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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FWIW last time I checked, the Preppy Handbook has been out of print, but everyone had a copy of that in the early 1980s and if you used it as a primer, you were young. And the whole book was basically the analog version of "how to dress" without being able to order online and how to appear. I think. [/quote]
It's a funny gag book but I think some people take it seriously and treat it as a how-to guide rather than a joke.

I have a friend who actually uses slang from the book (worth noting we were born the year it came out so this is not like, something we would've read in hs and turned into an inside joke, she actually went through the glossary and uses phrases from it) and it's bizarre. [/quote]

I grew up on the Upper East Side, in the heart of faded money WASPs- Carnegie Hill. The Preppy Handbook was basically a reflection of our lives. We went to those schools, spent the summers in those towns, played the sports and had the gear. They got a lot right. If you read beyond the clothes part, there is a lot about Preppy attitude that is and was spot-on: the je ne said quoi attitude, always having the air of being bored by everything and the constant cocktails. A lot of this still lives on in circles though there is definitely more tolerance now of flashiness, new money and diversity. After all, we are no longer Republicans, that ended with the Bushes- who had impeccable Prep credentials😁[/quote]

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