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Undeterred by the threat of Humphreville's casual contempt, nearly a million buyers have made The Official Preppy Handbook a number-one best seller--driven perhaps by a fear of greater contempt were they to wear their background like a heart upon a non-monogrammed sleave...
Plaid skirts pose a special problem because most men can hardly fail to recognize their uniform ugliness. They are part of the backlash to feminism that brings us Brooke Shields' close encounters with Calvin Klein. Thus does plaid-clad "Bunny" Birnbach promote her success with The Preppy Handbook by claiming to "get a wonderful frisson from dressing preppy while cherishing liberal attitudes and social conciousness...
This semester, an Assembly-prepared handbook on student rights languishes for lack of funds to print it, and a planned University-wide concert was cancelled, because there is no money to back it. Even a proposed conference of undergraduate organizations to exchange ideas on fundraising, publicity and dealing with the administration had to be scrapped...
...Handbook," which Birnbach said, is "still number one nationally on paperback charts," was released in November 1980, 900,000 copies ago, and is now in its fourteenth printing...
Although the "handbook" is a satirical attack at the preppy lifestyle. Birnbach said she is really "pro-preppy." She feels, however, that the preppies "have to laugh at themselves...