Decoder Ring - How Preppy Became Streetwear
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Slate Audio
4.6 • 25.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
We bring you a special episode from the Articles of Interest podcast hosted by Avery Trufelman about the incredible reach and adaptability of preppy clothes. It’s a story about the great modernizer of Ivy style, Ralph Lauren, and how he and his label, Polo, were themselves modernized by customers who helped push preppy in a whole new direction, from the runway to the streets.
We encourage you to listen to the entire American Ivy series from Radiotopia.
Articles of Interest is created by Avery Trufelman. It’s edited by Kelly Prime, mixed and mastered by Ian Coss, fact checked by Jessia Siriano, with music by Avery, Rhae Royal, Sasami, and the Beazlebubs, the Tufts University Acapella Group.
Decoder Ring is produced by Willa Paskin and Katie Shepherd. We had mixing help on this episode from Sam Kim. Derek John is Slate’s Executive Producer of narrative podcasts. Merritt Jacob is Senior Technical Director.
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| 0:00.0 | It's time to reboot your credit card with Apple card. |
| 0:04.0 | Now through December 25th, get 5% daily cashback on products at Apple with a new Apple card, |
| 0:11.5 | including a new iPhone 14 or Apple Watch Ultra. |
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| 0:21.8 | you buy. |
| 0:23.3 | Apply now in the wallet app on iPhone and start using it right away. |
| 0:27.9 | Subject to credit approval. |
| 0:29.7 | Simply financing through Apple card monthly installments is ineligible to earn 5% back. |
| 0:36.2 | Additional exclusions apply. |
| 0:38.2 | Valid only on qualifying US purchases for new Apple card customers who open an account |
| 0:43.9 | and use it from December 1st to 25th, 2022 at Apple. |
| 0:49.1 | Visit apple.co-save-five for more details. |
| 1:02.2 | When a retrupplement was a teenager, she bristled at her high school's strict dress code. |
| 1:06.9 | It was like, you gotta cover up your shoulders, you gotta wear skirts that are certain length, |
| 1:13.4 | no writing on your shirts, no jeans. |
| 1:15.8 | I think boys had to wear collared shirts, and the path of least resistance was to just |
| 1:20.4 | wear preppy clothes, just like do it. |
| 1:22.8 | But she didn't like preppy clothes. |
| 1:24.8 | I was like, no, I'm going to take the path of most resistance and I wore just ridiculous |
| 1:32.1 | things. |
| 1:33.1 | These cowboy boots with this flapper dress and these long hippie beads just all together |
| 1:39.6 | just so I can avoid looking preppy and I just, I did not like the fashion, I thought it |
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