Do You Like This Preppy Look ?

#16
I have to confess that I like it! Not everyday or anything, but I think the shoulder sweater can look really cute with some dresses. I'm also ok with the golf/tennis pro look for guys. I must be a dork, but I love preppy stuff. Just not all the time and not as the ONLY style you ever wear.
 
#17
This is how I grew up and pretty much how I, and my family, still live.
And yes, psueb, it might very well be considered frumpy. So be it.

I consider it classic and far more frugal than the fashion of the moment. But I can appreciate high style on others.
 
#19
pseub said:
I've seen a few cute, young, blonde girls who can work it pretty well, but on most people it just comes off as frumpy.
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really? Like Amanda said, it's pretty much always in, in the South..
In fact, walking into the local Lily Pulitzer boutique w/ him last week is what made him tell me he wanted to see me in it. The mannequins looked really cute, tight tropical print capris w/ a fitted polo and sweaters hanging on their shoudlers. . .
I wouldn't define it as high style at all, but not frumpy.
 
#21
Hey, I love a good polo shirt. And I love classic looks (have lots of Talbots in my closet). I guess it depends on how you define "preppy". When I think of "preppy" I think of a girl I saw last weekend in madras shorts, a white polo shirt, and a pink cotton cable sweater tied over her shoulders. She was adorable, but I think I'd look ridiculous in something like that. I remember the Preppy Handbook from the 80's. I had a friend at that time who was a bona fide Prep (she'd gone to boarding school and had the pink and green combo's and little whale prints).
 
#24
coco-nut said:
This is how I grew up and pretty much how I, and my family, still live.
And yes, psueb, it might very well be considered frumpy. So be it.

I consider it classic and far more frugal than the fashion of the moment. But I can appreciate high style on others.
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See the thing is, I usually think it looks great on other people and frumpy on me. :P I work with a woman who lives in Ralph Lauren (cable sweaters, chinos, oxford shirts) and she looks great all the time.
 
#26
I don't. Perhaps for golfing, because I like to dress for the occasion, but I don't golf. hehe I am however taking up tennis, and I fully intend to break out the hot little white skirt and a polo for that. :smile:
 
#27
I have to tell you I really hate it when men and women tie sweaters around their necks. It looks absolutely ridiculous IMO. I see this a lot when I'm in CT and it drives me nuts. The people I see doing this seem so pompous. They need a smack.:smash:
 
#28
Now here's how to really rock the preppy look:

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#29
pseub said:
Hey, I love a good polo shirt. And I love classic looks (have lots of Talbots in my closet). I guess it depends on how you define "preppy". When I think of "preppy" I think of a girl I saw last weekend in madras shorts, a white polo shirt, and a pink cotton cable sweater tied over her shoulders. She was adorable, but I think I'd look ridiculous in something like that. I remember the Preppy Handbook from the 80's. I had a friend at that time who was a bona fide Prep (she'd gone to boarding school and had the pink and green combo's and little whale prints).
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That's the kind of look that I think of too for "preppy" and I've always liked it. Talbots, pearls, lacoste shirts, brooks brothers oxfords, cable sweaters, etc. I was in high school and college during the late 80'/early 90's when this was all the rage. I loved that handbook! I had friends too that were literal preps. That could get a little annoying, but they did look cute imo. (I don't think my family was loaded enough to qualify, hehe)

Nowadays, I just think it's a cute look, but is best varied w/ other styles (I'd get totally bored if I dressed that way everyday!)
 
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