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...commented on the times with regular fashion features. A fall 1955 caption describes a photo of an attractive woman snoozing through a Sever Hall class: "If a girl intends to sleep during and after a lecture, she will look and feel more comfortable in this twin sweater with wool skirt... Contrast is recommended for government courses, harmony for social relations...
When it is not merely a bad habit acquired in childhood, the preppy look betrays a pitiable lack of self-confidence. Faith in a designer's name is a poor substitute for belief in one's force of character. An alligator shirt or a madras skirt is the equivalent of a sandwich sign advertising the wearer's shallowness and insecurity. It doesn't take a firm grasp of existential dialectics to see the intimate link between L.L. Bean and Nothingness. Preppy clothes cloak an inner void...
...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...
...beach about it. Indeed, last weekend's marriage of First Daughter Maureen Reagan, 40,-her third -to Law Clerk Dennis Revell, 28, was downright stuffy by Pacific standards. For her trip up the aisle at the Beverly Wilshire, the bride wore an off-white chiffon blouse and taffeta skirt; the groom was decked out in a midnight-blue suit. The nuptials were attended by a small group of friends and family members that included Mother Jane Wyman, 67, and Brother Michael Reagan. The bride's father, still recuperating in Washington, was unable to attend...
Sally was wearing a strapless white gown with a full ballerina-length skirt. Atop her dark blond hair was a rhinestone tiara. The carnations she had shamed Jed into sending were tied on her wrist. She was overcome with pride and had to blink back 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...