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80s Party Costume Ideas: Preppy

To capture the essence of the classic 80s preppy look, we highly recommend The Official Preppy Handbook - it is funny and scarily dead on in its descriptions of this culture sub-set.

For this 80s party costume, you can mix and match lots of different pieces - whatever you have on hand or can borrow.  So many of the preppy-style clothes have come back or never went out of style and so are readily had new in the stores.

Here are some ideas:

• Lacoste polo or Polo polo in a bright color, preferably pink or green, with the collar up

• Khaki knee-length skirt or plaid wrap skirt

• Khaki pants

• Grosgrain belt

• Sweater tied around shoulders

• Tretorn tennis shoes or penny loafers

• Understated hair and makeup

• Add-a-bead necklace

• Anything Lilly

• Headband

Pretty in Pink offers some good examples of the high school preppy look in the "richies."  Not that you need any excuse to re-watch that fabulous movie, but if you did, there it is.  It is research.

Like Totally 80s has this question: how do you really spell "preppie," or it is "preppy?"

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