Just when you thought it was safe to get back in your khakis. Three decades after “The Official Preppy Handbook” was first unleashed into bookstores, a follow-up called “True Prep” is in the works — hoping to reignite preppy fervor, update the mindset and explain just what it means to be a Chip or a Muffy in a Barack world. The original volume, a slim, plaid-covered paperback that poked fun at the gin-soaked polo-shirt and loafer-wearing set, started out as a piquant bit of mockery but, like “Liar’s Poker,” a bestseller about bond traders, and “Wall Street,” the movie in which Michael Douglas declared greed to be good, it ended up being adopted as a kind of guidebook for those who wanted in. The book sold 1.3 million copies, many to aspiring prepsters who wanted to know where to shop, what to wear and how to fully appreciate what it called “the virtues of pink and green.” Among those buyers was Chip Kidd, one of the industry’s best-known book designers, who loved the original as a teenager growing up near Reading, Pa., where he attended public high school and adored topsiders. The handbook, he said, “changed my life.”. Lisa Birnbach and Chip Kidd in a photographer’s studio, preparing for their new book. Credit Fred R.

Conrad/The New York Times Ms. Birnbach, 52, insists that the first book was intended to gently mock prep-school culture. She says she was surprised by how many people took it so seriously.

“I didn’t think people wanted to be like us,” said Ms. Birnbach, who attended Riverdale Country School and Brown University, then went on to enjoy what some might called the Life Well-Prepped: writing college guides and co-writing books about friendship, motherhood and being Jewish, as well as working a stint as a correspondent on CBS’s “Early Show.” “And I didn’t know that two years after this little paperback book came out that I would still be answering letters seeking advice or be on the lecture circuit telling people how to be more like this,” she added. The first book came as the country was tipping into recession, and it was fun to hate the rich. This one arrives with the country struggling to emerge from the biggest economic downtown since the Great Depression and it’s once again fun to hate the rich. But even for prepsters, it turns out, the world has changed.

While the original book dwelled on such themes as the timelessness of preppy culture (“In a true democracy, everyone can be upper class and live in Connecticut”), the secret language of prepsters (“Summer is a verb”) and when it is proper to wear socks with Gucci loafers (Never!), the sequel will include segments on alcohol rehab and newfangled technology (no texting at the table, if you please). Edmund White contributes an essay on the gay preppy scene. And while “True Prep” dispenses a dollop of the upper-class frugality, many of its featured items are a bit more upmarket than the duck shoes and other L.L. Bean duds that dominated the first volume. Think Tory Burch, E. Goyard bags and the luxury jewelry brand Verdura.

“The Official Preppy Handbook” sold 1.3 million copies. The idea for the new book was born after Ms. Birnbach and Mr. Kidd became acquainted on Facebook and decided to meet for lunch last May.

Sonny Mehta, chairman of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, said he was intrigued by their partnership, as well as the concept. “They felt they could do something which really wasn’t a sequel, but something wholly original,” said Mr. Mehta, who is planning a 150,000 first-print run. On a recent early spring afternoon, Ms. Birnbach and Mr. Kidd were overseeing a photo shoot at the studio of Geoff Spear, a photographer who has collaborated with Mr. Kidd on numerous book jackets.

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Though playful, there was a certain earnestness to the project. Kidd, wearing a Ralph Lauren lavender linen shirt and khaki trousers imprinted with small skull-and-crossbones, often stepped in to show the models how he wanted them to pose.

Birnbach, tall and willowy, stood behind the camera, smiling in encouragement. Since the first book was published, Ms. Download Fast And Furious 2 Ita Dvdrip ?????. Birnbach said that she had been asked many times to revisit the preppy topic. A few years ago, Workman, the publisher of the original handbook, asked if she would be interested in collaborating on a sequel. She said she was ready to sign on, but Susan Bolotin, editor in chief at Workman, said the publisher wanted other original participants to agree to the project. Jonathan Roberts, who came up with the original concept for the first book and was one of its writers, didn’t want to take part.

“The only reason you do something again is if maybe you’re going to do it better — like ‘Godfather II,’ ” Mr. Roberts, a screenwriter, said in a telephone interview. “But ‘Preppy Handbook?’ I mean, come on. The subversive idea behind it was if you can reveal all of the secret systems and totems by which a portion of society keeps its elite status, you kind of pull the rug out from under them.” He added: “The only reason to do it is if you’re trying to reverse the satire and encourage more people to adopt that kind of camp.” Readers who were born after the first book was published are waiting for their generation’s edition. Helen “Hopsy” Goblirsch, a 25-year-old event planner for a real estate developer in Dallas who blogs at “” ( kappaprep.com), said she discovered the original handbook when she was a sophomore at the Taft School in Watertown, Conn.

“I guess it’s like when you’re a doctor you love to watch ‘ER’ or ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ to see how they portray you,” Ms. Goblirsch said. And as a sign of the book’s power as imprimatur, she said, “I’m hoping that Taft makes it this time. We did not back in the 1980s.”.