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Anonymous wrote:Brooks Brothers

Larla thought about seeking an Executive Husband on itsjustlunch.com, a dating website she discovered while flying business class on a Delta flight to Hartsfield International. Ultimately though, she decided to forego the spouse and work on her career.

Larla can trace her ancestry well back into the fifteenth century owing to the indefatigable work decades ago of a second cousin twice removed who became a stalwart of the DAR. Despite her ancestral WASP bona fides, Larla never identified with that tribe owing to her cosmopolitan background living variously in Paris and third world outposts growing up and the strong strain of Irish Catholicism in her family culture.

When she landed from overseas at her Ivy, she was first introduced to the world of Top Siders, khakis, and LL Bean Norwegian sweaters but persisted in wearing her mother's hand me downs of fine knit skirts and dresses bought in Portugal, boiled wool jackets from Austria, Scottish cashmere, and French scarves because the whole preppy thing seemed so alien and just not her.

Post MBA, she eschewed business suits whenever possible in favor of dresses, usually silk, paired with cardigans that could pass as jackets and had to go out of her way to find these items that were work appropriate. Scarves remained a staple accessory, together with leather belts and Ferragamos she would wear for years by keeping them in good repair.

One day she perused the Brooks Brothers site and discovered its collaboration with Zac Posen, a master at injecting prep sensibility with a cosmopolitan flair. This she could identify with! She is now hooked and single handedly trying to keep BB alive through the pandemic.

Wasps are not irish catholic. Literally a contradiction in terms

You are wrong. WASP marries Irish Catholic and converts. Children have WASP heritage that persists to further generations but can have Irish Catholic family culture.

Once you marry a Catholic you are no longer a WASP, or your children are not. That's the point of the name.

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Larla thought about seeking an Executive Husband on itsjustlunch.com, a dating website she discovered while flying business class on a Delta flight to Hartsfield International. Ultimately though, she decided to forego the spouse and work on her career.

Larla can trace her ancestry well back into the fifteenth century owing to the indefatigable work decades ago of a second cousin twice removed who became a stalwart of the DAR. Despite her ancestral WASP bona fides, Larla never identified with that tribe owing to her cosmopolitan background living variously in Paris and third world outposts growing up and the strong strain of Irish Catholicism in her family culture.

When she landed from overseas at her Ivy, she was first introduced to the world of Top Siders, khakis, and LL Bean Norwegian sweaters but persisted in wearing her mother's hand me downs of fine knit skirts and dresses bought in Portugal, boiled wool jackets from Austria, Scottish cashmere, and French scarves because the whole preppy thing seemed so alien and just not her.

Post MBA, she eschewed business suits whenever possible in favor of dresses, usually silk, paired with cardigans that could pass as jackets and had to go out of her way to find these items that were work appropriate. Scarves remained a staple accessory, together with leather belts and Ferragamos she would wear for years by keeping them in good repair.

One day she perused the Brooks Brothers site and discovered its collaboration with Zac Posen, a master at injecting prep sensibility with a cosmopolitan flair. This she could identify with! She is now hooked and single handedly trying to keep BB alive through the pandemic.

Wasps are not irish catholic. Literally a contradiction in terms

You are wrong. WASP marries Irish Catholic and converts. Children have WASP heritage that persists to further generations but can have Irish Catholic family culture.

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Larla thought about seeking an Executive Husband on itsjustlunch.com, a dating website she discovered while flying business class on a Delta flight to Hartsfield International. Ultimately though, she decided to forego the spouse and work on her career.

Larla can trace her ancestry well back into the fifteenth century owing to the indefatigable work decades ago of a second cousin twice removed who became a stalwart of the DAR. Despite her ancestral WASP bona fides, Larla never identified with that tribe owing to her cosmopolitan background living variously in Paris and third world outposts growing up and the strong strain of Irish Catholicism in her family culture.

When she landed from overseas at her Ivy, she was first introduced to the world of Top Siders, khakis, and LL Bean Norwegian sweaters but persisted in wearing her mother's hand me downs of fine knit skirts and dresses bought in Portugal, boiled wool jackets from Austria, Scottish cashmere, and French scarves because the whole preppy thing seemed so alien and just not her.

Post MBA, she eschewed business suits whenever possible in favor of dresses, usually silk, paired with cardigans that could pass as jackets and had to go out of her way to find these items that were work appropriate. Scarves remained a staple accessory, together with leather belts and Ferragamos she would wear for years by keeping them in good repair.

One day she perused the Brooks Brothers site and discovered its collaboration with Zac Posen, a master at injecting prep sensibility with a cosmopolitan flair. This she could identify with! She is now hooked and single handedly trying to keep BB alive through the pandemic.

Wasps are not irish catholic. Literally a contradiction in terms

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Larla thought about seeking an Executive Husband on itsjustlunch.com, a dating website she discovered while flying business class on a Delta flight to Hartsfield International. Ultimately though, she decided to forego the spouse and work on her career.

Larla can trace her ancestry well back into the fifteenth century owing to the indefatigable work decades ago of a second cousin twice removed who became a stalwart of the DAR. Despite her ancestral WASP bona fides, Larla never identified with that tribe owing to her cosmopolitan background living variously in Paris and third world outposts growing up and the strong strain of Irish Catholicism in her family culture.

When she landed from overseas at her Ivy, she was first introduced to the world of Top Siders, khakis, and LL Bean Norwegian sweaters but persisted in wearing her mother's hand me downs of fine knit skirts and dresses bought in Portugal, boiled wool jackets from Austria, Scottish cashmere, and French scarves because the whole preppy thing seemed so alien and just not her.

Post MBA, she eschewed business suits whenever possible in favor of dresses, usually silk, paired with cardigans that could pass as jackets and had to go out of her way to find these items that were work appropriate. Scarves remained a staple accessory, together with leather belts and Ferragamos she would wear for years by keeping them in good repair.

One day she perused the Brooks Brothers site and discovered its collaboration with Zac Posen, a master at injecting prep sensibility with a cosmopolitan flair. This she could identify with! She is now hooked and single handedly trying to keep BB alive through the pandemic.

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Larla thought about seeking an Executive Husband on itsjustlunch.com, a dating website she discovered while flying business class on a Delta flight to Hartsfield International. Ultimately though, she decided to forego the spouse and work on her career.

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Loro Piana

Bonobos

Jos. A. Banks

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My name is Larlo and I’m a man whose mother got me a subscription to Trunk Club last Christmas because she mistook me for a hobo when I flew in from DC late one evening and forgot the door security code. Don’t tell my drinking buddies that. I’m an investment banker at a shop in Tyson’s and graduated from SMU a few years back; originally, I’m from Richmond. I’m a member of The Capitol Club, The Capital Club, and have a mean golf game. I down a few beers with the guys while we play at Chevy or Congressional (Trip’s dad is a member and hooks us up). Also, don’t tell my mom this, but the clothes Derek, my Trunk Club guy, picked out for me at Nordstrom have definitely attracted more female attention my way. I met a great gal because she loved some random brand I was wearing. Great work, Derek; you’re hundo p a real homie.


My name is Larla and I’m a diplomat’s kid, so I speak several languages and lived all over. Living all over Europe definitely influenced my fashion sense, so I like to mix and match different brands and style. That’s why I like Nordstrom. I went to NCS for high school and then Columbia, and now, I’m a writer for The New Yorker. My boyfriend is a hockey player and we live in Arlington, VA. I love working out, but don’t really like the athletic selection at Nordstrom. Don’t tell them that. I love watching Real Housewives — Potomac is my jam — and Larlo and I are in the same running club; Derek introduced us prior to that. I’m really into reading about the history of Washington, DC right now and have mostly neutral opinions on the DC “food scene.”

Anonymous wrote:Here's the Cranky Pants thread. A classic from 2009.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/74707.page

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Anonymous wrote:Draper James should be a fun one....

Larla was an artsy, quirky girl at Field, but once she got to college, she decided to shed that aspect of her personality. She wanted a handsome boyfriend, a group of friends, and a to do so, she decided to join a sorority at Elon/U South Carolina/ECU. She obsessed over Total Frat/Sorority Move the summer before freshman year and watched enough Reese Witherspoon movies to make her Tinder bio "just a little whiskey in a tea cup; Southern belle, but DC-adjacent; [sorority letters]." She graduated from college with an arts minor, a Vice President position in her mid-tier sorority, and joined Deloitte Consulting in the federal division, because her father is an Executive there.

Larla has low self-esteem, but is actively working on it through positive affirmations. She's made a lot of progress, and is reverting back to the artsy girl she once was. She no longer hides her passions or who she is, but she does still enjoys Lilly Pulitzer as a work of extremely abstract art. Plus, selling her old sorority lewks on Poshmark left her with LOTS of pocket money!

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Larla fastidiously maintains her collection of Breyer horses, hoping that one day she will be able to pass them on to her daughters Ainsley and Elspeth.

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