The Yuppie Handbook 1984 Calendar
The Official British Yuppie Handbook, 1984 Vintage Book - $250. Or 4 interest-free payments of $62.50. By The Official British Yuppie Handbook, 1984 Vintage Book $250. Or 4 interest-free payments of $62.50. The British version of the State-of-the-Art Manual for the Young Urban Professional, 1984. So odd to realize that the 'Yuppie Handbook' came out in the mid-'80s- a more aggressive and American follow-on to the British 'Sloane Ranger Handbook', and a marker for the transformation of the low-key, reticent, old-money preppy class of 'The Official Preppy Handbook' into corporate strivers.
Yuppies, of course, for Young Urban Professionals, and the one true guide to their carefully hectic life-style is The Yuppie Handbook (Long Shadow Books; $4.95). Tongue firmly in chic, Authors Marissa Piesman and Marilee Hartley tirelessly chronicle the ways of the Yuppie, along with its lesser-known subspecies the Guppie (Gay Urban Professional) and Puppie (Pregnant Urban Professional).
Yuppies 1980s
Free boot xbox 360. Yuppie or Yuppy pl. Yuppies: (hot; new name for Young Urban Professionals): A person of either sex who meets the following criteria: 1) resides in or near one of the major cities; 2) claims to be between the ages of 25 and 45; 3) lives on aspirations of glory, prestige, recognition, fame, social status, power, money or any and all combinations of the above; 4) anyone who b Yuppie or Yuppy pl. Yuppies: (hot; new name for Young Urban Professionals): A person of either sex who meets the following criteria: 1) resides in or near one of the major cities; 2) claims to be between the ages of 25 and 45; 3) lives on aspirations of glory, prestige, recognition, fame, social status, power, money or any and all combinations of the above; 4) anyone who brunches on the weekend or works out after work. The term crosses ethnic, sexual, geographic - even class - boundaries. Adj.: Yuppiesque, Yuppie-like, Yuppish. from book's text.
Yuppies History
So odd to realize that the 'Yuppie Handbook' came out in the mid-'80s- a more aggressive and American follow-on to the British 'Sloane Ranger Handbook', and a marker for the transformation of the low-key, reticent, old-money preppy class of 'The Official Preppy Handbook' into corporate strivers. Other reviews have noted that the cultural styles of the Yuppie Handbook are, thirty-odd years later, so mainstream as to seem totally natural. It's odd to think about finding foodie obsessions and min So odd to realize that the 'Yuppie Handbook' came out in the mid-'80s- a more aggressive and American follow-on to the British 'Sloane Ranger Handbook', and a marker for the transformation of the low-key, reticent, old-money preppy class of 'The Official Preppy Handbook' into corporate strivers. Other reviews have noted that the cultural styles of the Yuppie Handbook are, thirty-odd years later, so mainstream as to seem totally natural.
It's odd to think about finding foodie obsessions and minimalist interiors strange or funny here in the Year Seventeen, when we take those things as givens for the educated, cultured, urban upper-middle class and as perfectly ordinary aspirations for middle-middles. And, yes, back in the Long Ago I did pore over this book for social cues and catalog addresses- not ashamed to admit it, either. Anyway- funny, witty, and a look back at how contemporary class attitudes formed.