As a Black student at a boarding school, I felt locked out of the world of pleated skirts and polo shirts. Now, it's a different story.

Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world.. Lisa Birnbach has seen this all before. The author of The Official Preppy Handbook, which went old-world viral ...

Prep, Avery Trufelman observes in her seven-part podcast American Ivy, has become so ubiquitous that some of its central features no longer read as preppy at all.The khakis and Oxford shirts that ...

But as the world opened up, what we wore changed—not just around the house, but also in our semi-normal day-to-day. It started slowly, with the tennis skirt: a preppy staple, worn both to play ...

Preppy girls layer, too — and this is the piece that will carry your look seamlessly from summer storms to crisp fall mornings. Get it now, thank yourself later. GAP $119.99 $48.00 ...

The preppy Princeton murder suspect accused of fratricide ripped out his little brother's eyeball after beating and slashing him to death in the family's luxury apartment Saturday night — and ...

For lack of a better term, let's call it preppy-à-porter. The latest Pali property - the 17-year-old Los Angeles-based chain's 22nd - opened last month in Laguna Beach, and while it's technically ...

J.Crew. As far as polished and preppy looks go, you can’t go wrong with a cashmere tee like this relaxed piece from J.Crew. It has a shorter length that’ll still tuck well into high-waist ...

The quirky Los Angeles-based hotel chain took an old roadside motel off the Coast Highway and turned it into its latest preppy-meets-Parisian bed-and-breakfast-style boutique By Benjamin Svetkey ...

I speak, of course, of the world of prep. In 1980, Lisa Birnbach and a host of other writers chronicled her lifestyle in a book. In "The Official Preppy Handbook," Birnbach offered a tongue-in-cheek ...

As a Black student at a boarding school, I felt locked out of the world of pleated skirts and polo shirts. Now, it’s a different story. From 2003 to 2006, there was a skirt. The Skirt had a ...