Official Preppy Handbook

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Cover of The Official Preppy Handbook
Cover of The Official Preppy Handbook

The Official Preppy Handbook is a tongue-in-cheek "reference guide" edited by Lisa Birnbach; it describes an aspect of North American culture she styles as prepdom. In addition to insights on prep school life, it illuminates many aspects of upper-class, old money WASP society. It is a seminal reference for subscribers to the preppy style. Topics range from appropriate clothing for various social events to how to choose the correct college and major. While the book addresses "preppy" life from birth to old age, its coverage is in the greatest depth for the school, college, and young-adult years; coverage becomes thinner for subsequent stages of life.

Contents

The book was first published in 1980, by Workman Publishing . It contains approximately 224 pages and was assigned ISBN 0-89480-140-6.

The following sports were recommended as preppy in Lisa Birnbach's "Preppy Handbook":

The following towns were described as members of preppy culture:

Delbarton Also published by the same author (Birnbach) the 1981 Kaleidoscope-The Official Preppy Yearbook for Hampden-Sydney College. The Heights School Mater Dei School

These Colleges and Universities were identified in the Preppy Handbook as bastions of the Old Boy Network and old money WASP culture:

The "Big Three": With associated important "preppy" clubs

The Rest:

The following schools were designated as "Out of the League" meaning that these institutions are without a large amount of preppy culture:

  • Review of The Official Preppy Handbook on CollegeConfidential.com
  • Preps A definition from urbandictionary.com
  • Author Lisa Birnbach's Bio on Greenstone Network

  1. ^ a b Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School merged in 1993 to create Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School (MICDS).
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