When I was an elementary school child, my brother told me that if I wanted to be cool, I needed to be “preppy.” Not really knowing what that actually meant back then, he decided to urge my mother to get my first purple sweater vest at age nine. It was all downhill from there. I graduated from that sweater vest and moved on to Abercrombie and Fitch. It makes me cringe to actually admit that when I’d really like to replace that F with a B. Let’s be real – those scandals that we’ve been reading in the papers for the last few years couldn’t have all been false allegations. Just sayin’
The term prep, however, actually stems from those fancy private colleges on the East…not sweater vests. Oh it all makes sense now! Often times it’s the designers that determine the definition of prep, not the clothing items themselves. Brooks Brothers has decided to produce a new line specifically for 15 private universities with the preppiest students. The line will then be sold in bookstores, online, and nationwide retailers.
Can you guess which universities have accumulated the preppiest bunch?
1. Harvard
2. Princeton
3. Stanford
4. Cornell
5. Georgetown
6. Vanderbilt
7. Boston College
8. Notre Dame
9. The U.S. Naval Academy
10. Auburn
11. University of Virginia
12. New York University
13. Ohio State University
14. Universities of Alabama
15. University of Georgia
