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Say the word “preppy” and it’ll very likely conjure images of John F. Kennedy, early aughts Vampire Weekend, and maybe your favorite Vineyard Vines-bedecked finance bro. Preppy is, after all, short ...

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Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. Lisa Birnbach has seen this all before. But what does preppy style signify now? And how did an aesthetic that once ...

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