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Friday Fun of the Christmas Kind
Hello-Hello and welcome to an almost-weekend here at The Prepatorium. We wanted to make our Friday Fun post Christmas-related this week, so we are taking a look at one of the season’s most delightful...
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A Spot of Irish Prep
Hello-Hello, happy bright new week to you! Today’s post is brief, touching on a topic receiving scant coverage in this space: Irish preppy style. The lack of posts on the topic is really rather...
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Avoiding Little Miss Crankypants
Hello-Hello, welcome to a Wednesday. We are now a week away from Christmas and the usual frenzy seems to be gathering steam. Yesterday there was a shortage of parking places at the local Post Office; I...
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Holidays on Ice
Hello-Hello and welcome to our wacky week. Why wacky? Because we’ve had another storm here in The Great Midwest; many family members and friends are without power. Parties have been canceled,...
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About That Hacking Jacket
Hello-Hello, and belated greetings of the New Year to all of our treasured readers. Today we have a look at a “timeless preppy office look” in a Forbes Style File piece. The characteristics of a...
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There’s No Business Like Snow Business
Heavens to Betsy, it seems your trusty scribe is doing yet. another. weather. post. Hopefully this won’t prove overly irritating, it really has been top of mind for many of us. For days. Seeing how...
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The Preppiest States in America & Your Very Own Downton Abbey
Hello-Hello, welcome to the end of what feels like a very long week. And that comes from someone who wasn’t even tasked with looking after children for whom Christmas vacation went on…and on.. and on!...
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That J-Law Dress Meme & A Dress Has A Birthday Party
Hello-Hello, and happy Monday to you. Today we have a mixed bag of items to share. Our first topic involves a meme that exploded on the interwebs last night and continued to grow today. For those not...
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About That Target Security Breach & Sarah Jessica Parker’s Shoe Collection
Hello-Hello, and welcome to a Friday Fun post. Mostly fun, I should say. In light of the ever-growing data breach at Target it seems almost a public service to include a bit of news updating that...
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Lilly Pulitzer Estate Auction Slated for February
Hello-Hello, today our post is brief, we are hoping to enjoy a bit of the holiday ourselves. We thought some of you would be interested in the upcoming Lilly Pulitzer Estate Auction. First we’ll update...
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The Consort Sings The Praises of Red Plaid
Hello-hello, all. The Consort here gliding effortlessly mikeside to confuse you while The (very lovely and extremely talented) Princess warms her tootsies by the fire. We are in the grips of some...
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Team USA Opening Ceremony Uniforms Unveiled & Norway’s Curling Team Uniforms...
Hello-Hello and Happy Friday from Ice Station Prep, where 0° is starting to look positively tropical. WLNS-TV We hope it’s more temperate in your corner of the globe this morning. Today we take look at...
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Grammys Red Carpet & The Baby Gap + Paddington Bear Collection
Oh those Grammy Awards. It’s always interesting to see how the red carpet styles are received by those in, and out of the fashion industry. To set the tone, a portion of Booth Moore’s story for the Los...
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Updates: Stephen Bonnano Closure, Lilly Pulitzer Estate Auction
Hello-Hello, and happy Wednesday. We had hoped that by this morning things would be getting back to normal for all of our friends in the south and southeast after yesterday’s ice and snow storms. For...
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Friday Fun: Designer Football, A Puppy, & A TV Dinner
Hello-Hello, and happy almost-weekend. Today we have a spot of Friday Fun related to The Big Game. It involves…haute couture football helmets! This one is by Nicole Miller. Courtesy Photo via WWD.com...
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Dreaming of Spring
Hello-Hello, and happy new week to you. In an effort to cease my relentless whining occasional mention (cough-cough) of the ever-so-nasty winter weather, I thought a look at some spring styles might...
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Letters from Sochi
Hello-Hello, happy Thursday to you. Hopefully all is well in your corner of the globe, and you have either dug out from the most recent snow, or managed to keep yourself from melting in those places...
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The Opening Ceremony Runway
Hello-Hello, and welcome to a Monday. Did you watch any of the Olympic activities over the weekend? Here at the Prepatorium more than a few hours were spent parked in front of the television. Friday...
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H&M’s Preppy Push & The Latest on That Gwyneth/Graydon Spat
Hello-hello, what a wild week it has been already. The Olympics have been amazing to watch, but we’ll save most of that for our Friday Fun. (Where else can we talk about the pants being worn by the...
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An Especially Tasty Valentine’s Day
Hello-Hello, and happy almost-weekend to everyone. Today we have some brief Friday Fun on tap, beginning with a look at something very near and dear to our hearts here at the Prepatorium: chocolate. On...
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