House in the House!

This summer I watched the entire House MD series. I had watched it when it first started, but I seldom have time to follow TV shows unless I own or rip them. That aside, I got quite obsessed with the show. When you rent all the DVDs, you can easily click from one episode to the next and waste hours of your time lost in that dramatic medical world. Plus, you get really attached to the characters and deeply involved in the plot. I have been waiting FOR EVER for the new season to start...and guess what? I MISSED the premiere!!! I had yoga after school yesterday with my sister and went to her house afterward until my mother picked me up late that night. The only thing is that my Big Sis lives in a house with other university students, and they don't pay for cable. And you know what that means. No TV. I didn't even know that House was on last night. But we did discuss it. She thought it started next week. WRONGO! Ugh. I guess I'll have to try to find it online.

But I digress. In the spirit of the new House season, let's look back at a Preppy Profile of Dr. Cuddy from the house series. Sure, House may make constant jabs at her "low cut" tops, but I have to hand it to her, watching all the episodes I was quite able to understand and appreciate her style. Girly, professional, sexy, and, dare I say, a tad preppy?

She always has her pearls!

Cute blazer!

There aren't many good pictures, but if you watched the show as closely as me you will have noticed her small obsession with bows (like many of the new tie-neck blouses in stores!). I (being an avid fashion designer), started adding this inspiration to some of my drawings...then I went to the mall a week later and what did I see? Exactly.

Preppy Profile: Reese's Pieces

I have been a big fan of Reese Witherspoon since I first saw the movie Legally Blonde. Admit it, you've seen the movie and love it too. But reesently (haha typo intended) I have seen and admired her style as well as her talent on camera. This outfit (above; blue oxford, white trousers and blue sash belt) is fresh, crisp, and classic. The kind of look that will never go out of style because no one wants it to. Of course, there is her critically acclaimed and all around ah-dorable yellow dress she wore a while back while sporting her tres popular bangs and stunning red carpet pose (the whole legs crossing thing is always a good choice). Below is Reese wearing everyone's favourite logo: The Pink Pony. And this post just would not be complete without special "props" to the perfect presidential "Clinton Worthy" pink outfit from LB2. If Reese (Elle) can't pull it off, nobody can!

Preppy Profile: The Lacoste Story

René LACOSTE entered the legend of tennis when he and his team-mates "The Musketeers", stole the Davis Cup away from the Americans for the first time, in 1927. Not forgetting his 3 French Open victories (1925, 1927 and the ROLAND-GARROS stadium in 1929), his two victories in Great Britain (WIMBLEDON 1925 and 1928) and two U.S. OPEN titles at Forest Hills (1926 and 1927).
René LACOSTE was born in France on 2nd July 1904 and died on 12th October 1996. The true story of the "Crocodile" begins in 1927. René LACOSTE liked to recount how his nickname became an emblem recognized throughout the world.
"I was nicknamed "the Alligator" by the American press, after I made a bet with the Captain of the French Davis Cup Team concerning a suitcase made from alligator skin. He promised to buy it for me if I won a very important match for our team.The public must have been fond of this nickname which conveyed the tenacity I displayed on the tennis courts, never letting go of my prey!"
"So my friend Robert GEORGE drew a 'crocodile' which I then had embroidered on the blazer I wore on the courts. An attentive spectator at René LACOSTE's Davis Cup matches was the winner of the BRITISH Womens golf title, Mademoiselle Simone THION de la CHAUME, who soon became his wife and constant support.
In 1933, René LACOSTE and André GILLIER, the owner and President of the largest French knitwear manufacturing firm of that time, set up a company to manufacture the logo-embroidered shirt. The champion had designed this for his own use on the tennis court, as well as a number of other shirts for tennis, golf and sailing - as can be seen in the first catalogue, produced in 1933.
To the best of our knowledge, this was the first time that a brand name appeared on the outside of an article of clothing - an idea which has since become extremely successful.
This shirt revolutionized mens sportswear and replaced the woven fabric, long-sleeved, starched classic shirts.The first LACOSTE shirt was white, slightly shorter than its counterparts, had a ribbed collar, short sleeves with ribbed bands and was made of a light knitted fabric called "Jersey petit piqué".
Today, it continues to offer the same quality, comfort and solidity on which it built its name and which constitute its uniqueness.

Preppy Profile: Taylor Townsend

I don't know if anyone remembers the uber-preppy Taylor Townsend from the popular TV show the OC...but she's one of my alltime favourite characters! Here is a little cheers to the high-strung yet perky Taylor!

A typical Taylor outfit. She's got her pearls, her polo, her cable-knit sweater. She looks cute and put together to say the least. She is quite funny though!


Ryan Atwood: Taylor?
Taylor Townsend: Yeah.
Ryan Atwood: What are you doing tonight?
Taylor Townsend: Oh, I'm updating my blog. It's a kind of Felicity by way of Anaïs Nin, the erotic memoirs of soulful college girl...
Ryan Atwood: Taylor, tonight, what are you doing?
Taylor Townsend: Oh. Blog schmog.
Ryan Atwood: Is that a yes?
Taylor Townsend: Yes! It is a yes squared, in all caps, with an exclamation mark and a smiley-faced emoticon.

Summer Roberts: Taylor, you got married!
Taylor Townsend: It was Paris. It seemed like the thing to do.

Taylor Townsend: Getting a man is like capturing a wily silverback gorilla in the Ugandan highlands. You see, nature is telling the gorilla to stay in the wild, but both you and I know that that gorilla would be much happier back in the zoo on a normal feeding schedule. But sometimes he's just gotta roar and beat his chest before he'll let you shoot him with a tranq dart.