True Prep: Lisa Birnbach Revisits the Preppy Handbook

My sophomore year of high school, Izods, Polos and 501 jeans made their way inward and in droves from the coasts to my rural Kansas high school. A large part of what solidified this style was the mega-hit book from a few years earlier, The Official Preppy Handbook, by Lisa Birnbach, which was released in 1980.

The former prep school girl has done it again (along with co-writer Chip Kidd). Together, they revisit prepdome with True Prep: It’s a Whole New Old World, which was released in April 2010.

Did you catch how the cover is a spoof on Gucci’s Giorgio? Here is an interview with her via Borders Books.