Dorm Decor: The Punk-Prep Connection
Yesterday the wildly popular website Proper Kid Problems kindly gave us a shout-out, and so we’re returning the favor with a little post aimed at the college guys out there. I saw this page in a design magazine and thought it would provide some affordable inspiration for a dorm room — assuming you like vintage punk rock and Anglophilia.
As a side note, according to “The Official Preppy Handbook” there is a punk-prep connection. Whether or not this was true in 1980, it certainly can be right now.
First, get some punk rock posters and tear-outs from magazines and plaster the walls with them. Then, for contrast, do a Google Image search for random bits of Anglophilia — The Duke Of Wellington, The Tower of London, The Tenth Hussars — download the JPEGs and send them to the printer. Then affix to the walls alongside Sid Vicious and Johnny Rotten.
Raid your local thrift store for an old tea pot and some cups. Lipton will probably be your lowest-cost option for the actual tea.
Finally, for the tartan element, get a blanket to cover the bed.
For additional pops of tartan (“pop-tarts”), leave your boxer shorts scattered all over the place.
It is dorm room, after all.
Awesome write up. Any idea where a college kid like me can get those gold frames?
Frames plural? I only see one gold one.
You definitely want to haunt the thrift stores and flea markets. Frames new, even simple ones, are really pricey.
Christian makes a good point. I would add that maybe you could get an unloved chipped up Victorian one and paint the flaws or the whole thing over.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/22/nyregion/preppy-punks.html
While we can’t prove they don’t exist, I am fairly certain we can prove that they shouldn’t.
The Agnostic Front flyer seems a bit out of place.