Super preps will have recognizable "social" names that are like a code only preps know and by which they can identity each other. You may go to a public school but only if you live in the right prep neighborhood so that you will find other WASP preps there including. You belong to the older clubs that preps have always inhabited. You do not belong to the very expensive clubs and socialize with new minted high tech billionaires. Some of your friends and someone in your family is in the Social Register. on boats like the Lady Arabella (better than the Mayflower) named in honor of the Earl of Lincoln's daughter. You may be a 9th cousin once removed of Prince William. The real ones have pedigrees that tie them to the English gentry and nobility. You have and often wear a dinner jacket, and possibly a white tie for full dress with gewgaws. You inherit your grandfather's thin gold cuff-links and thick ivory-handled coat brush engraved with his monogram or coat of arms. Someday you will get dad's very thin gold watch and you will wear it on a striped grosgrain band just like he did. You learnt how to swim, ride, and sail (water and horses are prep). Your prep dad taught you how to shoot (guns are prep).
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James's in London, but American preps are generally much more casual than their counterparts in the UK or on the continent. If you are lucky he may have some nice English tweeds you may come into and shirts with double cuffs from somewhere around St. Your dad bought his suits at Brooks brothers or had them made bespoke by his tailor. All generations dress the same with minor variations. Siblings raid each other's or their parents closets for prep clothes. As far as clothes its a manner of dressing that you are born into. Their offspring can be be found in select enclaves in Texas and California, but will always be aware of their roots in the British colonies where their ancestors were Royal Governors, Judges, Presidents of Harvard or Yale, Declaration of Independence signatories or other useful things such as merely rich. Preps are offspring of the old Anglo-American ruling class, whether or not they rule today. most of which are these: lack of self respect, low self-esteem (which is why they tend to disrespect and destroy the self-esteem of others who are not like them), insecurity,and alcoholism, narcotics/drugs (money = access) Preps are also mostly perceived as narcissistic with a superiority complex and quite possibly the fakest people you will ever meet in your entire life! There can be however a SMALL percentage of the prep population who are NOT what was described above, but in fact the opposite. A group of people who may not show but can have an incredibly large amount of emotional problems.
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Most of which do not earn their way to the top of the socio-economic ladder but end up there because of their parents therefore making their "significance" rather manufactured. Can be extremely shallow, and/or ignorant towards other people that are not within their socioeconomic status. Mostly noticed, in highschools, colleges, country clubs, and famous dinner parties. Preps can be found anywhere in the world, and are known as wealthy, upper middle-class people.