Preppy Plus

Finally...I took some woefully-inadequate and helplessly hopeful selfies of how I dress as a plus-size prepster. You will notice that most of 

my clothes come from the high street- Lilly etc are not available here and I doubt I'd fit the product anyway. The shoes, however, accurate.

Boohoo plus palm print dress, pink and gold Jack Jogers.

Kmart dress, Lovisa shell pendant, Bass Weejuns. 

Town & Country (US) in New Zealand

After the longest time trying to source U.S. Town & Country magazine in N.Z., I finally succumbed to a subscription. I thought it would be ghastly expensive but I was very wrong. I can't remember how much but no more than a hundy for a year (including the shipping!! a huge cost to us kiwis usually). Now I can read about Muffy and Chip in delightful and novel paper form. Loverlee!!

Sex and the City- Charlotte is my girl

 

I'm a Charlotte girl. The Sex and the City straight-and-narrow sweetheart knew a bloody good tailor. Even her running gear had perfect shape, no stretched out tees or bobbly cardies in her 5th Avenue closet. 

SATC alludes to her preppy persona, with a flashback showing her in a pink and green Lilly skirt. She is prissy, has Emily Post ettiqutte standards, and worries about "a tea-bag situation." Sister wears a lot of white and you better believe that it is snowy white. 

Her makeup is just right, nothing like the garish confections of 'real housewives.' Her brows are groomed but not rectangles. Her type A fussiness understands to work with the curve. 

She sells art and studied art history at university. Lisa Birnbach's True Prep, the ultimate authority on prepdom, cites study of art history (and working in a gallery/museum) as a prep career choice. 

Whilst tongue-in-cheek, it rings true to these ears. Preps appreciate aesthetics, academic study for intellectual sake, and have a thirst for history. Be it on our walls, in our closet, or around our necks- our love for history and tradition  surrounds our daily lives.

Lilly Pulitzer app

 

If you download the Lilly Pulitzer app you can get your photos with these gorgeous frames!! So even a Kiwi girl can get a bit of Lovely Lilly!!

Tipsy in Madras- Let's Drink to the Green and Pink

 

I was pleased as punch to find this!! It is ostensibly a guide to how the seersuckered sip, but it is so much more. It is a tongue-in-cheek look into the occasions and libations of the Lilly Pulitzered lot. 

With chapters such as "Come Out Swinging: Drinks for Debs" and "To the Betamax: Preppy Movies to Drink By," authors Matt Walker and Marissa (tres Prep name) Walsh have concocted a cheeky tipple in text form. 

A gin and tonic girl- I was swept away by the Salty Dog! the scurvy-discouraging grapefruit combined with saltiness of the sea brings to mind returned sailors!

 

Broken-in Boaties

 

I was put off Sperry boat shoes at first as they 

were SO UNCOMFORTABLE but I went online and found advice on how to break them in. All you need to do, to soften them, is to soak them in warm water (a couple of hours or so) then wear them wet. Best done on a hot day as they will dry quickly. I've worn them in ice cold New York, sunny Rarotonga waters, and rainy Dunedin days. I absolutely love these blue and tan numbers- I see them as bespoke as I have moulded them to my flippers (big weird toe and all). They have holes in their soles but I can't give up on them!

Rodd & Gunn Queenstown

Is this the most Prep store design ever?! they literally put a boat in the store