Today’s Prep Style Wouldn’t Exist Without Black Culture

From 2003 to 2006, there was a skirt. The Skirt had a chokehold on the girls at my Connecticut prep school. It was usually folded in a stack right next to the classic polos on the shelves of Abercrombie & Fitch, soaking in the brand’s musky men’s cologne Fierce as it wafted through the air. (Or so I assumed. I was Black and asthmatic, and thus unwilling to set foot in early-aughts-era Abercrombie due to both company policy and my own health.) Technically, The Skirt violated the most frequently enforced tenants of our school dress code: It was too short,… Read Full Article