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Celebrating the Preppy Lifestyle and it's sensibilities

PREPPY CHILDREN ESSENTIALS

Besides our parents, grandparents and our minds, children are our greatest assets.  They like ourselves should look the best they can in a multitude of situations.  After all, they are miniature versions of us and our value system. 
I've searched about to find some essential items for both boys and girls.  The kind of pieces that make you glad you've decided to bring them into the world.  Hail to the little preppies.


Bailey Boys Outfits over at www.baileyboys.com









Vineyard Vines is a great place to dress the kids, and you can be assured that the outfits will be preppy without pretension.

Girls Tiki Dress


Little girls Seascape Dress


Toddler Busy Bee Skort


Boys Pique Polo


Girls Classic Pique Polo


Boys Seersuckers Pants


Girls Ruffled Polo Dress


Girls Martha's Vineyard Signs Flip Flops


We all know the whimsical beauty in Lilly Pulitzer's outfits for women but I've found a few pieces meant just for your little tots.  www.lillypulitzer.com



Lilly Little Boys Atlantique Polo and Shorts


Lilly's Little Lilly Shift


Lilly's Rory Cardigan Ruffles


Shayna Maxi Dress....toooo adorable

Here is some Ralph Lauren.  I'm always amazed at the fact that manufacturer's can do they things they do with little amounts of fabric to make stunning outfits.


Infant Girls Cotton Cable Cardigan, how sweeeeet


Ralph Madras Dress



Boys Big Pony Polo with USA Flag


Baby Polos, (I'm giggling now)




(Ah, little miss preppy!)


Ralph Lauren layered look with boys Rugby.  Only Ralph could pull off such a contemplative subject matter.


(I have no words for this one)

I ran across these other items that I felt were a must.


Girls Lacoste Polo Dress


Jack Purcell Canvas Sneakers


Monogrammed Clogs over at www.2preppygirls.com


Madras Wristlet over at www.threechickadees.com





Posted By O. Cavanaugh

JACKIE BOUVIER PICTORIAL






I've been thinking about Jackie O lately.  Maybe it's because I've been noticing the fashion, attitude and lack of grace with today's mainstream.  There seems to be a lack of class with regards to young ladies today.  The flavor of the moment is to dress as scantily as possible.  Leaving nothing to the imagination is the new cool.  I feel a since of loss and a longing for the women that I grew up knowing.  My grandmother is to me the epitome of an era that seems loss to history.  She herself grew up in the time of miss social grace, style and preppy fashion herself, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis.

Jacqueline Lee Bouvier was born in Southampton, New York, to Wall Street stock broker John Vernou Bouvier III and Janet Norton Lee. Jacqueline had a younger sister, Caroline Lee (known as Lee), born in 1933. Her parents divorced in 1940 and her mother married Standard Oil heir Hugh D. Auchincloss, Jr. in 1942. Through Janet's second marriage, Jacqueline gained a half sister and a half brother, Janet and James Auchincloss.  Her mother's family, the Lees, were mostly of Irish descent, and her father, John Vernou Bouvier III, was descended from French and English people. Michel Bouvier, Jacqueline's great-great-grandfather, was born in France and was a contemporary of Joseph Bonaparte and Stephen Girard. He was a Philadelphia-based cabinetmaker, carpenter, merchant and real estate speculator.  Michel's wife, Louise Vernou was the daughter of John Vernou, a French emigre tobacconist and Elizabeth Clifford Lindsay, an American born woman. Jacqueline's grandfather, John Vernou Bouvier Jr., fashioned a more noble ancestry for his family in his vanity family history book Our Forebears. Recent scholarship and the research done by Jacqueline's cousin, John H. Davis, in his book The Bouviers: Portrait of an American Family, have disproved most of these fantasy lineages.
She spent her early years in New York City and East Hampton, New York at the Bouvier family estate, "Lasata".  Following their parents' divorce, Jacqueline and Lee divided their time between their mother's homes in McLean, Virginia and Newport, Rhode Island and their father's homes in New York City and Long Island. She attended the Chapin School in New York City.
At a very early age she became an enthusiastic equestrienne,[5] and horse-riding would remain a lifelong passion. As a child, she also enjoyed drawing, reading and lacrosse.
Bouvier pursued her secondary education at the Holton-Arms School in Bethesda, Maryland (1942–1944) and Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut (1944–1947).
When she made her society debut in 1947, Hearst columnist Igor Cassini dubbed her Debutante of the Year.
Bouvier spent her first two years of college at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, and spent her junior year (1949–1950) in France at the University of Grenoble and the Sorbonne in a program through Smith College.  Upon returning home to the United States, she transferred to George Washington University in Washington, D.C., graduating in 1951 with a bachelor of arts degree in French literature.  Bouvier's college graduation coincided with her sister's high school graduation, and the two spent the summer of 1951 on a trip through Europe. This trip was the subject of Kennedy's only autobiographical book, One Special Summer, which is also the only one of her publications to feature her drawings.
Following her graduation, Bouvier was hired as the Inquiring Photographer for The Washington Times-Herald. The position required her to pose witty questions to individuals chosen at random on the street and take their pictures to be published alongside selected quotations from their responses in the newspaper.

Of course she is best known as the first lady to President Kennedy.  I don't want to bore you anymore.  Jackie is far more loved for her style and grace.  A grace displayed in the legendary way she handled the assassination of her husband John.

I want to now share a pictorial taken from the Kennedy Family Forums of our only royal princess.....Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, enjoy.






























































































































































































































































































































































































-Posted by O. Cavanaugh