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  2. Preppy - Wikipedia

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    The term preppy derives from the private college-preparatory schools that some American upper class and upper middle class children attend. [2] The term preppy is commonly associated with the Ivy League and broader group of oldest universities in the Northeast as well as the prep schools which brought students to them, [3] since traditionally a primary goal in attending a prep school was ...

  3. Manga iconography - Wikipedia

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    Japanese manga has developed a visual language or iconography for expressing emotion and other internal character states. This drawing style has also migrated into anime, as many manga are adapted into television shows and films and some of the well-known animation studios are founded by manga artists.

  4. The Story of Pretty Goldilocks - Wikipedia

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    Alternate translations to the name of the tale are Princess Goldenhair, [10] The Fair with Golden Hair [11] [12] The Fair Maid with Golden Locks, [13] or Fair Goldilocks. [14] Fair is an English word associated with beauty, [15] [16] and it keeps the connection between light-colored hair and good qualities, like kindness and beauty.

  5. Wallpaper - Wikipedia

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    Wallpapers can come plain as "lining paper" to help cover uneven surfaces and minor wall defects, "textured", plain with a regular repeating pattern design, or with a single non-repeating large design carried over a set of sheets. The smallest wallpaper rectangle that can be tiled to form the whole pattern is known as the pattern repeat.

  6. 1980s in fashion - Wikipedia

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    David Byrne wearing a preppy style seersucker blazer and white Oxford shirt, 1986. In response to the punk fashion of the mid-late 1970s, [13] there was a throwback to the 1950s Ivy League style. This revival came to be definitively summarized in an enormously popular paperback released in 1980: The Official Preppy Handbook.

  7. Liberty spikes - Wikipedia

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    A British punk with liberty spikes in 1986. Liberty spikes is hair styled into long, thick, upright spikes. The style, now associated with the punk subculture, is so named because of the resemblance to the diadem crown worn by the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World), itself inspired by the Roman goddess Libertas and god Sol Invictus.