Top Ten Preppy Essentials: #3 Bold Chinos

Rugby University Chinos, $70

This list of Preppy Essentials wouldn’t be complete unless we made a point to promote the most powerful weapon in the prepster’s arsenal: Color. A well-dressed prepster isn’t afraid to play around with color and shade. And there isn’t a place where he finds an outlet for his color obsession more than his chinos. Pink, purple, orange, green, and white are all colors found on the bottom halves of men all over The Hamptons and Nantucket, and using our deductive reasoning, we’ve been able to conclude that these are the preferred styles of the preppy male.

In all colors of the pastel rainbow

But there is more to the stylish prep than just coloring, for it is not hue alone that makes the chinos bold. The stylish prep knows that the fit is just as much of a statement as the tint and this is why his chinos are slim and hit right at, or before, the ankle. The fit mixed with the color is what makes the look, and that’s why the prep would turn to Rugby for chinos that fulfill his criteria. They’re slim, but not tight, and have just the right colors to give him that little bit of extra umph that he needs when he is summering.

Get your pair of Rugby University Chinos for $70 at Rugby by Ralph Lauren.