Happy Monday! To start the week off I thought that I would give you all TTP Fall Playlist. I hope you all enjoy! Thanks for reading and have a preptastic day!
Your Faithful Prepster,
Showing posts with label Fall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fall. Show all posts
8/24/2015
8/21/2015
The Perfect Crossbody for Fall
I was cleaning my room and I found a Old Navy gift card. I was thinking it was like a $25 dollar gift card, but no, it was even better, it was a $50 gift card! Don't you just love life little surprises? With this little surprise gift card, I purchased this lovely crossbody, that I think I will use a lot!
It is the perfect length and surprisingly spacious inside! It was a great steal at under $25! The color i got was cognac, I feel that it will go with a lot of the fall and winter clothes that I have, which is always good! Comment below with some of your favorite crossbody's for fall! Thank you for reading and have a preptastic day!
Your Faithful Prepster,
11/03/2014
Fall Favorites
Fall is one of my favorite times of the year. The leaves are turning, the weather is getting cold, but not too cold. The down sides to autumn is that when the leaves fall, the allergies start, and I have to play tennis is the freezing wind by the end of October. Since tennis is over and I am only playing tennis two days a week, I promise to blog more. Honestly, blogging relaxes me and I have been missing it.
Before I share my Fall Favorites, Happy November!
Now for my Fall Favorites.
Thank you for reading and have a preptastic day!
Your Faithful Prepster,
11/06/2013
L.L. Bean's Adirondack Barn Coat
I was looking for a winter coat in my closet this past week and I found one of my old Barn Coats. I was form when I was 8 or 9 and was a XL kids size. It fit me beautifully, the arms were a smig short, but all in all fit me perfectly. I wanted to see if I could get another coat like it and I found the Adirondack Barn Coat on L.L. Bean.com.
Your Faithful Prepster,
mSv
This jacket especially reminds me of a Barbour jacket, except instead of $300 it is $80. I like this jacket a lot because it is not to heavy, and if it is cold enough you can put a sweatshirt under it. For the reason of putting a sweatshirt under a jacket, I was ways get a jacket like this a size up. So I normally wear a Large in jackets, even though I wear a medium in t-shirt size I have ways gone up a size when I buy sweatshirts, I would most likely buy a Large or Extra-large in this jacket.
Like everything L.L Bean makes I know that it will last a long time and look good as new in ten years. This jacket is great, it is not to constricting, while still being stylish and warm. They make then in a mens version too! Thank you for reading and have a preptastic day!
Your Faithful Prepster,
mSv
10/03/2013
My Fall Playlist
So I have been in school for a total of five weeks now and I have been on my Spotify way to much. I have finally came up with a great playlist for the fall!! So I have a lot of things mixed together -Country, Indie, Pop, Rap. I hope you all enjoy it!!! Thank you for reading!
Your Faithful Prepster,
mSv
10/02/2013
Fall Nail Polish
I Love fall nail polish! I always think that people look at the details of an outfit, like the nails. Here are so nail polish colors from Essie. Hope you enjoy!
Hope everyone loves these colors, and I hope everyone has a great day!
Your Faithful Prepster,
Your Faithful Prepster,
mSv
9/30/2013
Frye Boots!!
I love Frye boots. Literally the only two pair of real boots I have are Fryes and I wear the so much! At least during the winter I do. In the summer it is just to hot to wear socks and boots. I have a very strange problem, I have HUGE calfs. I had to get these boots a size up just so that I could wear them. So instead of 8's and I have to get 9's.
I wear these all the time. My friend, kNea, and I have the of these boots. I wear mine so much, with dresses, jeans, shorts, etc. They may be the best purchase that I have made since I bought my Rainbows!! I bought mine two years ago.
My second pair of Frye boots that I bought last year. They have a 2 inch heel, but they look supper cute with a casual everyday dress! They only thing is that you have to do if yo buy these boot is that you have to were more like knee high socks instead of just high socks.
Thank you for reading and I hope you have a great day!!
Your Faithful Prepster,
mSv
9/27/2013
Must Add Preppy Books to Your Fall Reading List: Part 2
Here is part two, because there are to many Preppy books to read this fall!
"Curtis Sittenfeld’s debut novel, Prep, is an insightful, achingly funny coming-of-age story as well as a brilliant dissection of class, race, and gender in a hothouse of adolescent angst and ambition.
Lee Fiora is an intelligent, observant fourteen-year-old when her father drops her off in front of her dorm at the prestigious Ault School in Massachusetts. She leaves her animated, affectionate family in South Bend, Indiana, at least in part because of the boarding school’s glossy brochure, in which boys in sweaters chat in front of old brick buildings, girls in kilts hold lacrosse sticks on pristinely mown athletic fields, and everyone sings hymns in chapel.
As Lee soon learns, Ault is a cloistered world of jaded, attractive teenagers who spend summers on Nantucket and speak in their own clever shorthand. Both intimidated and fascinated by her classmates, Lee becomes a shrewd observer of–and, ultimately, a participant in–their rituals and mores. As a scholarship student, she constantly feels like an outsider and is both drawn to and repelled by other loners. By the time she’s a senior, Lee has created a hard-won place for herself at Ault. But when her behavior takes a self-destructive and highly public turn, her carefully crafted identity within the community is shattered.
Ultimately, Lee’s experiences–complicated relationships with teachers; intense friendships with other girls; an all-consuming preoccupation with a classmate who is less than a boyfriend and more than a crush; conflicts with her parents, from whom Lee feels increasingly distant, coalesce into a singular portrait of the painful and thrilling adolescence universal to us all." - Amazon Summary
My friend dCm read this book for our summer required reading for English. I think that I would really enjoy this book, and I think that a lot of other girls in my class would like this book too.
"A powerful first novel about life and death, friendship and love, as one young man must navigate the depths of his emotions.
JASON PROSPER grew up in the elite world of Manhattan penthouses, Maine summer estates, old-boy prep schools, and exclusive sailing clubs. A smart, athletic teenager, Jason maintains a healthy, humorous disdain for the trappings of affluence, preferring to spend afternoons sailing with Cal, his best friend and boarding-school roommate. When Cal commits suicide during their junior year at Kensington Prep, Jason is devastated by the loss and transfers to Bellingham Academy. There, he meets Aidan, a fellow student with her own troubled past. They embark on a tender, awkward, deeply emotional relationship.
When a major hurricane hits the New England coast, the destruction it causes brings with it another upheaval in Jason’s life, forcing him to make sense of a terrible secret that has been buried by the boys he considers his friends.
Set against the backdrop of the 1987 stock market collapse, The Starboard Sea is an examination of the abuses of class privilege, the mutability of sexual desire, the thrill and risk of competitive sailing, and the adult cost of teenage recklessness. It is a powerful and provocative novel about a young man finding his moral center, trying to forgive himself, and accepting the gift of love." - Amazon Summary
This is a little heavy, but my friend at camp was reading it and I thought that it would be a interesting read to see the not so glamorous part of prep school life. Not saying that every prep school is like the one in the book, but I doubt that it has not happened.
Thank you for reading and I hope everyone will at least conceder reading one of these books that I have showed to you over the past two days! Have a great day!
Your Faithful Prepster,
mSv
9/26/2013
Must Add Preppy Books to Your Fall Reading List: Part 1
I resently stubbled apoun some books on Amazon that are all about Prep!!!!! They have defenatly been aded to my Fall/Winter reading list and I hope that they will be added to yours too!!! I don't have a lot of time to read books that I pick, most of the books that I read during the year are books for English. But they will most defiantly be read during my Holiday Brake in December.
"It is the inalienable right of every man, woman and child
to wear khaki. Looking, acting, and ultimately being Prep is not restricted to
an elite minority lucky enough to attend prestigious private schools, just
because an ancestor or two happened to arrive here on the Mayflower. You don't
even have to be registered Republican. In a true democracy everyone can be
upper class and live in Connecticut. It's only fair. The Official Preppy
Handbook will help you get there." - Amazon Summary
So this book was originally published in 1980 and I think that it would be a great read for three reasons: 1) It is taking a preppy look from 30 years ago that would be great to read about and see how the prep culture and fashion has changed. 2) It looks like it would be really funny while being supper true. 3) Come on it is the "Official Preppy Handbook"!!!
Or
" “Wake up, Muffy. We’re back.”
From Lisa Birnbach, the author of The Official Preppy Handbook—and designer Chip Kidd—comes a whole new take on the prep world that Birnbach turned into an international best-selling phenomenon thirty years ago.
True Prep is a contemporary look at how the old guard of natural-fiber-loving, dog-worshipping, G&T-soaked preppies adapt to the new order of things. Birnbach considers the prep attitude towards money (ambivalent), schools (good investment), wardrobe (now your clothes fit), work (some careers will never be prep), decorating (ask mummy), scandal (including rehab and prison), and food and drink (with some classic recipes for both). She also looks at weekends (and what to do to get asked back), entertaining, sports (including sailing and shopping), weddings, etiquette, the Internet and electronic gadgetry, political correctness, reality TV, and . . . polar fleece. And last but not least: a do-it-yourself eulogy.
With more than 200 original illustrations and photographs, True Prep promises to be a whole new, old sensation." - Amazon Summary
From the same author of "The Official Preppy Handbook", Lisa Birnbach. This book was published in 2011. I have a feeling that this is like an updated version of "The Official Preppy Handbook" that was published 30 years ago. This also may include the high Nike socks with Sperry's look that half the boys in my class rock almost everyday.
"The authoritative fashion history of the roots, growth, and offshoots of the quintessentially American preppy style. Preppy offers the first definitive and in-depth volume on preppy fashion, exploring its evolution from its pragmatic origins and presence on elite Eastern campuses in America to its profound influence internationally and metamorphosis on the runway. For the first time, the preppy story is told completely and beautifully with iconic and never-before-published archival and editorial photographs and personal snapshots from the original Ivy elites.
Exploring all facets of men’s and women’s preppy fashion, this vibrant volume is replete with photographs and vintage ads illustrating the iconic elements of prep: from Oxford shirts, khakis, and Shetland sweaters to Peter Pan collars, madras pants, and Lilly Pulitzer tropical blooms. Authors Jeffrey Banks and Doria de La Chapelle also examine the fashion designers who played a major role in shaping the preppy look, from retail pioneers J.Press and Brooks Brothers to Ralph Lauren, who single-handedly marketed not just a look but a lifestyle. Also featured: a band of young twenty-first century Ivy stylists and fashion labels worldwide, who have infused preppy with high-octane design on and off the runway. Preppy is a stunning tribute to an American phenomenon." - Amazon Summary
The forward is by Lilly Pulitzer. Enough said. Well for me at least. I think this will be great read and very interesting because it will show you the side of the designer and the thinks that have defined prep: the brands and the stores.
These have already been added to my fall/winter reading list! thank you for reading and have a great day! Tomorrow is part 2 of this series!
Your Faithful Prepster,
mSv
9/24/2013
Socks for Fall: Boots
I have found some really great socks for fall that will go great with riding boots and Bean boots.
Bean Boots:
Riding Boots:
Bean Boots:
Thank you for reading and I hope that you find the right pair of socks for your Bean Boots and riding boots. Have a great day!
Your Faithful Prepster,
mSv
mSv
9/17/2013
Fall of 2013: Lilly Pulitzer
So the Lilly Pulitzer Fall collection came out a few weeks ago and I have picked out just a few things to show you all!
Your Faithful Prepster,
mSv
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