As someone who grew up thinking of “The Official Preppy Handbook" as a bible rather than a gag gift, there is something calming about these seersucker and madras pillows from Silk Trading Company.
I swoon at the thought of a bright, white sun porch or patio covered in the fabrics of my desperately acclimated Jewish youth.
I love using suiting materials on furniture and the like. I love seeing things that shouldn’t be. It’s so Dada: the idea of a club chair done in pinstripes or a headboard in camelhair wool.
Now, I’ll admit, there is a bitter sweet feeling left when it comes to the masses’ appropriation of classic style. Sure it’s great when people finally see how masculine a man can look in a 
I just spent lunch searching for a seersucker suit. They are already sold out in my size -- very popular this summer.
I think preppy style and Summer go hand in hand, like Biff and Muffy...
I'm semi-surprised this seems to be the first home retail iteration of it.
But please, (as in all good things) "Prep" in moderation! So, no chairs with cotton sweaters draped over the shoulders. :)
(ps-- have always loved "mattress ticking" fabrics for the same summery reason.)
so is this really that recent a development (i mean in home retail)? it seems like pottery barn, for example, has had the seersucker/madras/mattress ticking thing going on for spring/summer for as long as i can remember.
p.s. - hey p(too), there's your beloved urinal at last! and the true reason behind the urinal taboo in residential bathrooms: after this piece was first exhibited, no one would install a urinal in their bathroom anymore. who wants to confront a cynical, absurd, dadaist statement first thing in the morning on a daily basis?
sooj-- re-- "who wants to confront a cynical, absurd, dadaist statement first thing in the morning on a daily basis?"
I already go to work every day, so this would be nothing new. ;)
sooj--
I think Pottery Barn and others have toyed with "Summer Prep", but I can't recall and actual Madras Plaid or seersucker in recent seasons. And I am frighteningly familiar with their merchandise.
and = an
p(too) - wow, work hasn't been treating you too well lately, has it? sorry to hear that.
and re the seersucker, madras, etc.--as always, i bow to your (far) superior expertise.
sooj--
You are kind to call my comprehensive knowledge of retail stock "expertise".
The therapist calls it something else entirely. :)