As Massachusetts is a hotbed of excellent schools, I thought I would continue my series of reality-based blogging. I excluded the co-ed schools, because the fetishistic mythology in the blogosphere seems to wax delusional about boys-only academies in particular. Brooks Brothers and Ralph Lauren imagery is happily absorbed and regurgitated as factual in the same way the Barbour catalog scenery is assumed to be real and on-going if one just knew the right person and could just get the right invitation to join. Again, it's mostly nonsense. Private schools very often make horrible decisions like everyone else.
Criteria for my research:
1. Had to be a private boys-only school
2. Had to have a daily jacket and tie requirement
3. Had to be in Massachusetts
Criteria for my research:
1. Had to be a private boys-only school
2. Had to have a daily jacket and tie requirement
3. Had to be in Massachusetts
...just in case anybody thought that this kind of stuff is real.
What is overwhelmingly the most popular style of shoe for young lads at the best Massachusetts boys-only schools?
I'm not joking. Boat shoes are a distant second, but suede bucks, loafers, or more English style lace-up shoes are rare. I'm not saying that this is bad either, I'm pointing it out to dispel some of the misunderstandings. I was recently told via email that I was wrong because the information I was conveying was not corroborated by 1980's "preppy" movies and did not have specific mention in The Official Preppy Handbook, an eye-rolling chuckle that is now decades old but still referenced piously as manifesto by young perverts. I own a copy of several birding handbooks, but I don't dress like the birds in the descriptions... same for my mushroom handbook.
