https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---bad-preppy-bad-preppy Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Sat, 23 May 2026 21:47:30 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---bad-preppy-bad-preppy#post-749311 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:57:36 +0000 Lisa 749311@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>As others mentioned above, this look is punky preppy and oh so fun! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---bad-preppy-bad-preppy#post-749307 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:53:27 +0000 rachylou 749307@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I love the idea of slouchy trousers, Angie! Is there a color you'd suggest?</p> <p>The footwear is an issue. I get so cold in the office, it gets painful. I can't do sheers here either. Made a special trip to the hoisery shop and struck out. Today I'm trying some heavier nylon knee-highs from Target. I don't know, they may still be too sock-like. </p> <p>...@Rae... Skeletal whales, I know right?!!!</p> <p>...@bj1111... I had a blog called "ghetto preppie." Haha. I lived 15 years in the ghetto because I'm slow to catch on... lol.</p> <p>...@ceit... silk screen... that is and would be awesome! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---bad-preppy-bad-preppy#post-749302 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:50:29 +0000 bj1111 749302@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>@rachy..."ghetto-prep"...must do!</p> <p>@ceit...i would totally buy your output. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---bad-preppy-bad-preppy#post-749298 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:47:16 +0000 Anonymous 749298@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I could draw some -- I used to to screen printing on scarves. I think that would rock. I should get back to doing that again. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---bad-preppy-bad-preppy#post-749293 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:44:06 +0000 Mochi 749293@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Skeletal whales? You mean like anorexic whales? I love how our minds come up with unique imagery. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---bad-preppy-bad-preppy#post-749289 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:39:51 +0000 rachylou 749289@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think my cousin could put these clothes on and look 100% preppy, because she is. I'm a little bit ghetto. It's true. I eat cake and butter. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---bad-preppy-bad-preppy#post-749285 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:36:23 +0000 rae 749285@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I love the twisted preppy look! Skeletal whales? Where can we find them?? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---bad-preppy-bad-preppy#post-749283 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:33:42 +0000 Angie 749283@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I love the jumper with the scarf, Rachy! Vote jeans or trousers instead of cords. In fact I vote slouchy trousers because I'm so bossy. </p> <p>How about sheer knee highs with your ballet flats instead of socks?</p> <p>We've had major debates here on what Preppy style actually is. It's a highly charged topic! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---bad-preppy-bad-preppy#post-749280 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:29:19 +0000 Mochi 749280@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>To me it doesn't read preppy. (Izod, chinos, nautical stuff or pink and green, does. And I was there in the 80s.) It reads playful and modern. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---bad-preppy-bad-preppy#post-749254 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 16:57:14 +0000 rachylou 749254@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I could try booties. There's a thought. Hmm.</p> <p>Can't do sockless. Tried that once in the office. Nearly lost my toe-sies to frostbite. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---bad-preppy-bad-preppy#post-748965 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 06:17:58 +0000 Deborah 748965@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I like it. You have brought personality and the unexpected to an "expected" style. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---bad-preppy-bad-preppy#post-748891 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 02:47:34 +0000 sarah 748891@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Rachylou, you crack me up! I think you look cute - can you go for sockless next time? Or it it too cold? Or booties? That might do the trick. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---bad-preppy-bad-preppy#post-748847 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 01:33:47 +0000 rachylou 748847@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh mi gosh. Little skeletal whales. You know y'all shouldn't have said things like this to me. I have no reason.</p> <p>I want I want I want! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---bad-preppy-bad-preppy#post-748799 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 00:23:56 +0000 Beth Ann 748799@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Embrace the punky prep look. You're doing in an artful way --- playful, but not costumey, ironic, but not rude. </p> <p>You look great! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---bad-preppy-bad-preppy#post-748779 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 23:55:44 +0000 Anonymous 748779@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Little skeletal whales would be rad. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---bad-preppy-bad-preppy#post-748774 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 23:48:44 +0000 Diana 748774@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hmm, Subversive Preppy, maybe? Whatever this style is called, I like it. It's fun and doesn't take itself too seriously. </p> <p>Also, please do something with little whales. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---bad-preppy-bad-preppy#post-748770 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 23:43:19 +0000 rachylou 748770@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I love Marc Jacobs, Anna. </p> <p>But you're right, of course. It doesn't get me out of my pickle. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---bad-preppy-bad-preppy#post-748768 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 23:40:47 +0000 rachylou 748768@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh. Mi. God. Gaylene. Skulls and tiny sailboats...</p> <p>THAT'S BRILLIANT! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---bad-preppy-bad-preppy#post-748766 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 23:38:10 +0000 annagybe 748766@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Actually it looks more hipster Marc by Marc Jacobs to me. Not sure if that's better or worse in your estimation. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---bad-preppy-bad-preppy#post-748762 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 23:35:39 +0000 Gaylene 748762@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Why mess with a good thing? Maybe we need a new style acronym on this forum-- Modern Punk Preppy-- MPP.</p> <p>Just think of the fun you could have mixing skulls and tiny sailboats. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---bad-preppy-bad-preppy#post-748751 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 23:22:58 +0000 moira 748751@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Your post is very funny and you have an easy and very cool style that looks great. What more do you want? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---bad-preppy-bad-preppy#post-748740 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 23:11:16 +0000 deb 748740@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I like it. You look very 'cool'! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---bad-preppy-bad-preppy#post-748721 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:30:43 +0000 MsLuna 748721@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>You look so cute </p> <p>I guess technically it can be preppy but you add some spunk to it. Preppy is... too clean cut and basic. This one has pizzazz! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---bad-preppy-bad-preppy#post-748720 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:28:23 +0000 K. Period. 748720@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>rachylou, I love that you make preppy punk. I'm almost reflexively anti-preppy, but you make it so fabulous, so modern, so rebellious, I love it. I eat it up. You are amazing! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---bad-preppy-bad-preppy#post-748718 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:21:49 +0000 rachylou 748718@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Haha. I tussled with the sweater and lost. It wanted in to the cart and it got what it wanted.</p> <p>The scarf I got at a Buffalo Exchange, which is like a punky Marshall's. They've got them in several cities around the U.S. There's got to be some available somewhere on the web. A google throws up a similar crown and skull scarf, although I didn't see a thistle skull one in the initial results. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---bad-preppy-bad-preppy#post-748714 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:03:42 +0000 Caro in Oz 748714@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Colour-blocking - check.<br /> Pattern mixing - check.<br /> Skinnies (which look amazing on you) - check.<br /> Texture - check.</p> <p>How is this not modern? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---bad-preppy-bad-preppy#post-748705 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:50:43 +0000 kellygirl 748705@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Sassy and oh, so cool! I love that Target sweater. It tried jumping into my cart the other day. YLF! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---bad-preppy-bad-preppy#post-748700 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:48:49 +0000 Anonymous 748700@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh I love the scarf? Where is it from?</p> <p>I like this look a lot! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---bad-preppy-bad-preppy#post-748699 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:44:52 +0000 rachylou 748699@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I have been analyzing my style. This is what I'm wearing today. In theory, this is straight from the preppy handbook: cords, jumper, scarf, court shoes. What's dicey: court shoes with cords, scarf is not Hermes (plus, if you look close, the print is thistle and crown skulls), sweater's got a pattern that suggests circuit boards (and it really ought to be cashmere and heavier and navy). </p> <p>What is to be done with me? Funny how a person can be 43 and exactly as they were at 14. Or accept the restraints and still want to chew off their own paw. Or it's a cryin' shame, lol. </p>