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Preppy: Cultivating Ivy Style
The authoritative fashion history of the roots, growth, and offshoots of the quintessentially American preppy style. Preppy offers the first definitive and in-depth volume on preppy fashion, exploring its evolution from its pragmatic origins and presence on elite Eastern campuses in America to its profound influence internationally and metamorphosis on the runway. For the...more
Hardcover, 170 pages
Published
October 4th 2011
by Rizzoli
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More of a holistic look at the evolution of 'preppy' style and fashion from it's roots on the playing fields of upper crust English society and northeastern ivy league college and prep school campuses at the beginning of last century to the pan-cultural style it's become today than the best-selling Official Preppy Handbook by Lisa Birnbach or its less successful sequel from 2010, True Prep. While it's focus is solely the fashion aspect of preppiness, it comes off feeling more successful than Tru...more
It was a very interesting and enlightening book. It was fun to find out about where some things originate from. It's definitely one of those books that you can pull facts out of to impress people with later.
The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars was because it did get slightly dull at times.
The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars was because it did get slightly dull at times.
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