On my shoulder: a huge leopard-print Fendi sack that Andre Leon Talley had given me.
before pirouetting out of sight.)
The fact that it began to infiltrate our city wardrobes was largely due to the girls of the moment.

IN THE PINKSeersucker and pastel prints reign in Maine in 2004.
MATCH POINTYasmin Le Bon plays a sweater set in 1990.
My inner prep excelled during summer weekends.
(A whole room just for me was too expensive.)

MATCH POINTYasmin Le Bon plays a sweater set in 1990.
Paddy Byng, one half of the English couple, also worked for Ralph Lauren.
FIT TO BE TIEDAdut Akech buttons up inVogue,2023.
For a wannabe prepster like me, Paddy, Charles, and Thom were the dream housemates.

FIT TO BE TIEDAdut Akech buttons up inVogue,2023.
Wives Like Usby Plum Sykes (HarperCollins) is published on May 14.

TOOL OF THE TRADEFrom the watch to the drink to the accessories—and the book to explain it all: a panoply of prep.