Getty Images If a Sloane sounds a bit like a preppy—or a preppy sounds a bit like a Sloane—that's probably not an accident.
Sloanes had bought by her tricks for poshos any other users of fergie and.
They had been named after a part of London that only a fraction of them could still afford to live near.
Wealth, and an upper class, although not necessarily aristocratic, social position is a pre-requisite.