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Anonymous wrote:I’m a DC native (Georgetown hospital), third generation Green Book, etc, but left DC years ago. This post was somewhat amusing for the inaccuracies and blatant materialism. One of the hallmarks of true old DC class was that people didn’t care a whit for brands. It was much more fun back then (I’m mid-30s so it was actually even more fun when my mom was growing up).

PP, can you talk more about your experience? It'd be interesting to compare against the pages of assumptions made so far

Sorry, just saw this - what do you want to know?

What would be your list of Washington prep?
NCS/St.A?
What else?

No these schools are full of the spawn of the DC Tech wannabe-bro scene. No longer preppy.

Anonymous wrote:This thread sounds like what midwestern people think Georgetown WASPs are like. I say this as someone who grew up in the midwest.

Came here to say the same!

Anonymous wrote:In Town
Christ Church, St Johns, St Columbas or St Albans Church
Beauvoir, NPS or St Patricks
Shippins, now Simpsons
NCS/STA
Sulgrave, Met Club and CCC
Georgetown, Wesley Heights, Spring Valley or Chevy Chase Village
Bethany or Nantucket, never OC.

This is it. This is my cousins, who are the epitome of DC prep. Add married in the National Cathedral to the list. And Maine can be on the second home list.

I am about 50% of the way there. I went to Sidwell which was aggressively unpreppy in my day.

There should be a warning about this type of culture for people who move to this area. These people are all over our neighborhood and it’s awful.

Have to have a son named Chad, Brad, Thad, Tad, Chip, Tripp, or Skip. Daughter has to be named Rebecca.

^"Lisa Birnbach"--sorry autocorrect)

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is just a ton of non-preppy people pretending to be experts lol

I know, I'm lmao. It's a bunch of Washingtonians trying to act like DC is NYC. So bizarre.

Also I love the posts about "True preps are born at Columbia Women's Hospital." That...doesn't exist anymore!

Considering "true preps" haven't existed since the early 90s it rings pretty true.

"Preppy" was a specific fad that began in the 80s. There have been snooty upper class young people since the beginning of time, but "preppy" was a particular subculture that no longer exists. VT bros wearing Southern Tide and downing white claws in Clarendon aren't "preppy," they've got similarities but they're their own subculture.

Pretty accurate, but there was a recent WSJ article about a preppy comeback. For the youngsters on this forum, Lisa Born ach wrote a book in the 80s -"The Preppy Handbook" + another decades later " True Prep". The first is out of print and sells for hundreds of dollars online. I have both books. All of us who worked on Capitol Hill bought copies and emulated the styles.

I have preppy friends still in Georgetown. Their kids have their own credit cards and take friends to places like Millies, wear preppy clothes and summer in Nantucket (Repub.) or MV (Dem)depending on their political party. They have horses, sailboats ( no motors please), play tennis, golf, and played FH or lax in school and many did crew.

No one mentioned blonde hair...pretty important for preppy women. Expensive (but not obvi) jewelry.

Don’t be mad you don’t have what is being described

Anonymous wrote:Uber Preppy:
-Kids in US boarding school-MA/CT: Deerfield, Choate, Andover etc
-Summers: ACK or Hamptons
-Spring break: Palm beach, St. Barths or Bahamas
-Winter or Spring Break: Jackson Hole, Aspen, Deer Valley
-Lives in Foxhall, Spring Valley, GT etc
-Member of CCC
-1 golden doodle or lab and a french bulldog
-Boatload of Jcrew, Golden Goose and D loves loveshackfancy
-Mrs. Simpsons
- 3 Cars: Family SUV, Moms Range Rover, Dad's Porsche

This post is from 2014.

Try-hard.

Uber Preppy:
-Kids in US boarding school-MA/CT: Deerfield, Choate, Andover etc
-Summers: ACK or Hamptons
-Spring break: Palm beach, St. Barths or Bahamas
-Winter or Spring Break: Jackson Hole, Aspen, Deer Valley
-Lives in Foxhall, Spring Valley, GT etc
-Member of CCC
-1 golden doodle or lab and a french bulldog
-Boatload of Jcrew, Golden Goose and D loves loveshackfancy
-Mrs. Simpsons
- 3 Cars: Family SUV, Moms Range Rover, Dad's Porsche

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a DC native (Georgetown hospital), third generation Green Book, etc, but left DC years ago. This post was somewhat amusing for the inaccuracies and blatant materialism. One of the hallmarks of true old DC class was that people didn’t care a whit for brands. It was much more fun back then (I’m mid-30s so it was actually even more fun when my mom was growing up).

PP, can you talk more about your experience? It'd be interesting to compare against the pages of assumptions made so far

Sorry, just saw this - what do you want to know?

What would be your list of Washington prep?
NCS/St.A?
What else?

Clearly a troll since she never responded.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a DC native (Georgetown hospital), third generation Green Book, etc, but left DC years ago. This post was somewhat amusing for the inaccuracies and blatant materialism. One of the hallmarks of true old DC class was that people didn’t care a whit for brands. It was much more fun back then (I’m mid-30s so it was actually even more fun when my mom was growing up).

PP, can you talk more about your experience? It'd be interesting to compare against the pages of assumptions made so far

Sorry, just saw this - what do you want to know?

What would be your list of Washington prep?
NCS/St.A?
What else?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a DC native (Georgetown hospital), third generation Green Book, etc, but left DC years ago. This post was somewhat amusing for the inaccuracies and blatant materialism. One of the hallmarks of true old DC class was that people didn’t care a whit for brands. It was much more fun back then (I’m mid-30s so it was actually even more fun when my mom was growing up).

PP, can you talk more about your experience? It'd be interesting to compare against the pages of assumptions made so far

Sorry, just saw this - what do you want to know?

What were some of the inaccuracies you saw on this thread and how do they compare to the real deal, in your experience?