Lmrjfud
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Well Donkey, now you’ve gone and done it…As funny as that is, it feels like hubris for me to call them that.
I spent the last few years of HS at a boarding school in the northern Philly burbs during the late 80s. Princeton Day School was one of our rivals and I had to play against them in football, basketball, and baseball. Driving towards the PDS campus area was a surreal Pleasantville experience with everybody looking like they'd stepped out of a LL Bean/Eddie Bauer/Lands End/JCrew photo shoot. It was like someone opened a catalog, dumped water on it, and they all came to life and multiplied like Gremlins. Same coats, same backpacks, same Bean boots. It was the weirdest thing in the world. I didn't get that same feeling against some of the other schools we played (Shipley, Jenkintown, George School, St. Andrews, Westtown, Friends Central, Hun School, etc.).
Thinking about that experience led me to go check out the local LL Bean. I ended up picking up a denim shirt. More importantly, I ended up wearing my OG brown CXL Higgins Mill boots in their special "extra wrinkly" make up and in need of some conditioning.
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Also, I noticed about a week ago that we'd passed up the Alden group in posts. Last year, we didn't pass them until right around the end of June. Passing them in the middle of January as opposed to the middle of the year feels like the Styleforum world is getting back into balance. Congrats on your loquaciousness all you filthy barnweasels!
I graduated from Princeton Day School in ‘83.
However, I was a “farm hick” from outside of town so I never did quite fit into the Princeton mold.
Probably the biggest impact that going to PDS had on me was getting classically trained in making Nakashima furniture.