What Is The Plaid Horse?

[Rackonteur]

Khaki is a color AND a fabric.

[rockonxox]

Sorry. Trying to keep it as cliff notes as possible. Point being, khaki does not equal chino unless the chino is khaki in color They are 100% not the same type of fabric - chino is light weight and khaki is a heaver weight.

[Mango20]

@rockonxox

but khaki is a color and can refer to anything with that color

…like my “Desert Khaki” Subaru Crosstrek!

[Scribbler]

@Impractical_Horsewoman

Yes, I sort of think of it as the Vineyard Vines aesthetic (a “traditional preppy” company that is relatively new, but sells the image, versus the decaying L.L. Bean and Brooks Brothers wardrobe celebrated in the handbook).

This is what I meant by paisley being a preppy pattern. Hideous, yet a classic prep brand. Which I guess is part of the point–only someone with money can get away with it… https://www.lillypulitzer.com/kristen-swing-dress/002262.html?dwvar_002262_color=4411IX

Yup. I recall reading a long article in a mainstream print magazine circa 1999 all about Lily Pulitzer dresses because it was written by a lovely young woman who had just bailed from our notoriously harsh grad program. It was clear from the article she was basically writing about her extended family. I stuck it through and became a college professor because I didn’t have the cultural capital to segue into high end lifestyle journalism

Years later on a white sand beach in Fiji I recall remarking to my companion how good all the clashing bright colors of swimwear sailboards kayaks beach chairs looked in that brilliant environment when they’d be hideous elsewhere. I think a lot of the green pink red garish end 9f “prep style” is beach wear inspired.

[Impractical_Horsewoman]

All of those colors look absolutely horrible with my olive skin, but I have a feeling they’re not designed to look good with my complexion! Golf and sailing clearly inspire quite a bit of prep fashion, although the red trousers are actually Oxfordbridge-inspired from the UK:

In defence of red trousers - Country Life

As a pre-Internet writer, I always assumed talent would get me a coveted job in lifestyle journalism to support my novelist’s career. That was a bit of a rude awakening that family connections had much to do with a writer’s ability to snag such cushy assignments.

[Scribbler]

@Impractical_Horsewoman

All of those colors look absolutely horrible with my olive skin, but I have a feeling they’re not designed to look good with my complexion! Golf and sailing clearly inspire quite a bit of prep fashion, although the red trousers are actually Oxfordbridge-inspired from the UK:
https://www.countrylife.co.uk/country-life/in-defence-of-red-trousers-83921

As a pre-Internet writer, I always assumed talent would get me a coveted job in lifestyle journalism to support my novelist’s career. That was a bit of a rude awakening that family connections had much to do with a writer’s ability to snag such cushy assignments.

There are whole stores I avoid because not a single color suits me. Talbot’s comes to mind. I have pale olive skin.

Yes, I think golf is another sport where men of a certain age enjoy antic colors and patterns.

I don’t mind any of this, it’s just all far away and on a different planet than my life

Though I am regularly in the supermarket in faded Pikeurs and dusty Ariat sidegore paddock boots which might look Equestrienne if anyone who saw me evrn knew those were riding clothes.

[Impractical_Horsewoman]

Sometimes I creep strangers out in the grocery store when I see them in boots and leggings, and I try to figure out if it’s fashion or if they came from a barn as I give them a once-over.