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A successful sub-label in the Lauren empire, Polo peddles preppy classics to men but this was the first time the brand has created the equivalent wardrobe for its female customer.
Sirota cites the Michael J Fox sitcom Family Ties as paradigmatic: a show based on the contrast between the preppy young conservative Alex P Keaton and his gormless ex-hippie parents.
It's the brand that is many things to many people: preppy cool for some, black tie failsafe for others but at New York fashion week it was all kinds of everything as Ralph Lauren showed not one but two autumn/winter 2014 collections.
Club 21, the company which holds the licence to supply shops with Bartley's preppy , punky ready-to-wear clothes and accessories, withdrew from its partnership with the designer, and said in a statement it had decided "not to invest further".
I didn't recognise any of them, but everyone seemed insanely rich: preppy , with faces like luxury yachts, like Martha's Vineyard in the summer, Waspy and at peace with the world, practically floating through the restaurant, whereas Michael was a big, angry, coiled-spring Jewish bear of a man.
Such basics, the firm believes, have the added benefit of appealing to a wider audience than the preppy Americana sold by Gap or the faddish wares of Inditex and H&M.Although it opened its first store in 1984, Uniqlo really got going in the early 1990s, just as Japan was entering a long period of economic anaemia.
If Texas George has the twinkly charm of Bill Clinton, Jeb has something of Al Gore's goody-goody inhibition indeed, something of his father, preppy President George.
Until then, like his father, he was seen as a preppy east-coast carpetbagger: George Sr's own career in Texas was launched on the connections of Prescott Bush, a senator from Connecticut.
Often described as "preppy ", J.Crew got a big boost when Michelle Obama wore its designs in a fashion shoot for Vogue in early 2009, though net profit for its most recent quarter fell by 14% compared with a year earlier.Buying powerAmazon launched a new Price Check app in America for the Apple iPhone, just in time for the start of the Christmas shopping season.
Rummy has never hidden his disdain for Poppy, whom he regards as a flighty preppy who didn't have the brass to march into Baghdad and take down Saddam Hussein.
In fact Abercrombie is best-known for the half-naked (but preppy ) hunks that adorn its shopping bags.Ms Elauf turned to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which sued the store on her behalf.
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The word "preppy" functions primarily as an adjective , modifying nouns to describe a style, person, or item associated with a particular aesthetic, often linked to upper-class American culture. As Ludwig AI explains, it is correct and usable.
Expression frequency: Very common
