Old Boy Prep

The "Bro" of preps, this Prep is a good time seeking individual who drives fast, drinks fast but hunts slow ("Let's make a weekend out of it!") Ladies love him (his chauvinistic humor is funny and tolerable) and guys want to hunt with him. Mostly found in the South (though Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Massachusetts have their fair share) these boys love the outdoors; hunting, shooting, fishing, and bonfires (great on autumn nights with beer). Their mothers are Southern Belles and their fathers are corporate raiders or entrepreneurs. They live in faded Georgian homes with fox hunting prints on the walls and a gun dog sleeping by the fireplace. Old Boy Preps go to all boy boarding schools (years of male bonding and lacrosse help shape them to be great men). The Salisbury School, Woodberry Forest School, and Georgetown Preparatory are some of the schools the young men attend. For University, UVA, Harvard, Trintiy, UNC Chapel Hill, Wake Forest and Princeton are popular, but the king is Hampden-Sydney College. Located in Virginia, this school is all-male and is located in a rural area perfect for hunting and shooting (gentlemen are made here). Popular majors for Old Boy Preps are economics, finance, poly-sci and international relations. You can notice and Old Boy Prep by his clothes and accessories; Vineyard Vines everything, Sperrys, Barbour, croakies and needlepoint belts made by an ex-girlfriend. The Land Rover Defender is a popular choice, but if unattainable, the Range Rover and Chevy Tahoe are just as great. There is a time when a Old Boy Prep might get a F-150, but they get rid of it after a few years because they really don't need all that room to carry around golf clubs. Old Boy Preps like to off-road, whether it is the back entrance to their grandparents estate or at a point-to-point. Old Boy Preps love to hunt and shoot; nothing is as great as a Saturday morning stalking a stag. Barbour is still very big with preps and in order to differentiate themselves from trendy types (now buying Barbour) they leave their coats un-waxed and distressed with wear. There is always a contest going on during hunts on how many dead pheasants you can fit in the game pocket of your Beaufort. Fox hunting is becoming popular again, and Middleburg is the epicenter, so its easy for an Old Boy Prep to go down from Washington D.C. The Old Boy Prep is a testament that WASPs can still have fun and will continue to do so until the end of time.

Eco Prep

You might see this Prep on I-84 driving his Volvo wagon with muddied tires through Farmington with a Colby College and Kimball Union sticker on the back. He may have some Mums he purchased in Litchfield on his way back from visiting family in Bronxville. He is a Eco Prep. Eco (by no way in relation to lefty liberal Green Party types) Prep is a sect of the "Preppy" culture that is a more casual and progressive than the rest of the clan, but still Conservative by main-stream views. They can be found in their natural habitat in places like north west Connecticut, Duchess County in New York, the Berkshires, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Virginia. They live in eighteenth century colonials with faded Laura Ashley wallpaper and Liberty print drapes. They usually have a conservatory, (built in the early eighties) and a large shed purchased as a kit and put up by four preps as a weekend project (team building exercise). The children of Eco Preps go to schools like Kents Hill School, Kimball Union Academy, Suffield Academy and Deerfield Academy (very rural and woodsy locations, but still close enough to home or the summer house). There they spend time hiking, kayaking, and gaining preference for Patagonia fleece. Once on to university, its usually Amherst, Dartmouth, Colby, Bates, Williams, or any small private New England liberal arts college (close to skiing). Majors include Biology, History, Art History, and English. Summers are spent at the family compound in Maine and Christmas break at the ski house in Okemo. Skiing, camping, sailing, kayaking and hiking are favorite activities of the Eco Prep. Some Eco Preps partake in hunt and shooting, but are partial to fishing; hunting and shooting is more of a Old Boy Prep activity. Eco Preps dress just like most country/rural living preps (tattersall, tweed, wide-wale cords, Barbour, wool jumpers, Been mocs and wellies) but also have Patagoina fleeces and storm jackets and Marmont puffa vests. They also are more apt for wearing thick LL Bean plaid shirts and barn coats. Volvos and Subarus are the go to autos for Eco Preps; they are practical and made very well. Land Rovers are also popular (room for the farmers market), and a few have Mercedes wagon (if married to a Vogue Prep, it has to be German). If the young Eco Prep lives in the city, he may use a mountain bike to get around town (never a "fixie" bike). The Eco Prep may seem a little un-Prep or off-the-rails at times, but if you get to the core, they are solidly Prep.