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In style blogs and magazines, fashionistas have begun bandying about a new term: prepster. Is this merger between preppy and hipster the new style that retailers are rushing to embrace?

Lisa Birnbach's True Prep, the long-awaited sequel to her 1980 opus, The Official Preppy Handbook, looks at how the prep lifestyle has weathered the past thirty years. Although upper class styles in the U.S. seem to be more influential than ever, the question arises: have the old standards of taste and decorum been replaced by something completely -- and incompatibly -- different?

As back to school shopping heads for the home stretch, this frugal father of a boy in pre-K and girl in second grade wanted to alert you to a few larger-ticket items that you might be overspending on, and provide you with some money-saving alternatives. Backpacks Buy this: Camo and Pink Camo...

When L.L. Bean first announced its plan to launch a hip new clothing line targeting 20- and 30-somethings last August, I quickly joined the chorus of voices crying foul. After all, Bean isn't just a brand; it's an institution, a torchbearer, a monument to a bygone lifestyle. Along with Brooks...

The commercial printing industry is ripe for M&A. First of all, the market is highly fragmented, with 30,000 printers in the United States. About 400 companies control less than 30% of the market. Next, the printing industry has been undergoing significant change, as print media has declined...

With preppy clothing going through yet another resurgence and camping coming into vogue as a vacation option, L.L. Bean has embarked on a business decision that could be incredibly lucrative ... or completely devastating: it is changing its design.According to a recent article in The New York...

If you're a parent, you may want to put your kids somewhere safe and sit down with a stiff drink in your hand before reading this list by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission of toy hazard recalls dating back to 1974. It's quite a shocking list, topped by many lead paint standard violations...