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...their desks. Each day they recite pledges of allegiance to both flags, and to the Bible. They all wear an eye-catching school uniform of red, white and blue; for men (including the school's principal), blue pants, red shirts and flag-studded blue neckties; for women, plaid jumpers or blue skirts and vests with white blouses. Irvington's rules not only bar cheating, swearing and drugs, but also "rock or country music, dancing and Hollywood movies." Says Principal Fred Corrie...
...WORST "fashion statement' is the plaid skirt, which asserts the wearer's class superiority and gender inferiority. Preppie culture has always been patriarchal. Thorstein Veblen, who coined the phrase "conspicuous consumption" at the turn of the century, contended that the leisure class woman's function was to display-her male keeper's wealth. "The high heel, the skirt...and the general disregard of the wearer's comfort which is an obvious feature of all civilized women's apparel" suggested to Veblen that "the woman is still in theory the economic dependent of the man." Despite changes since Veblen...
...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...
...tears. This was the moment each Ingenue had been working for all year. This was the whole glorious reason for the bake sales, the car washes, the raffles. She glanced with a proprietary smile at Jed in his rented white dinner jacket. He wore a ruffled shirt, and a plaid cummerbund and bow tie. Across his chest was the purple sash that identified him as an Ingenue Escort. He was grinning at their friends, who were applauding as she and he descended the steps to Moon River, played by the dance - band on the stage...
Dressed as one might expect to find her--in a prep-plaid shirt, green sweater, blue blazer, penny loafers, and Nantucket accessories--Lisa Birnbach, editor and coauthor of "The Official Preppy Handbook" came to the Coop yesterday to sign copies of her book...