Now though, the hallmarks of preppy dressing—bold colors ... holding a handful of ties on the coffee table in their office. “If you look at these, you see cheeseburgers, palm trees, fish ...

Dating back to the 1900s, preppy dressing is notoriously associated with Ivy League college apparel and comes typically polished. In other words, it’s a neat aesthetic usually characterized by ...

She dreamed, she said, of the day she’d be “grown-up” enough for cocktail dresses instead of preppy basics. “Now that I’m an adult, I realize how wrong I was,” the Chicago native said ...