I walk around the sorority house area near my home, and I don’t remember ever seeing anything like those Lily Pulitzer prints on any of the Sorority women. I could see using one of those prints on a cosmetics case, or on a toddler dress, but that’s about it.
And I hadn’t heard of Jack Rogers sandals, either. They look well made, but so flat that my feet hurt just looking at them.
Where I live the Jack Rogers sandals are ubiquitous. I honestly don’t understand the desire to wear the EXACT same sandal that practically everyone else wears. Or the desire for teenagers and young women in their 20s wanting to dress in exactly the same stuff as their moms (and grandmoms). You can go to a function and see dozens of moms and daughters wearing them.
The Lily Pulitzer look, the shift dress, is very much designed for the WASPy body. If you’ve got curves, especially a booty, its not going to work on you.
I think the real Lily Pulitzer is rolling over in her grave. I think partnering with Target to do the cheap knockoff rendition with inferior quality of their own brand has cheapened the franchise.
Amusing (too soon?) look at the Lilly for Target debacle as a sequel to the movie “Mean Girls”:
http://dreadfullybusy.com/mean-girls-sequel-lilly-for-target/
D was shut out on the Target web site at 4am on Sunday. She wanted a dress and the pineapple sandals. She has a few “real” LP pieces and knew the quality would not be standard Lilly, but wanted these things for fun weekend things and the price was a real plus. We’ve been following the #lillyfortarget site on instagram for months and have had commercials inundating our shows, so I really expected more availability. I know it’s mean, but I hope the folks who bought for resale have to lower their prices to unload it and find it wasn’t worth their hoarding.
As for Jack Rogers, I wear them all summer and love them. The most comfortable ones are the Black Label ones that only come in a few colors. They have a smooth sole and don’t promote blisters like the standard Navajo sandal does when it’s new.
Another designer I don’t get is Tory Burch. The one year my D spent in boarding school, I think half the girls had TB flats with the big gold gaudy emblem. I just don’t see the need to be a lemming like that. Those flats were well over $200 and you could easily buy a different brand that fit just as well for a fraction of the price.
"As someone whose grandfather probably never owned a navy cashmere sweater, this sort of East Coast aspirational dress baffles me. The rules seem so arcane and stringent. "
It’s not aspirational. That’s the entire point. Preppy dress is practical and a little bit worn - NOT high-end designer (though there can certainly be high-end quality).
Jack Rogers was worn by Jackie Onassis - that’s where its preppy credentials come from!
Coincidentally, I just got a pair of Jack Rogers sandals (my first) - I’ve been haunting resale shops and found a pair in near-perfect condition. They aren’t flat though - they are a wedge heel.
I like Tory Burch; I wouldn’t call it preppy, but I think Tory Burch and Kate Spade have nice style. I don’t like the big logo in general, but I do have a pair of TB shoes with the logo (not the Revas) and they have been go-to shoes that I’ve worn with clients, for running around town, etc. I’ve had them resoled, which is about as preppy as it gets, LOL.
Wow I am clueless. Never heard of Jack Rogers sandals.
I’ve also never heard of Jack Rodgers sandals!
Sometimes I think we don’t know of these items because they are not our own personal style. If I see LP and it appeals to me, I find out/search more about it. If I see something and don’t care for it, I put it out of my mind and don’t look to find it.
Looking at Jack Rodgers images online this would be my case. They don’t look like my style at all so if I’ve ever seen/heard of them I haven’t absorbed the info because it’s not of interest to me.
Don’t know if I missed this upthread but they just said on the Nightly News that LP was made famous by Jackie O as well!!!
Best deal for Jack Rogers used to be from Piperlime when they had their discount Tuesdays. Unfortunately, they have discontinued those as of the end of January.
@pizzagirl - I get what you say about preppy and the practical and worn look, but I think that’s definitely the old style, old money type preppy. The preppy that has resurfaced more lately is less understated and definitely less cost conscious. More like teenagers wearing a $800 Canada Goose jacket not grandpa’s old Bean field coat.
I have several pair of Jacks that I lucked into at LastCall and Marshall’s. They are very well made and have lasted a long time, but I have a hard time justifying paying full retail for anything 
my family was not preppy, pretty salt of the earth farmer types. But grandpa had cashmere sweaters, and a camel hair top coat. I even had a few camel hair coats that I hated, cause all my friends wore ski jackets to school.,
Canada Goose is ridiculous in a temperate climate.
To me, that is the antithesis of true prep, because old money was not spending more than you had to, which
Is where the quality not quantity comes to play.
I’ve never heard of Jack Rogers sandals either- I checked with my D’s and they have but say they are not their style… I just checked out Vineyard Vines and can’t imagine either my 19 yo in So. Calif. or my 30 yo in Denver in those clothes. If this is preppy it just isn’t a thing here I guess. It is very interesting how much styles vary regionally. I was on campus at my son’s school this weekend. I feel like most of the more “preppy” dressers were from elsewhere
“Canada Goose is ridiculous in a temperate climate.
To me, that is the antithesis of true prep, because old money was not spending more than you had to, which
Is where the quality not quantity comes to play.”
True preps live in harsh climates 
I thought preps live in North East, and surfer dudes live in California.
Sorry I’ve been gone all day, but when I wrote that this wasn’t a fiasco it’s because (almost) no press is bad press. Even on this thread are people who’d never heard of LP and now they have because of this “fiasco.” Target sold out of its inventory so no harm there. Is anyone really going to stop shopping at Target because of this? Doubtful.
And for the record, I had never heard of Jack Rogers sandals and have heard of VV, though I don’t get it. A little too “dandy” for me.
By “aspirational” I mean a look or a lifestyle reflecting a social status that someone aspires to. Jackie-o being the ultimate aspirational icon. Used clothing or not. As you pointed out @pizzagirl, there are entire blogs dedicated to the rules of the studied nonchalant dress of the East Coast establishment. Who the heck reads these things? Not people who are wearing grandads old sweater and their brothers khakis. It’s people who aspire to the look and need detailed instruction and validation.
Surfer dudes and dudettes have their own weird thing: sheepskin boots worn with shorts. B-)