Northern Preppy vs. Southern Preppy

[KillarneyRose]

The difference between Northern Preppy and Southern Preppy was mentioned in the "Popped Collars" thread. I am familiar with the Northern Preppy look, but I'm not familiar with the Southern Preppy look. Could someone in the know please compare and contrast the two for me?

Thanks!

[Rudey]

Well-to-do Southerners send their children to Northern schools. Those folks tend to wear polo shirts and loafers and think they're living the good life. I, personally, think the main difference is that in the North we don't wear overalls but Southern preppy folk iron their overalls.

-Rudey
--Was that a joke? Perhaps not but we'll never know

[Tucker Carlson]

Originally Posted by Rudey

Well-to-do Southerners send their children to Northern schools.
-Rudey

actually well to do southerners send their kids to MUS, McCallie, Baylor, GPS, Hutchison, Harpreth Hall, and MBA or other private/boarding schools in the south

[Rudey]

Originally Posted by Tucker Carlson

actually well to do southerners send their kids to MUS, McCallie, Baylor, GPS, Hutchison, Harpreth Hall, and MBA or other private/boarding schools in the south

Obviously you're not well to do then

-Rudey

[mrblonde]

Northern preppy: Pink polo shirt/no pocket khakis/boat shoes (no socks)

Southern preppy: Light blue/yellow Izod shirt/cargo short khakis/sandals



And overalls. All day, every day

[Tucker Carlson]

Originally Posted by mrblonde

Northern preppy: Pink polo shirt/no pocket khakis/boat shoes (no socks)

Southern preppy: Light blue/yellow Izod shirt/cargo short khakis/sandals



And overalls. All day, every day

actually you would never see cargo shorts on a southen preppy person, nice try though. and didnt you learn anything in rushing FIJI, there are only certain times you can display the name or letters of your fraternity in public. obviously you werent hazed enough to learn it. my roomate my freshman year was a fiji pledge and he left his manual in the room one day and i decided to read through it. very nice stuff in there

[Tom Earp]

Is this How All Southern Boys Dress?

If so, do get over it!

[CarolinaCutie]

Originally posted by Rudey
Well-to-do Southerners send their children to Northern schools.

What makes you think that? That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. Well-to-do Southerners tend to go to prestigious SOUTHERN schools. I would also say that many of the richer Southerners have less of a bias against public schools... UGA, Auburn, Carolina, etc. You'll see lots of Southern money children there.

[HBADPi]

I dont know about the south but at my MA prep school abercrombie and jcrew were the staple stores everyone who was someone shopped. So yeah lots of khakis and polo shirts.

[PhiPsiRuss]

Originally posted by CarolinaCutie
That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.

Not really. You'll see a lot more of the South's best and brightest in college up North than you might think. If you can afford it, and can get in, you'll probably go to Yale rather than a Southern school, especially a state school.

[dgfromtx]

Originally posted by mrblonde
Northern preppy: Pink polo shirt/no pocket khakis/boat shoes (no socks)

Southern preppy: Light blue/yellow Izod shirt/cargo short khakis/sandals



And overalls. All day, every day

izod? lol. well, if i were in Mississippi i'd say that's a definite match (i say that b/c @ the cotton bowl this is ALL i saw.)

in texas for the most part, guys wear kenneth cole and polo (dont forget to roll the sleeves!)....put that with a pair of 'trendy' denim jeans and some nice shoes, and you have your 'typical' texas preppy boy.

no popped collars here in full force yet. i see a few, and i cringe and hope they will fade away very fast.


(overalls only @ a&m... haha)

edit: i forgot abercrombie.

[KillarneyRose]

Originally posted by CarolinaCutie
I would also say that many of the richer Southerners have less of a bias against public schools... UGA, Auburn, Carolina, etc. You'll see lots of Southern money children there.

That is so interesting that you'd say that, and you're absolutely right once I think about it. My bio sister went to a "verrrrrrry important prep school" ( ) in our native Pennsylvania and the kids from her graduating class who went to places like Penn State, Maryland or the inexplicably popular University of New Hampshire were considered by most parties to be academic has-beens. Even though all of those places are actually pretty good schools.

The glaring exception would be UVA, though. Maybe because it's in the south? Or because it's so darn hard to get into?

[HBADPi]

Originally posted by KillarneyRose
That is so interesting that you'd say that, and you're absolutely right once I think about it. My bio sister went to a "verrrrrrry important prep school" ( ) in our native Pennsylvania and the kids from her graduating class who went to places like Penn State, Maryland or the inexplicably popular University of New Hampshire were considered by most parties to be academic has-beens. Even though all of those places are actually pretty good schools.

The glaring exception would be UVA, though. Maybe because it's in the south? Or because it's so darn hard to get into?

Don't forget the University Of Vermont, I saw a lot of classmates go there but they were also the ones with the money and not the grades...not saying that this is the case everywhere

[CarolinaCutie]

Originally posted by PhiPsiRuss
Not really. You'll see a lot more of the South's best and brightest in college up North than you might think. If you can afford it, and can get in, you'll probably go to Yale rather than a Southern school, especially a state school.

Just because they are the BEST and the BRIGHTEST, and can afford to go to Yale, doesn't make them really Southern. There's rich people in the South that aren't Southern by attitude or behavior.

I'm thinking of the 5th generations of Ole Miss or Auburn students...

[Rudey]

Originally posted by CarolinaCutie
What makes you think that? That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. Well-to-do Southerners tend to go to prestigious SOUTHERN schools. I would also say that many of the richer Southerners have less of a bias against public schools... UGA, Auburn, Carolina, etc. You'll see lots of Southern money children there.

A) There are no "prestigious" Southern schools.

B) I wasn't just talking about families with money. You can go to Hofstra university out on Long Island in NY. Lots of kids with money...none of that mattered to anyone.

C) And I guess Bush was an exception.

D) Izod is sold in Sears. Do people accessorize that with NASCAR hats?

-Rudey