![]() This provides a year round beachside look that is so desirable that comfort may be thrown aside”. In chapter 4, Birnbach emphasizes the importance of appearing effortless, preppy and casual, writing, “socks are frequently not worn on sporting occasions or on social occasions for that matter. The Official Preppy Handbook also teaches readers how to dress preppy. Birnbach jokingly educates readers on navigating a cocktail party, networking, and vacationing. In Chapters 5 and 6, the book explains the prep adult life as first a “young executive”, and later as a retired adult in “the Country Club Years”. With tongue in cheek, Birnbach elucidates which college courses to take, how to design one’s dorm room, and how to party at college. The book then wittily discusses “the best years of your life”- a prep’s college years. Lisa Birnbach satirizes a prep’s ideal family lifestyle, and humorously advises readers how to pick, interview, and gain acceptance into a prep school. The Handbook begins by caricaturizing the childhood of a preppy person in 1980. Birnbach divides The Official Preppy Handbook into 7 sections, each devoted to a different period of the preppy lifestyle. Birnbach reveals through an ironic tone where preps go to school, where they summer, what brands they wear, and how they decorate their homes. The Official Preppy Handbook explains and satirizes what it takes to be a preppy person in the 1980s, parodying the lifestyle of the WASP elite. ![]()
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