New School Year Begins, Prep Parents as Smug as Ever

   With the new school year comes the arrival of beautiful fall leaves, buzzing excitement about seeing friends, and, of course, the brief overrunning of campus by smug, upper-middle-class parents of preps. We at the Exonian went around to talk to some of these favorite customers of Vineyard Vines.

   “After all, first comes Exeter, then comes Harvard, right?” one Ray-Ban bespectacled father with salmon trousers and a clean haircut told the Exonian staff while simultaneously raising his flute of Rosé.

   “Yes! I can’t wait for my Muffy to be the school president and the star of the model UN, debate and mock trial teams!” one mother in a vintage Lilly Pulitzer dress replied while reaching into her Longchamp bag to get out her Brooks Brothers keychain.

    “It’s so thrilling to see all these brilliant kids here, just talking and expressing themselves!” one parent of a boys’ lacrosse recruit commented.

      It’s comforting to know that while the years may change, one thing never will: the ripeness of the dreams of prep parents.