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So for a casual day as a prep, what might you wear? Well the first basic thing that
goes with the pearls that I mentioned earlier, is a Polo shirt. And, Polo shirts are really
popular, it's not only preps who wear them these days, but the key to a preppy-style
Polo shirt is that it really shouldn't be too tight, it really should fit properly.
It should just drape on the body. You don't want to be vulgar, you don't want to be popping
out. What you want is, is just a nice drape of the classic shirt. Polo of course references
the sport played in England by the class that this entire trend comes from. So that's a
first basic. The second basic is the Oxford shirt, once again, referencing England, and
this is a sort of shinier version of it, this is almost not even preppy because it's shiny,
but, I wanted to show you, it's a nice blouse, it's a very classic shape, and it's a button-down,
which is the other real basic staple for preppy fashion during the day. The last piece of
basic preppy fashion is the cable-knit sweater. And so you can see here, it's in one of the
colors we talked about. The blue, you can see the cable knits. And once again, this
should fit, it shouldn't be baggy, but it shouldn't be tight either. Fit is really everything,
it needs to be very neat, and you might see this in a sweater set which would be a shell
underneath and a cardigan over that. And that's really the basics and these three looks are
good for men as well. There's a certain androgynous element to prep, especially when it's casual.