Hello-Hello, and welcome to a rather unusual post.
It has been more than 6 years since I started writing in this space, chronicling events on what we lovingly call the Preppy Planet. It has been beyond fun: an absolute delight and privilege. I like to think most readers enjoyed most posts; I certainly enjoyed writing them. Reading comments you were gracious enough to post was even more rewarding. There’s been lots of fashion fun and faux-pas, a snarky instance or two (cough-cough), and constant and unrelenting whining occasional complaints about those people or institutions referred to as Anti-Preps. There have also been times we stepped away from standard topics – isolated but traumatic moments for the country – when a collective hug seemed to be what we all needed most.
But lately the posts have begun to feel forced. Manufactured. Another look at LL Bean’s spring line? The umpteenth iteration of someone’s decree that “Preppy Style is Back”? It could only follow that if posts are difficult to write, reading them must be tedious for even the kindest of souls. So your fearless scribe is going on a brief hiatus. I will pop in to crow about new goodies we get in at the shop, and natter on about things that genuinely spark an idea for a post. It would mean the world if you took a nanosecond to share things you would like to see covered: ideas or topics you find appealing in a format like this. Then I’ll better know what you like reading about when I’m back.
In no way is this goodbye to the interwebs: we love our incredible customers and vendors at the Princess, we’re still Twittering and on Facebook, as well as Pinterest. And I’ll be back here; I think I just need to give my brain a spring cleaning.