In the late 1970s and early ’80s this overcooked iteration of the real deal kicked off a broader fashion trend, as dissected in the 1980 best-seller “The Official Preppy Handbook.” That ...
The Official Preppy Handbook, the undisputed bible and anthropological skewerer of the style, published in 1980, decided that the proto-preppy was John Adams: born and bred in New England, Harvard ...