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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What private school OP?  This is incredibly superficial.  [/quote]

It was Sidwell, but I don't get your comment. It's superficial for rich people to have nice clothes and look attractive and well groomed? Generally speaking, rich people go to expensive colleges. I just wasn't sure if the parents tended to flaunt it or if they are more understated.[/quote]

Wait a second -- you saw "beautiful people" at Sidwell?  Where?  In 10 years of PA meetings, parent peer groups, sports events, plays, graduations, etc., I've never seen "beautiful people" at Sidwell.  I mean, it's a nicer, saner parent body than most folks think, but visually, it's really forgettable -- appropriately-dressed middle-aged parents, which is, incidentally, what I've seen at move-in days and family weekends at the Ivy my kids attend.      [/quote]

What you think is "appropriately dressed" is expensively dressed/beautifully dressed to us minions who don't have $38,000 per year for HS and $60,000 plus per year for college. You probably take for granted nice suits and haircuts and cars and vacations and homes that I consider the province of what I call "beautiful people." No, they aren't models but they are 1%ers.[/quote]

I dunno -- you see a lot of Dads in Dockers.  Perhaps the most visually memorable costume I ever saw was the Dad who wore and old seersucker jacket and worn Gucci loafers to pre-graduation event . . . oh, and the teacher who is known for breaking out his white, disco-era suit on occasion (actually, come to think of it, there are at least 2 teachers whom I've seen so attired).  [/quote]

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