**Edited to add my own preppy picture!**
First of all I have to say how thrilled I am that I just registered Supergirl for Kindergarten. She was so excited to go with me and we realized it’s only 4 months until she actually goes! The fact that she’ll get on the bus with her brother in the morning and go to the same school as him for the first time ever is pretty cool stuff.
Okay, I know you’re here for the contest. I wanted to celebrate Project Spectrum since I love pink and already have a perfect colorway for these two months. Most of you have seen my Prepster colorway designed by Leslie a few months ago. We can break it out now in full on Project Spectrum style. The winner of this contest gets this skein of yarn. A 400 yd skein in fingering weight, 100% superwash merino of Scout’s Prepster. She’s pretty huh? Click to see the colors better.
Here’s the contest. Tell me about the preppiest outfit you’ve ever worn. If you have a picture? Even better. I want to see it. If you’re wearing pink, yellow or green you’ll get bonus points. If you have never gone through a preppy stage, you can opt for a Project Spectrum Limerick in honor of April being National Poetry Month. (Bev helped me come up with this!) The only catch, is that in your Limerick you must have the words pink, yellow and green in it. Bev and Pippi will help me judge the winner of the contest. We’re looking for humor here people. Make us laugh! The funniest outfit or Limerick wins. Maybe there will be a 2nd and 3rd place prize if there are some close ones. Here is an example of me in the 5th grade. I don’t have a scanner so this is what you’ll get. Notice the lovely yellow turtleneck, plaid skirt AND blue suede clogs. And of course the mandatory headband. My mother must have picked this one out for me. I wish she were alive so I could ask her if I put the yellow turtleneck on as some sort of rebel statement because I can’t imagine she did. It doesn’t go with anything! OKay, maybe the yellow stripe in the skirt? Who knows.
The contest will go for the next 48 hours. Noon, my time on Wednesday I’ll turn off the comments and on Thursday we’ll announce the winner. I’ll even see if I can find a picture of my preppy, 8th grade outfit. And yes, a pink Oxford was worn over the white turtlenck with red hearts. Alright. I’m ready for some good stuff. Hit it!
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Me preppy? HA, HA, HA!!! I love the yarn, however.
I was such a prep in high school. I had that pocketbook with the wooden handles and the covers that buttoned on and off. You know the one I mean? Anyway, I had a white sweater that was monogrammed with my initials and 3 strawberries in red and green. I had a matching cover for the pocketbook and I had green wide wale corduroy pants with strawberries embroidered on them to go with it. It was quite the ensemble, let me tell you.
HAHAHAHA!!!! I WAS the poster child for the 80’s… cant wait to dig out some pics and send them to you!!!!!
Oh, man, does it HAVE to be me? Because my S.O. yesterday was the preppiest thing I’ve ever seen, right down to the Puma sneakers and the Urban Man Bag. Sooo not him - I think he was messing with me. Wanna see? Hehe! (And with that, I learn whether html is acceptable in your comments.)
Me? Oh my God. In high school, my friend Patrick and I were the Abercrombie Twins. Preppy was my middle name. I couldn’t just pick one obnoxious preppy outfit….
i dont’ think i can ever beat carole on this one, but i was a junior in highschool when the preppy handbook came out. and that book became my bible. i even went to one of the colleges mentioned in the book (the number 3 drinking school — yeah i was proud). unfortunately the preppy look was not a good one for me as i had way too much boob and ass, but i tried. i’m pretty sure i had an izod and a shetland crewneck in every color and matching grograin headbands. not the pocketbook though as it didn’t hold nearly enough stuff.
I was never a prep! Bummer! Just thinking about argyle or Ralph Lauren ad makes me shudder. THe yran is gorgoues though.
I had the hand book and the purse with the wood handles and several of the changeable purse covers but that was about it. It was bad enough that I was in the honor’s classes and a member of the debate team. I didn’t need to wear the clothing to make me stand out more. I was also a kock since I was a varsity gymnast. I was also involved with the theater. Do you really think I wanted to stand out anymore than I did?
But I do love the yarn. The colors are really pretty. I think Super Girl needs a special pair of socks or a sweater for when she starts kindergarten in the fall.
I loves me a limerick! Here goes:
There once was an artist named Scout,
She dyed fabric that would make you shout,
She used yellow and green
And some pink with a sheen
You’ll just LOVE how her Prepster came out!
My sorority colors were pink and kelly green, which meant I had an entire wardrobe of it as well as my room decor.
(small voice) I once wore keds, pink plaid shorts, polo shirt and a 9″ hairsprayed stiff floral bow in my hair to a headbanger concert in our local seedy ‘backroom’ club. I think it was for Great White or Poison. My outfit embarassed all the black leather clad friends I was with.
They kept hissing: “I can’t believe you wore that?!!?”
I was all “Whaaaaaat?? I put on black eyeliner!”
Anyway, they ditched me, so I was the lonely preppy girl in the corner.
Does a high school choir uniform count? The girls wore mid-calf length grey skirts, oxford shirt, navy blazer, and an awful burgandy/navy
neck tie thing. We joked among ourselves that we looked like stewardesses. I envied those choirs who got to wear shapeless muumuus.
I’d have to see if my parents have any pictures of those old uniforms.
No prepster clothing for me. I made a plaid skirt in high school home ec, but only because I had to (It was horrid and proved that I should never, ever try to sew).
So, here are a couple of limericks for you:
There was a fair knitter in Oregon
Who yearned for the green of spring again
But alas it was grey,
yellow daffodils said, ‘Nay!’
Only the pink in her yarn gave her cheer again.
If ever you yearn for the spring
Just visit Scout’s SWAG for some bling
You’ll find greens, pinks and yellows
Mixed in like fine fellows
It’s Prepster for knitting with zing!
Hi - I am looking forward to seeing you on Knitty Gritty, I’d like to try dyeing some of
my own yarn.
Here is my Limerick entry:
There was a young girl that was quite mean
She always wore pink, yellow and green
She was a real bitch
And couldn’t knit a stitch
With her I will never be seen.
Kathleen
Funny but I must admit I never even dabbled in prep. That said, I do have a skein of your Prepster and it is gorgeous so someone will be very lucky and very happy!
Man, the preppiest outfit? I went to highschool in the eighties. Need I say more? They were all preppy. I owned two pair of penny loafers: cordovan and blue and two pair of topsiders: brown and blue. I had a red plaid kilt that I wore with a blue monogram sweater (hearts with around the monogram), with a white turtleneck with small red hearts all over it. I have no pictures of that time that I can get my hands on. I also had grey pants that I wore with a pink oxford shirt with a grey cardigan that had pink flowered ribbon on the inside of the button band. I also owned two pair of duck shoes — one was pink leather with green rubber bottoms. The funny part was I loved the Sex Pistols and the Violent Femmes…. So I was punk on the inside with a prepster exterior.
There once was a preppy young knitter,
Who thought her pink purse made her a cool critter.
After knitting some mohair,
In yellow and green on a dare,
She broke out in hives, which made her very bitter.
Pink, yellow and green are so cool
Oh dang I am starting to drool
I guess it is greed
but that Prepster I NEED
Just call me a prep knitting fool…
ooh, I do love a limerick!
Here are two. For now…
ON MY VERDANT ADDICTION
Listen, I really am keen
on all the great colors I’ve seen.
Yellow and pink
are pretty, I think…
but I just can’t let go of the green!
A PROJECT SPECTRUM ODE TO “PRETTY IN PINK’s” PREPSTERS
At turning up collars, Blane’s deft.
And it’s pink linen blazers for Steff.
The bright ‘Hughes’ of spring
are a beautiful thing,
but they’re are also the colors of prep!
What cracks me up is I now see kids wearing the two Polo
shirts with the collar up. I wonder where Molly Ringwald is now?
Love the yarn!
Ya know, the 80’s were an interesting time and I am truly thankful there aren’t that many photos of me from that time. In 7th grade, I took the handbook with me to school every day. There may have been some pink and grey in my wardrobe, penny loafers and more polos (&oxfords) than you can shake a stick at, but I’m not admitting to anything. :p
There once was a gal from Aberdeen,
Who only knit yellow, pink or green.
When her aunt gave her white,
She paled in pure fright,
Hopped a cab and has since not been seen!
There once was a very nice fellow
He had quite a penchant for yellow.
But soon he did to himself start to think
That the girl next door was lovely in pink.
Her skin it did glow, her hair it did have sheen
And before he knew it, he was jealous and green.
The yellow haired knitter of Aberdeen
had a hard time keeping her fine house clean
no laundry or scrubbing here
just pink wool, Addis, and beer
and of course, some green chili with beans!
Preppy huh . . .well it was an aqua polo (with the collar up naturally)
with a cotton white and aqua pullover (with the collar up). The
pullover had pull string on the bottom side to tighten it for the
optimum effect. I wore it with totally preppie jeans and
white high top sneakers. Oh and don’t forget the white and
aqua scarf tied just so as head band over big hair.
I thank God there are no photos.
Prepster is so pretty! I never went through a preppy phase, not even in my no-uniform-but-very-strict-dress-code Catholic high school days…I was more of a punk rocker. Well, as much as I could be while I was at school. I cringe when I look at those pictures.
Please please please post the preppie pics you get though, I’m sure we’d all looooove to see them.
Can’t believe Supergirl is starting Kindergarten…time is FLYING by!
I remember going to camp when I was about 11 so about 1975 pretty preppy time and I begged my mom to get me a lacoste polo shirt so I could be so mega cool and preppy I don’t even remember the color but it got stolen at camp! I was devastated- getting some yarn now would make be feel so much better!
I really would love to have that skein so I am going to try to win bonus points by describing an outfit AND supplying an appropriate Limerick.
For your approval—Ahem—
The Sock-o-holic
Knit, purl, knit, purl, knit
You’ll never get over it
You’ll want to knot yellow and green with pink
One pair maybe two then I’m done, you’ll think
But, you’ll never get over it
My outfit consisted of a pink polo shirt, with blue, pink and yellow plaid skirt, complete with Bass Shoes’ penny loafers. Also I had the gravity defying hand wave bangs, as I like to call them. Keep in mind this was the 90s so I also had the requisite perm. Sadly, there is a photo, ugh! To think I will have to endure whatever fad happens when my two girls are that age.
Grade 9, my first highschool dance! I’m in the gym, all nervous with my gaggle of
friends… what if I don’t get asked to dance? What if I DO??!! At least I know I have
dressed appropriately for this all important occasion - pink sweater with the de rigeur
embroidered kelly green logo, over a kelly green polo shirt, with stone wash jeans (not
too tight!) and kelly green socks, and even a pink bow in my hair, and, of course,
my penny loafers. Oooh, they’re playing Pet Shop Boys - I think I’ll go dance!
(please note: this happy story of pink and green was ditched sometime during the
coming year as I decided an all black wardrobe better suited my teenage melacholy
and I attended the back-to-school dance the following year with white pancake
makeup, blood red lips, many, many safety pins as jewellery and hoping they would
play The Ramones.)
Prep was for all out-of-staters
They’d wear tennis shirts topped off with ‘gators
Their legs were all tanned
And they’d lie in the sand
Their mothers were wide-assed like freighters.
Oh lordy.
Navy blue kneesocks.
Navy blue wide-wale corduroy “walking shorts”.
Brown penny loafers (WITH PENNIES OH YES INDEED).
White turtleneck with some sort of wee animal on the collar - alligator, perhaps?
Green pullover sweater with huge monogram on the chest in white…in the diamond shape, remember those?
And to top it all off, the kelly green rain slicker lined in blue with little white whales.
I probably also had ribbons in my hair.
Heaven help me.
My preppy phase didn’t last long but oh - it was long enough.
I remember ironing the collar of my pink polo stripe with so much spray starch that there was no way it could ever fall down. The shirt was solid pink with a light green horse embroidered in that spot that the embroidered horse had to be, and the collar had a matching thin green stripe around it. I wore this lovely shirt with knee length white bermuda shorts and my pink and grey saddle shoes.
Oh I so have my ninth grade photo with the pop-up collar & fisherman’s sweater.
Can’t wiat to send it.
I was kind of sad when the both went off to all-day K.
It was bittersweet, but now I am trying to have 2 more so I get to go through it all over again & with a 12 year-old
& a 10 year-old I will have built-in babysitters.
I was never preppy! I guess I have to do a limerick…
There was a young knitter so green,
That many a color she’d not seen.
She threw quite a stink
When she first saw pink
And yellow sent her into a spleen.*
*using the definition of spleen as “ill temper.”
here goes:
She dressed me in pink, yellow and green.
I tried real hard not to be seen.
Ya gotta love mom,
She thought t’was the bomb.
It just made me want to scream!
If a knitter enrolled in Yale
Knit, purl, study - all else is pale
Make new pink, yellow and green cardis
Oh, she is such a smarty
Her classes she’d never fail
Alas, the knitter tries her first ale
And her belly balloons like a whale
When the knitter decides to party
She’ll take off afore mentioned cardis
And she’ll surely pull preppy “tail”
I don’t know if this counts or not, but in high school, I was a foriegn exchange student to Australia. We had a uniform at the school I attended while I was there. I dated one guy and when we went out somewhere (can’t remember where, but I’ll never forget this part) he said “don’t you own any shoes other than your uniform shoes?” I thought I was all hip in my penny loafers, lilac turtleneck, etc. and he was a long haired rocker type of guy. I was horrified, completely embarrassed and actually never wore the shoes again!
P.S., I know I didn’t use any pink or yellow, but isn’t purple your favorite? I was wearing lilac.
OK so my freshman year in high school one of my favorite outfits was a khaki knee length skirt with a hot pink Aligator (Lacoste) polo shirt, and a pale green cotton crewneck that I would jauntily wear over my shoulders with the sleeves tied together in front, and my oxblood pennie loafers. With pennies, without socks or stockings, natch. Oh–and a pink headband to hold back my chin length bob. My husband takes the cake, however. While attending Brown University he wore Nantucket Reds (which in my book is a fancy way of saying stone washed rose colored canvas trousers) with a Ralph Lauren signal flag shirt. It’s a winning combo I tell ya!
Okay, just a few more. Then I need to get this pesky Limerick Machine out of my head!
—–
The Project demands we branch out
with color, and work past our our doubt.
So yellow and green
help make Prepster’s mien…
but PINK is still prettiest to Scout!
—–
In the midwestern 80s punk scene,
there wasn’t a shortage of green.
But never with pink
(nor yellow, I think)
for the working class punk rocker teen.
—–
MORE “PRETTY IN PINK”: ODE TO ANDIE
The 80s near tore us apart
(with Reaganomics and wars, for a start).
But you put politics aside
when you stood up and cried,
“a prepster has stolen my heart!”
—–
…AND TO MOLLY RINGWALD
You wore yellow and pink as a teen,
as you blew out those Candles Sixteen.
Sure, the Breakfast Club’s cool —
you’re the queen of high school!
But can’t we be pretty in green?
I’m pretty much completely unqualified for this contest. I really can’t write a limerick to save me and was never preppy. I may be dating myself, but the high school outfit was very low, very worn, very grubby bell bottoms, skin tight to the knee and a clingy rib-knit shirt (or a halter top when I could get away with it) and moccasins.
OH MY…something I really hate to admit to! I did fall into the “Preppie” zone for a very brief period! I wore the Izod (alligator)shirt (color~navy), Dickie pants (my god, work pants of all things….that I never understood…I just knew you had to own “Dickie” brand pants) khaki & navy, to go with multiple Izod’s…brown penny loafers, (oh my god) yes, the headband to coordinate! The wooden handled pocketbook with buttons for interchangeable/coordinating covers…Scout, do you realize this really hurts to admit…I even had the monogrammed sweater, that if you weren’t wearing you’d tie (gulp) over your shoulders! Thank God this only lasted for a short time…a very short time!
BTW…I’m so thankful there are no pictures of me dressed this way…at least to my knowledge!
Um, what’s your mailing address? I’ll send you all 4 years of my high school annuals. But you’ll have a very hard time picking ONE outfit. And, er, right now? I’m wearing grey flanned pants, a pale pink cashmere *ahem* twin set. And pearls. And rectangular black reading glasses as a headband. Are you gonna’ block me from ever commenting again? I promise I’ll wear yoga pants and a camisole next time I visit your site. Oh, I forgot to mention, I ordered an L. L. Bean boat tote, in pink and green stripe, when I got my new catalog last week. Monogrammed, of course. Hey, it’s free monogramming if you use your L.L. Bean Visa, can’t pass that up! (Running and changing clothes…right now)
Adorable! I never did preppy, not even as that Halloween joke that we talked about. I don’t even think I’ve ever worn a polo shirt. O_o Generally “jeans and shirt” make the grade for what I put on in the morning. Effort? Me?
Hmm.. maybe I’m the only one brave enough to post a picture of my peppy outfit? Oh well, it’s not all that embarrassing! But you’ll have to cut and paste the link. I promise it’s worth it!
http://images2.fotopic.net/?iid=y18u90&noresize=1&nostamp=1&quality=70
It does have pink and yellow! And me when I was five!
The preppiest thing I ever wore would have been the uniform I wore to prep school. Green and white plaid skirt, white shirt with short sleeves and peter pan collar, bobby socks, saddle oxfords (green and white to match school colors - tres prep) and a green blazer with white piping for underclassmen and white blazer with green piping for seniors with (I’m not making this up) club pins from school activities worn on the blazer lapel. We were even in the Preppy Handbook. Scary stuff.
Off hours, the worst prep it got before I hit an unaccountable punk phase (1981) was pink chinos with little green alligators on them worn with a pale pink Izod and green Topsiders or white Tretorns. If it got cold, I would then layer over a white button-down and if it got really cold I had a green sweater with a fair isle design that was in white, yellow, pink and green. Oddly, the pink alligator chinos went over great in the punk scene as well. I think they found them scarier than those plaid bondage pants everyone wore for a while.
Oh, and the bag with the interchangeable covers is a Bermuda bag. I think I still have mine somewhere. Sick, isn’t it :>
Liz, you were in the Preppy Handbook?! I’m sooo jealous!!! I’m Izod-gator-green with envy.
Oh, My God! I was so preppy in high school and college (dating myself!). Green Izod shirt - collar up under pink button-down oxford shirt with khakis and some kind of preppy ribbon belt. Shoes were Tretorn sneakers (they’re back in stock now, must get a pair even though the rest of the preppy look is long gone). I had the Bermuda bags with the wooden handles and my book bag of choice was an LLBean tote. I remember that my raincoat in college was a preppy green slicker with a hood (how hideous is that??!!)
No way am I dragging out the photos. You can’t make me ;op
You realize, after reading this post, I’ll probably have nightmares tonight about being back in High School!
My worst Prepster moment. School Photos with me in my pink oxford button down, Burgundy Corduroy Blazer (no cool arm patches either), Khaki pants and Docksiders sans socks (talk about stinky feet). Headband on head holding back short hair. The worst thing about this pic is that it’s my sophmore year photo taken in October for the year book in the most hellishly freakish Florida Hot day ever. My ace was so shiny I’m surprised the camera could even take the picture.
Oy! That phase came and went quick, I couldn’t take the layers.
This picture is wrong for so many reasons. I posted it on my flickr site http://www.flickr.com/photos/allaboutmoi/ so you can check it out. I must really want this yarn. I’m on the left in this pic, and I know it’s a picture of a picture because I don’t have a scanner either, but my shirt is pink, the vest is teal, and do I really have to say it…what is up with those pearls? O.K., O.K., and I had the eighties hair thing going on as well. This pic was taken in college, circa 1983-84. I’m glad this contest doesn’t last long, because that picture is coming down.
Man! does this bring back memories!! The preppiest outfit I ever had was in high school. It was a green, and I do mean GREEN, sleeveless dress. The material was kind of a linen quality and had darts from the bust down. It had navy blue piping around the armholes and neck. And, are you ready????, it had my MONOGRAM in navy blue right there on the front of the dress below the neck. To top it off — I carried a green trimmed in navy blue Pappagallo handbag with little wooden handles and, of course, my navy blue monogram was on that as well. Are you still seated??? Espadrilles completed the look —- green trimmed with navy, of course. I was such a hottie! HA!!!
Hmmm. I think I still dress that way. My preppiest was probably kahki’s with brown loafers (white socks of course) and a plaid button up shirt that had green, yellow, white and blue in it and a matching sweater to go over it (green) so that the collar would still show to indicate how well I matched. Other than that, maybe the little sailor outfit and hat my mom put me in for church one Easter. Unfortunately my outfit today doesn’t vary much (kahki’s, brown clogs (white socks because I couldn’t find any others), and a button up shirt with green, white, and blue in it. Just missing the sweater. That’s quite scary now that I think of it! =)
I say you MAKE JessaLu DIG OUT the pictures.
I’m saying this in an official capacity.
and
*cough*
Did I ever tell you I was a supposed “Ringlett” in HS? Yea, or that is what they called me.
Ok, here’s my unpreppy limerick.
There once was a girl who didn’t like pink
Or yellow and green, she said, they all stink.
Give me violet yarn, burgundy lace too,
And crushed velvet black up the wazoo,
Just Goth me up and then mix me a drink!
As a senior in high school, I was voted Preppiest, and willed the Preppy handbook to the junior who I thought was the preppiest. My whole wardrope was about pink and green. My ultimate–bright pink cardigan, trimmed in pink, green white grossgrain ribbon with green capris with embroidered pink whales (Lilly Pulitzer all the way!!!) and pink espendrilles (papagallos). Would I make this up??????????????????????
Pick me, it would be such a thrill, and testament to my heritage!!!!
Crap, I soooo can’t even participate in this contest!!
[I love Heathers limerick!]
One limerick with pink, yellow, green?!
How ever can Scout be so mean?!
Each color’s divine -
A favorite of mine -
To not write three would just be obscene!
So here is a limerick for pink.
A color to make people think
Of tulips and roses,
And wee babies toeses,
Or Cosmos, if you like to drink.
And yellow can just make me yearn -
A color that’s found, you will learn,
In honey and butter,
And also, I mutter,
In a glass of lovely Sauterne.
A good life is filled up with greens.
Lucky clovers or money or beans.
But the lime floating in
My tonic and gin
Is the loveliest shade that I’ve seen.
(Heh. I really only have a beer or a glass of wine every now and then…you’d think from this that I was a complete sot!)
Wow, I think I had the same outfit. My mom used to dress me in “outfits” - I think until at least 6th grade, before I rebelled and told her I’d figure out what to wear, and I might wait until the morning to do so. Boy, those memories….
The preppiest? I don’t know if you can be more preppy than a tennis outfit, complete with white polo shirt collar, turned up of course. With coordinating tennis socks (got to have that trim the right color) and white tennies (really, if you’re wearing all that, you are not wearing “sneakers”.)
But I also had a tartan kilt, with kilt pin, and wore it with a white blouse with an eyelet-trimmed collar, and a red or navy (I had one of each) monogrammed (first-LAST-middle initials, in script) sweater (crew-neck, and wool), and navy leather “kiltie” shoes. I think kiltie means loafers with pattern, like wingtip or something, with side buckles. Tights, in either red, navy, or ivory. Something like what you’re wearing.
Funny thing is, I’m adopted from Korea, so I must have been a very strange-looking Scottish lassie.
I forgot to mention the gold horn pin for the collar of the blouse. Gotta remember your pin - it was from J.G. Hook.
I think my middle name was (is) preppy. I grew up in the south so prep was de rigeur but I reveled in it and pink is still my favorite color. Can you say khaki walking shorts with izod tops? Pink and green plaid skirt with white button down and a complementary shade of pink v-neck sweater? Penny loafers of course (but I put dimes in mine, I didn’t want to be too cliche).
I had all the accessories too: the aforementioned Bermuda bag with multiple covers that I would change to match my outfit (even one with my monogram) and a couple things that were staples in the south was an add-a-bead necklace: a gold chain to which you could add gold and/or pearl beads and these ribbon baretttes that were made in all different colors so you had a set to go with each outfit. Nowadays I feel rather sloppy and dressed down when I compare what I wear to the days of yore but they just don’t make really good preppy maternity wear that is also good for chasing down a toddler *sigh* I think I feel a polo craving coming on…
Don’t have a picture, it was too long ago. I remember when I was in sixth grade, living in the East coast in the sixties. Our class was traveling to NYC by train and my mom wanted me to have a new outfit. She sewed me a woolen outfit, a shocking pink and white windowpane checkered jacket (double breasted with white ball-like buttons) and matching pants. This was a very huge deal for me because a) my mom had put much effort into making me look nice and, b) I wasn’t usually allowed to wear pants. I simply loved this outfit and wore the ensemble as often as possible, as much as my parents would let me wear the pants (slacks in those days,right?). I thought I looked a little like Marlo Thomas in “That Girl”.
I do not have a picture of my favorite ensemble (pink button oxford, green lacoste with collar turned up underneath, chinos with duck shoes), but here’s a sample of the madness. Please not the madras shirt, wooly lacoste sweater and grosgrain watchband. You can’t see my topsiders.
Check out my lj entry:
click here
omg, Sarah R’s limericks are fantastic!!
Ok, preppy PHASE? Try my entire life…Evidence?
1. I am Episcopalian.
2. My flower girls at my wedding wore Lily Pulitzer dresses.
3. I have duck prints all over my house in a totally non-ironic way.
4. I believe that Triscuits are appropriate for all occasions.
5. I had a punk phase in high school, which is a very preppy thing to do.
6. I wore patchwork pants well into my twenties.
7. My parents took away err THEIR charge card because of over a dozen purchases at the Pappagallo Patch, my favorite shoe store ever, of THE SAME espadrille in over a DOZEN colors!
8. Every possible item of my clothing was monogrammed. Always.
When I was in highschool I loved to wear my preppy pink oxford blouse, (sometimes with the little ribbon tie at the top) and carry my preppy purse - wooden handles with whales embroidered on it- oh and top siders of course.
My mil gave me a preppy outfit last year - pink, white and green plaid capri pants (can you picture it!?) with a matching pink sleeveless polo shirt with green ducks embroidered all over it. I wore it once to please her but there’s no way I let anyone take a picture!
Um, two LAYERED polo shirts (with collars turned up, naturally), pleated front khakis, pegged at the ankles, deck shoes, and a sweater around the shoulders with the cuffs folded together. I’m pretty sure there is no photographic evidence.
I’m still preppy!! How about… twin set, khakis, loafers, and pearl studs? Or… Polo shirt with J Crew sweater tied around my waist (so the tag showed, of course), khaki shorts, and Keds or Tretorns?
That sock yarn looks like candy…
The meter is wrong but it rhymes.
There once was a jolly good fellow
Who dressed from hat to sock in yellow
And shuddered at the thought of the sheen
Of anything that remotely looked green
But would dye for a bowl of pink jello.
Never a prep! A hippie was I.
Pink gauze shirts and also tie-dye.
Clogs of suede blue,
Overalls, headscarves too,
Green and yellow? Nah. Not so fly.
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I can not resist a limerick . But really, what a slacker, I’m unable to work the phrase “ass as wide as a freighter” into mine. Some people REALLY have a way with words….
Writing this made me realize that I never wore green but now it is one of my most favorite colors (although NOT in a plaid or in the shape of a whale).
Not one to resist a challenge…
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With an ass as wide as a freighter,
You’d think she’d chose clothes some sedater,
Striped yellow, pink, green
She looks like the Queen
of Spring….along ALL the equator.
You guys are making this a difficult choice…so much prep in one place!!
Goodness, I should take time to scan old photos. Just last week the kiddos dug out an old album from my High School days. There’s one of me wearing this hot pink one piece outfit with large daisy flowers each with different color centers…and I made it myself. In H.S. I was quite the sewer. I also had a red/black pleated plaid skirt with a black vest that had matching welt pockets…again…I made it. And I wore a navy plaid skirt with navy v-neck chashmere sweater…I looked like a catholic school girl…and I didn’t go to the catholic H.S. Go figure that I would choose these clothes myself. In college, my favorite outfit was a pair of pink gingham overalls. Not as preppy as penny loafers…but oh, so girly. This year, during St. Patrick’s Day week, I realized just how much I liked my kelly green Tommy polo. I washed that over and over…to wear it 3 times…to each of the kiddo’s parties. I think if “the preppy” is in your blood, then it never goes away
I can only hope that quantity can make up for quality because I was catholic schoolgirl so I have a multitude of pictures of myself in various preppy outfits including pleated skirts and knee socks and polos and oxfords oh my! I can’t decide whether the best one is the one of me in uniform as the captain of the math league, or else if it’s the one of me as president of the knitting club, or just the one of me celebrating because school, and therefore uniforms was over.
I just added some happy photos to my blog. I’m not so ashamed of my PINK clothes. In fact, I may seek some new ones out.
Sarah R, you are seriously my limericking hero!
Here’s my answer to the challenge…
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Silence your inner fat-hater,
and consider that bigger is greater!
Green, yellow and pink
are prettiest, I think,
on an ass that’s as big as a freighter.
Scout’s holding a contest, it’s true
And to win it all you have to do
Is recall preppy phases
From your high school dayses
And dig up a picture or two
Now because I’m a true fiber whore
With a stash that could fill a small store
I climbed to the attic,
a feat acrobatic
For photos which might earn me more
Pictures were tossed in a flurry
Yearbooks perused in a hurry
But pink yellow and green
Were not to be seen
And so I began to worry
Brown loafers with penny
Collars flipped to my chinny
And argyle vests there were none
Pleated skirts were all missing
From my reminiscing
For preppy clothes I did shun
Wearing black head to toe
And a sneer apropos
My teenage self glared back at me
I recalled my Mom’s warning
“Don’t dress like in mourning
Or certainly sorry you’ll be!”
I scoffed at her then
That squawking old hen
For what could she possibly know
Following the path
Of Steinbeck and Plath
My life promised nothing but woe
Brooding was ended, and color returned
As life became pleasant once more
Red, yellows and blues
Green and pink hues
joy I no longer abhor
But three girls of my own
Make me shudder and groan
As I recall my own Mother’s curse.
May you have kids like you
All mopey and blue
In fact, I hope they act worse!
Not winning this prize should be payment enough
For the headaches I caused both my parents
But I know it’s too late to cheat payback fate
My kids will all be malcontents
Oops! There are supposed to be breaks to signify the end of the limerick stanzas. Sorry.
Hi Scout! Such a cool idea for a contest. I didn’t write a limerick…or get here in time. But you got me thinking, so I brought you something else (a little prezzie for thinking up such a cool contest idea):
Pink sun winks down, smiles,
and sleeps. Moon, green with envy,
turns its yellow cheek.
Thanks for the laughs! The entries are great. I’d forgotten all about the pink-green-yellow preppie thing…eeek!
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[...] Scout’s having a Project Spectrum contest. You can play along in two different ways: by describing or showing a picture of the preppiest outfit you’ve ever worn, or by writing a Project Spectrum limerick containing the words pink, yellow, and green. Leave your comments by noon, MDT, April 4, and you could win a skein of Scout’s yarn in the Prepster colorway (which is pink, yellow, and green). [...]
[...] With all of my recent gallivanting, I was informed by Scout, that I need a cellphone… Hahaha. Some months it is all I can do to keep regular land line service. I would be terribly dangerous with a cell. I’m a talker once I get going. Speaking of Scout, she asked me to co-judge her latest contest. Aye, ask an aspiring Buddhist to be a judge, why don’t ya. It is hard… Carole’s Post?, Norma’s Limerick? or This picutre from Literate Knits? (I love it super duper muchly since they are knitting!) Anyway, I think I have a few hours left to decide where my vote goes. Sheesh, I hate casting judgment on others! [...]