Home > Preppy
Preppy is a term in the popular vocabulary, traditionally used to describe the characteristics of patrician, White, Anglo-Saxon Protestants (usually with some personal or familial connection to New England; e.g. WASP) who attend or attended major private, secondary preparatory schools. These characteristics include particular subcultural speech, vocabulary, accent, dress, mannerisms, etiquette, and general way of being. Lisa Birnbach 's 1980 Official Preppy Handbook is a good, albeit tongue-in-cheek, "guide" to the preppy subculture. Paul Fussell's book Status: A Guide to the American Class System discusses the sociological implications of the preppy subculture.In recent years, the term has come to describe those who affect some popular, bourgeois physical manifestation of the preppy subculture. In many cases, this usage pertains merely to a person's dress, and not their geographical location, upbringing, or other traditionally "preppy" characteristic. In such cases, those described as "preppy" are not, in fact, preppies.
The term is similar in formation to hippie or yuppie, and had great currency in the 1970s and 1980s.
1 Some notable preparatory schools:
- The Agnes Irwin School ( Rosemount, Pennsylvania )
- The Bryn Mawr School ( Baltimore, Maryland)
- The Cate School ( Carpinteria, CaliforniaCarpinteria is a city located in Santa Barbara County, California. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 14,194. The city is famed for being home of the Santa Claus lane, named after a giant Santa Claus bust that overlooks the coastal)
- The Chapin School ( New York, New York)
- Charlotte Country Day School ( Charlotte, North CarolinaFor other places or people named Charlotte, see Charlotte (disambiguation). One of the fastest-growing and most prosperous American metropolises, the Queen City is the world's second biggest banking center. Charlotte located near the border of North Carol)
- Choate Rosemary HallChoate Rosemary Hall is a prep school in Wallingford, Connecticut. It is a four year boarding and day school with approximately 850 students and 120 faculty members. Kennedy graduated from Choate. History In 1890, the prominent Choate family started the R ( Wallingford, ConnecticutWallingford is a town located in New Haven County, Connecticut. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 43,026. History Wallingford was the birthplace of singer Morton Downey and of Georgia governor Lyman Hall. Geography According to the)
- Collegiate School ( New York, New York)
- The Dalton SchoolThe Dalton School originally called the Children's University School, is a school in New York City. It was founded by Helen Parkhurst in 1919. The school originally (and to some extent still does) operate according to Parkhurst's Dalton Plan which is also ( New York, New York)
- Dana Hall School ( Wellesley, Massachusetts)
- Deerfield Academy ( Deerfield, Massachusetts)
- The Episcopal Academy ( Merion, Pennsylvania)
- Episcopal High School ( Alexandria, Virginia)
- Foxcroft School ( Middlesburg, Virginia )
- The Gilman School ( Baltimore, Maryland)
- Groton School ( Groton, Massachusetts)
- Hawken School ( Gates Mill, Ohio )
- The Hockaday School ( Dallas, Texas)
- The Hotchkiss School ( Lakeville, Connecticut )
- The Latin School of Chicago ( Chicago, Illinois)
- Lawrence Academy at Groton ( Groton, Massachusetts)
- The Lawrenceville School ( Lawrenceville, New Jersey)
- The Lovett School ( Atlanta, Georgia)
- The Madeira School ( Greenway, Virginia )
- Mary Institute Country Day School ( St. Louis, Missouri)
- Middlesex School ( Concord, Massachusetts)
- Milton Academy ( Milton, Massachusetts)
- Miss Porter's School ( Farmington, Connecticut)
- The Pembroke Hill School ( Kansas City, Missouri)
- Phillips Academy ( Andover, Massachusetts)
- Phillips Exeter Academy ( Exeter, New Hampshire)
- St. Mark's School of Texas ( Dallas, Texas)
- St. Paul's School ( Concord, New Hampshire)
- The Winsor School ( Boston, Massachusetts)
- Woodberry Forest School ( Woodberry Forest, Virginia )
