One of the best ways to explain the prep culture would be to compare it to what we know as dandyism. If you haven’t had the chance of reading Lisa Birnbach’s books titled Official Preppy Handbook or True Prep, go ahead and buy them right away because they’re what you need to understand how to be a prep. The most interesting thing however is that although Birnbach sought to poke fun at what she referred to as the privileged culture of the East Coast college’s whom she grew up with, she ironically ended up making it appear all the more glamorous and becoming one of the main causes of spreading the prep culture throughout the United States and also to other countries around the world.
