The Official Preppy Handbook

确定不是和格调一样是本自黑的册子么hhhh

看完还挺难过的，体面却虚无的一生

There is never, ever, a new look for the man.

读之前我真的以为是一本讲 Preppy fashion 的书（也确实有讲），结果发现其实是本一本正经地全方位讥讽 Preppy lifestyle 的书，包括穿什么、用什么、做什么，甚至给狗起什么名字，几乎每句话都有梗，插图精美，编排有趣，大概是 GQ 实验室讽刺中产系列的鼻祖。 “Remember this Preppy watchword: work hard, play hard, but if you can only do one, play hard.”

事无巨细却很风趣的描述，读完仿佛看到了一个preppy的一生

所謂的了解Old Money Chic的入門之作，當然作者是以嘲諷詼諧的口吻寫作而非向上流社會獻上諂媚溢美之辭。其中無數的玩笑令人不禁莞爾。這本書肯定不是正經的文化研究讀本，更像是剪貼畫和文化評論合訂本。但確實也做到了讓人了解Preppy這一文化的功能，非常喜歡的一本書。

本书是介绍普及美国Preppy文化的入门手册，全书分为七章，依次是Rights of the birthright: the years at home; The root of all prep: the years at school; The best years of your life: the college years; Dressing the part: the basic look; The real world: the young executive years; You're all grown up now: the country club years; Prep spoken here等，本书曾登顶《纽约时报》的畅销书榜达38周。

Might be a serious book back to 1980s, then sarcasm in the 2000s, and today as a lament to the good'ol days. With the fact that technology is taking away the space from Finance as the later once does to art, literature and humanity, we observe how the norms became relics. I meant to look for a fashion guide but clearly received more fun than that.

补标。The elaborate mechanisms of class reproduction…