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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. [/quote]

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.  [/quote]

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. [/quote]

I think there are preppy people in a lot of places but I don’t think they are just in NY and I don’t think they are all old line, multigenerational wealth types from a subset of New Englanders and New York families. I do think the prep scene has become much less attractive to many of those types, especially in NYC and amongst the younger set over the last 20 years.  Ironically, the pp limits the size and scope of true preps to only the narrow band of people I see moving away from it. [/quote]

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