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Originally Posted by MysticCat
I don't think of nautical and preppy as the same thing at all. Preppy, especially New England preppy may incorporate nautical elements, but there is a difference.
No, I think part of the problem is that, as has been noted, preppy can mean what I'll call "true preppy" -- as in prep school and those for whom prep school is the norm -- and it can also mean what designers label a "preppy style", like what you see in lots of the pictures posted in this thread. That preppy style has taken on a life of its own, and like I've said, often that style doesn't reflect what I've called true preppy.
True preppy is marked by a conservatism, a we've-always-done-it-this-way-because-this-is-how-it's-done attitude. I'll give you an example:
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No, I do get that marketed "preppy" and prep-school/old money are different. But as "traditional" weddings are particularly, well, traditional, I wouldn't be able to tell the difference between a true preppy wedding and a regular wedding. I'm sure there are all sorts of rules I don't know anything about and that they're all unwritten and mostly unspoken and if you have to ask you'll never know
Going to a Catholic school, we got called preppy just because we were the closest thing to a prep school around and we cost money, even though not everyone there was well off.
Like I said, I suspect I just don't 'get' it.