Where Have All the Preppies Gone? with Avery Trufelman
You're Wrong About
The Preppy Look in College
F-leisure invented by Callen and Hawkely. Oxford button down shirt started as something that polo players in England would wear to like keep their collars from flopping up while they rode horses. A lot of these clothes were adapted and manufactured by Brooks Brothers. On Princeton, we're wearing this sort of new sporty look. Magazines were writing about it. It was known as this thing like oh, the style on the campus of Princeton was very popular in like the 1930s.
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