If we take into account that in fashion everything returns and that the human being is the only animal capable of tripping twice in the same stone, our way of dressing is perfectly understood.As much as we condemn and curse an aesthetic, such as that of the 80s, we will fall back into it, as is already happening since last winter.And in 2022 what returns is the preppy style.

The explanation is simple: since the winter of 2019 the end of the streetwear is announced and, as in everything, when a concept is exhausted the natural movement is to turn to the opposite pole;classical elegance in this case.But in what we reach that other extreme, we must cross an intermediate plane in which both trends intermingle until we get rid of one and definitely embrace the other.And this is where we arrive at the preppy that already begins to penetrate the streets to judge by the attendees to the last international catwalks, the same ones that have copied the galleries of the best streetstyle.

What is the preppy style?Where does it come, where is it going and why now fits so congruently?The term and the look emerged in the US.UU., but those responsible for turning it into a milestone in fashion history were the Japanese.

On the one hand, the birth of the word is in the United States and the National Collegiate Athletic Association, known as Ivy League and composed of the eight oldest private universities in North America: Yale, Princeton, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard andPennsylvania.These universities offered a pre -university course to which the children of the most influential and wealthy families in the country were pointed out, and which began to be known as Preparatory.In the 50s, firms j.Press and Brooks Brothers, with their sweaters and pants in striking shades, their Chinese pants, their oxford shirts in pastel tones with button on the neck and its ties and scarves with the colors of each university.And from prep and from there, to prepy.In 1965, the Japanese Teruyoshi Hayashida arrived with his camera to these universities and began to photograph all his looks, which he gathered in one of the most iconic books in the preappy world, 'Take Ivy' and for which we now remember all that aesthetic.

What defines this style?The prepositions were the junior version of the yuppies, they were dad children who were cool.One of their ways to claim and get pawn was the clothes, of course, and used it to skip the codes of the uniform: they mixed a American sweatshirt, bomber with jeans, white socks with moccasins...Sport and formality.Crazy for the time and a very convenient aesthetic line for this stage in which we transition from streetwear to classical elegance.

Firmas como Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger, Gant, la mencionada Brooks Brothers o la más reciente Kent & Curwen han creado su imagen de marca y han cultivado el preppy desde su fundación, pero desde hace un par de temporadas prácticamente todas las firmas se adscriben a él lanzando sobre la pasarela infinidad de pantalones chinos, camisas Oxford, polos de rugby, chalecos de punto, mocasines con calcetines blancos e incontables chaquetas varsity, una de las grandes señas de identidad de los preppies.Of course, according to current aesthetics codes, which sails streetwear with oversize cuts.

In the case of autumn / winter 2021 - 2022, we have seen several examples in signatures of the moment such as Bode, Etro, Louis Vuitton, Fendi, Isabel Marant, Aimé Leon Dore, Rhude or Boss.And if we move to spring / summer 2022, the trend continues in houses such as Giorgio Armani, Mans CONEPT, Paul Smith, Dior Men, Prada or Ernest W.Baker.

Did you think this would stay alone on the catwalk?Rapper Tyler, The Creator, one of the top musical and aesthetic referents of today, is perhaps the greatest exponent of this revival.Use tweed suits, Criquet style sweaters and pastel colors as basics from your closet. Harry Styles se ha convertido en fan acérrimo de los chalecos de punto, las camisas Oxford oversize y los pantalones de pinzas, por no hablar de David Beckham haciendo bandera constante de su marca, Kent & Curwen, o el estudiante de la prestigiosa escuela Eton, Eddie Redmayne, que hace uso de esta estética en el día a día.Although there is someone who has created great stir when placing an eminently preappy look is Jacob Elordi, the protagonist of Euphoria.The Warsity Jacket as a whole, pictures and moccasins with white socks that he chose to attend the Jimmy Fallon program has raised countless comments inside and outside social networks.

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