Top Ten Preppy Essentials: #10 The Preppy Handbook

To start off our Preppy Essentials, what could be better than The Official Preppy Handbook? It’s the glue that will hold the other nine items together–not to mention provide you tons of awesome, and humorous, advice. But seriously, this book is an institution. Ask your parents about it and we’re sure that they’ll roll their eyes and laugh, but that doesn’t mean they didn’t own a copy back in the day.

If your parents aren’t familiar with The Preppy Handbook, then just ask Club Monaco menswear designer Timothy Farah who credited the book as his introduction to fashion. So go ahead and get yourself a copy–it’s a hell of a lot cheaper than Take Ivy. Well, that was until they decided to re-release it…

Our favorite page from the book

The Official Preppy Handbook, new and used from $11 on Amazon.

Pre-Order Take Ivy, $24 at Amazon.

“Top Ten Preppy Essentials: #10 The Preppy Handbook”