Ladies, locate your tennis skirts. Gents, dig up those Nantucket red pants. The New York Times and The Awl have called it: Preppie chic is back. We’ve seen this coming since Vampire Weekend hit the indie big-time back in 2007 and, frankly, have been trying the head it off at the pass ever since. But sometimes, when you can’t beat a trend, you just have to revel in it. So, in celebration of all things square and Country Club-approved, we have created a handy guide to the top 40 (get it?) most culturally relevant preppies. Let us know who your favorite popped collar-wearing Young Republican (or, as it turns out, Democrat) is in the comments.
1. Zack “Preppie” Morris (Mark-Paul Gosselaar), Saved by the Bell
2. Vampire Weekend
3. The Heathers, Heathers
4. Robert Chambers, “The Preppie Killer”
5. Carlton Banks (Alfonso Ribeiro), The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
6. Prince William and Prince Harry
7. Tucker Carlson
8. Angela Bower (Judith Light), Who’s the Boss?
Comments (10)
Frederick Castleberry of http://www.unabashedlyprep.com
Hello, Clinton Kelly from What Not to Wear?
Also, every resident of Arlington, VA and the NW quarter of Washington, DC.
Patrick Bateman and Gordon Gecko were Yuppies.
more prep than you can pop a collar at:
–Jackie O.
–James Bond
–Audrey Hepburn
–Richie Cunningham from “Happy Days”
–90% of the student body from my university
Gordon Gekko: “Yeah, not bad for a City College boy. I bought my way in, now all these Ivy league schmucks are sucking my kneecaps.”
Did you even watch the movie?
lovely list! :)
Gordon Gekko definitely not a preppy. Tom Ripley (a poseur) was not one either, he just dressed like one. It was his method to become someone else.
Forgetting Jackie Kennedy is just heartless.
You forgot the great preppy artist, Tina Barney.
Tory Burch is not a preppy. Her ex-husband is. She just likes to dress like one from the 1970′s.
Barack Obama certainly qualifies, as he went to Punahou School.
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Ryan O’Neal was the preppie…Ali MacGraw WASN’T..that was the point…
I think this list should be either real people or just characters- not a mixture of both.
You need to include:
- Jackie O
- Katharine Hepburn
- Grace Kelly
- Babe Paley
- C.Z. Guest
- Princess Diana
- Julia Child
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