be on the crew team
Men a little bit femme I the cut of the clothes
White ball caps and unkept hair in the boys
Taste in music like phish or old crew medicine show

This. All of this. I wouldn’t say actual WASPs are any kind of fashion icons. They do have dresses for parties but they’re not anything special. The women I know are trim but with athletic builds. They look like they could still play lacrosse or swim or jump on a horse.

No, I feel like this was also everyone at the catholic school I attended in the 90s.

Catholics definitely ape the WASP look.

Exactly who are they aping? Nobody has mentioned a real WASP yet in here, its been all Catholic and Jewish women. If this is such an iconic obvious look, why has it been so hard to identify one actual WASP who embodies it? One thing I know, skimpy bikinis, are not part of the "look."

Yes they have. See above on Brits. Think about where the "Anglo-Saxon" in WASP came from.

And Roosevelt and Bush, whom you may not consider fashion icons.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of this is spot on. I went to a ne boarding school In the mid 90s ( not wasp);

Old j crew roll necks
Barbour jackets and barn jackets
Duck boots and llbean backpacks
Dull colors
No to low makeup
Air dried hair, mostly straight
Sun kissed look but never fake tanned
Women A bit horsey. Looks like you could be on the crew team
Men a little bit femme I the cut of the clothes
White ball caps and unkept hair in the boys
Taste in music like phish or old crew medicine show

This. All of this. I wouldn’t say actual WASPs are any kind of fashion icons. They do have dresses for parties but they’re not anything special. The women I know are trim but with athletic builds. They look like they could still play lacrosse or swim or jump on a horse.

No, I feel like this was also everyone at the catholic school I attended in the 90s.

Catholics definitely ape the WASP look.

Exactly who are they aping? Nobody has mentioned a real WASP yet in here, its been all Catholic and Jewish women. If this is such an iconic obvious look, why has it been so hard to identify one actual WASP who embodies it? One thing I know, skimpy bikinis, are not part of the "look."

Yes they have. See above on Brits. Think about where the "Anglo-Saxon" in WASP came from.

I know what it means. The examples given in here show that many people have no idea what they are talking about.

Do educate the NOC, dear.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of this is spot on. I went to a ne boarding school In the mid 90s ( not wasp);

Old j crew roll necks
Barbour jackets and barn jackets
Duck boots and llbean backpacks
Dull colors
No to low makeup
Air dried hair, mostly straight
Sun kissed look but never fake tanned
Women A bit horsey. Looks like you could be on the crew team
Men a little bit femme I the cut of the clothes
White ball caps and unkept hair in the boys
Taste in music like phish or old crew medicine show

This. All of this. I wouldn’t say actual WASPs are any kind of fashion icons. They do have dresses for parties but they’re not anything special. The women I know are trim but with athletic builds. They look like they could still play lacrosse or swim or jump on a horse.

No, I feel like this was also everyone at the catholic school I attended in the 90s.

Catholics definitely ape the WASP look.

Exactly who are they aping? Nobody has mentioned a real WASP yet in here, its been all Catholic and Jewish women. If this is such an iconic obvious look, why has it been so hard to identify one actual WASP who embodies it? One thing I know, skimpy bikinis, are not part of the "look."

Yes they have. See above on Brits. Think about where the "Anglo-Saxon" in WASP came from.

And Roosevelt and Bush, whom you may not consider fashion icons.

The OPs question was what do they dress and look like. If the examples are Roosevelt and Bush then that's not exactly current or relevant. So does modern WASP not exist in the US? Who in the US best exemplifies this "look" who isn't dead or 90?