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This time of year is ideal layering weather. Here, Barbour over Bosie over turtleneck.
- Crofter Yoke Fair Isle Glenugie Nep Women's Sweater - Machair Silver <https://bosie.co/products/crofter-yoke-fair-isle-glenugie-nep-womens-sweater-machair-silver>
Really nice combination. Would a brown jacket also work with this sweater and the turtleneck ?
ReplyDeleteLayering is key.
ReplyDeleteSurprisingly you are correct.
DeleteIf anyone who reads this hasn’t already been layering, you haven’t been paying attention.
DeleteAre you implying rules ?
DeleteAnon 4:10 is correct. Layering is not a rule. It’s merely basic winter savoir faire.
DeleteDear Anonymice: Layering is not only a rule, it is a year-round practice. The most Prep male layering is a polo under a Brooks Brothers (circa 1972) button-down in July. It simply doesn't get any more Prep than that.
DeleteA button down over a polo? Seriously?
DeleteIt pains me to agree but he is correct.
DeleteIt’s time has all but come and gone. However
DeleteIt still has its place for the right person.
Anon 9:18 - Certainly better than the other way around...
DeleteAh yes AndrewK247 you are most certainly correct!. I must say this has turned into a very amusing string of comments without any real nastiness fron once. (Let's hope nobody spoils that now!)
DeleteI enjoy logical layers nearly year-round. I don't really like the idea of wearing a zero-degree parka over a shirt as they are opposites! As for the button down over the polo, that was a real trend in the 1980s but seemed more like a popular reaction to the fanciful advice in "The Preppy Handbook" than a tradition. Perhaps simply an attempt to sell more shirts!
DeleteAh well AndrewK247 reading below I obviously spoke too soon. Silly me, I should have know better!
DeleteDear Cirquitor. Do you also wear long johns in July?
ReplyDeleteThat's very funny!
DeleteDear Anonymouse, I have chosen, once again, to overlook the vulgarity in responses to my pearls of Prep (pearls before piglets, alas, in many cases) and have decided to use your reply as a platform for further instruction to Muffatola's acolytes. Whilst at St. Paul's and then New Haven, I learned the Prep male tradition of eliminating as much laundry as possible. You see, young Prep males must do their own washing and drying and folding at the tender age of 12 (First Form at St. Paul's). Thus, we quickly learned to stop wearing socks, utrow (underwear for those not in the know) and white undershirts which Mother had packed for us (by the by, Prep men never, ever, never wear undershirts; these articles of clothing are not part of layering but instead are considered the attire of a different class, if you will). So, to make a long lesson short, I don't wear any utrow in July, or at any other time of the year. I less than sincerely hope this reply satisfies your lurid imagination and your thirst for Prep wisdom.
ReplyDeleteBe that as it may Mr Cirquitor. You won’t cut the mustard in the St Regis Chain naked underneath in July or especially when snow flakes fly.
DeleteDear Anomymouse: True Prep doesn't stay at hotels, no matter the level of luxury. Thus, the threat of exposure around the pool at one of your favorite motels is nil. That said, were you to visit one of the few remaining True Prep beaches, say Fat Ladies or Sconset, you may be in for a very big, and I mean very big surprise.
DeletePardon me dear Cirqutitor, to what hotel are you referring?
DeleteAnon 3:20… I think Cirquitor is confusing St Regis Hotels with the St Regis to which you are referring. Your reference to snow might have pointed him in the correct direction, but it did not. Let’s let him remain unaware of the true St Regis and its environs. The fewer people who know about it the better.
DeleteDear Anonymice. It is far from this gentlemen's comprehension as to why you are on "a must need to discuss basis" regarding my utrow habits. As for the "St. Regis Chain", for all you Mufforama acolytes sufficiently intelligent to read the below (there are a few of you so gifted) and then do all you can never, ever to visit, the St. Regis Chain of Lakes, located in the Adirondacks of northern New York, consists primarily of Upper, Middle, and Lower St. Regis Lakes. This area is renowned for the historic Seven Carries canoe route and the College of the Adirondacks (acceptance rate of 89%). Among the more charming points of interest here are filthy outhouses, overly enthusiastic anglers drinking beer and, well, that is about it. How these anonymice rever such a place escapes me, unless, of course, they enjoy fishing and swilling.
DeleteKudos to you Mr Cirquitor for doing your research. But anon 6:40 will likely agree you miss the mark. The subtlety and privacy of life in the St Régis Chain is the point. Your fellow swillers you can join further south on Tupper. If you are in luck a discreet St Regis local might point out to you an out of the way bay and a cozy cottage within. It’s privacy is as essential today as when Norma Jeane and Francis Albert used it to enjoy their waterside assignation.
DeleteDear Anonymouseamongmen, if you use Norma Jeane and Frank to make your case that the St. Regis Chain is True Prep, well, that speaks for itself, dontcha think?
DeleteOthers might ask, “what is more prep than privacy?”
DeleteAnonymouse, if committing adultery is your idea of True Prep, I can't help you. True Prep does not commit adultery.
DeletePlease Cirquitor - you usually have it going. Are you losing your touch? What is more true prep than privacy?
DeleteThis is a very good and important question.
DeleteGood point. There are private schools, private banks, private clubs, private beaches…
DeletePrivacy is the very essence of True Prep.
DeleteDear Anonymice, the tour guide for St. Regis extolled its privacy by suggesting use of this wilderness for an adulterous assignation between Marilyn Monroe and Frank Sinatra. There is nothing as un-prep as two married people engaging in such behavior other than with their respective spouses. So, if you wish to equate a private school with a log cabin wherein marital infidelity occurred, be my quest. As I have said many times, I select my friends for their indifference, my acquaintances for their generosity and my enemies for their intelligence. I have no enemies on this Blog.
DeleteI must remember that one must be patient with Yalies. For their pride is easily damaged. And they confuse easily.
ReplyDeleteDear Anonymouse, while it may be true that our pride bruises easily and that we get confused quite often, we will always have staff or employees, such as yourself, to straighten things out. Isn't it wonderful how the Universe keeps things in perfect order?
DeleteI do have a distant connection to Yale my friend. My wife’s great uncle was president of Yale way back when. They were both Brewsters so I don’t put a whole lot of stock in them. At least they weren’t from Virginia
DeleteKingman Brewster! Distant indeed! Your denigration of the Brewster family is somewhat opaque. Did they beat your family in paddle tennis one Sunday? Do explain. Your equally obtuse remark about Virginia baffles. Were you rejected by UVA? In all events, me thinks your time on this Blog is probably over, at least until 2030.
DeleteUnless it's a particularly warm sweater, other layers are a must, not just for style.
ReplyDeleteMine in the dead of winter is mostly similar to Muffy's... A light or medium weight poloneck ( turtleneck ) shirt or sweater under a crew or V-neck sweater , finishing with either a winter jacket or overcoat.
I don't do pearl necklaces, though ;)