photography
courtesy
of
everett
collection
clockwise from top left: Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw in the 1970 movie Love Story, which popularized the term preppy, along with its collegiate style; Christopher Makepeace in 1980's Chicago-set My Bodyguard;
Timothy Hutton and Elizabeth McGovern in Ordinary People, a prime example of Midwestern prep style in Lake Forest in the 1970s; Rebecca De Mornay and Tom Cruise as the ultimate Chicago preps in 1983's Risky Business.
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