the skinny

what they are saying about us...

  • The Gazette

    The fascination [with snobbery] yields wickedly snarky observations about life in Montgomery County on her blog - why every Chevy Chase parent is required to push a Maclaren stroller, for example, or why on college admissions forums she finds teens panicking about getting a 2370 out of 2400 on the SAT. But it's all in good fun...

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  • The Thes

    The Thes has discovered a great new website that lampoons those of us who live in wealthy areas like Bethesda, via t-shirts, because, come on, it’s easy to do. The website, snoburbia.com, claims to make "t-shirts for the overclass."

    Here’s one of my favorites so far and one I fully intend to wear around Bethesda:
    MD > VA (note that Bethesdans, unlike Arlingtonians, are still legally allowed to smile). The new website also has an accompanying blog that offers insights into the more ridiculous aspects of snoburban living: snoburbia: the blog.

  • NBC4 Washington

    Snoburbia continues to thrill with their T-shirts... But the most hotly debated shirt? The Maryland > Virginia tee.

    An ode to all things upwardly mobile, Snoburbia continues to thrill with their T-shirts honoring "elite" sports (lacrosse, horseback riding), muscular SUVs and the Ivy League ("I got in" – the "and you didn’t" part is understood.) But the most hotly debated shirt? The Maryland > Virginia tee.

    Bethesda vs. Arlington? Do you REALLY want to have this debate? We’re this close to just making a pie graph of Starbucks locations and being done with it.

  • Shirt Snob

    Snoburbia is a t-shirt website dedicated to making fun of (or celebrating depending on your point of view) snobby suburbia. Really, this means that it is making fun of the Shirt Snob as that is the life we lead, but we figure this could appeal to some of our readers. Or maybe you like irony! What we like most about this site is that they have two types of women's tops available, traditional and slim fitting. This means the colors can be different depending on what you choose, but we appreciate the variety as not every woman is built the same. Some of our favorite designs include USA Snob Map and Foodie.

  • Bethesda Magazine

    Overachievers? Who, Us? Bethesda-area residents may chuckle at how they are portrayed on t-shirts Kensington resident Lydia Sullivan sells on her website, snoburbia.com. The t-shirts gently poke fun at the area’s overachiever tendencies – one simply sports an ivy leaf with the words, "I got in."

    "The extent to which the overachievers set the pace here is amazing. Even when people are hiking or biking, it’s still a means to achieve," Sullivan says. The 47-year-old mother of four says the site, which also includes a blog, allows her to combine her writing, graphics, and social observation skills. "I’m really proud to live in the Kensington-Bethesda area," Sullivan says. "The people are unusually intelligent and interesting. The humor is all tongue-in-cheek." www.snoburbia.com

  • Just Up The Pike

    There's a new Montgomery County blog on the block, this one tackling that everpresent issue of pretentious ass-faces: snoburbia, written by "Kensington/Bethesda/Potomac" native Lydia. Topics covered include everything from condescending expatriate parents to Starbucks-sipping MoCo cops. Definitely check out the accompanying store with what Lydia calls "t-shirts for the overclass." They even have a Silver Spring shirt. (It and the website's logo use the streamlined, awesomely pretentious Futura typeface, which happens to be one of my favorites.)

  • NBC4 Washington

    Over-Privileged? Get the T-shirt
    Celebrate Snoburbia with "T-shirts for the Overclass"

    In desperate search of the perfect graduation gift for all those budding yuppies? Snoburbia.com has launched a line of "T-shirts for the Overclass," reports Bethesda blog The Thes.

    Snoburbia.com pays tribute to the snobbery of local 'burbs like Bethesda and Potomac, intellectual hobbies and "elite" sports. (Lacrosse, we're looking at YOU) And ... well, you get the picture.

    And if you don't, then get a vente latte at that Starbucks that's actually IN that Crate and Barrel (you so know what we're talking about) and then try again.

    Snoburbia's blog covers all of the most pressing issues facing the upwardly mobile -- think parental soccer game sideline etiquette and the devastating impact of the recession on iPod giveaways at after-prom parties.

    With the launch of the new T-shirt line, suburbanites everywhere can accessorize their seersucker shorts with T-shirts like "My Internship is More Impressive" or an Ivy leaf emblazoned with the phrase "I Got In." Pretty soon, these shirts will be giving Lilly Pulitzer and Vineyard Vines a run for their money. Warning to city dwellers: Wear these T-shirts at your own risk.

  • MoCo Scene

    Tell me it ain't so. When I checked out Lydia Sullivan's snoburbia.com for my magazine column, I was laughing my head off reading the community satire on her blog. She takes the overachieving lifestyle of the Bethesda environs and turns it on its head, providing a good dose of self-deprecating humor and giving us all a chance to look at ourselves (or for sure our neighbors) and stop overachieving long enough for a good laugh. She's taken it one step further with T-shirts, including one with a MoCo logo new in July. For you yahoos out there, MoCo stands for the well-heeled DC 'burbs known as Montgomery County where several public schools regularly make Newsweek's Top 100 list and where everyone, well, is just better than everyone else. Lydia is a longtime area resident and loves the city and its people. But she just can't help herself from having a little tongue-in-cheek fun. Soft cotton tees come in sizes for all ages and in a slim cut. Graphics include "hobbies" like Thinker (my son Will, above) and Writer. There's a succinct I Got In with an Ivy leaf emblazoned on the front as well as one that boasts My internship is more impressive. Well, National Institutes of Health is in my backyard: doesn't that go without saying? My own dear MoCo-raised and W-school wunderkind son and his friend Rafi were kind enough to pose in the shirts. Rafi's fave: MD > VA. Lydia is also making some shirts going the other direction. But I won't mention those here.

  • 20 Something Insight

    So there’s this website that sells really incredible t-shirts. It’s called Snoburbia. Their slogan is Snoburbia, t-shirts for the overclass.

    I came across it going through google reader this afternoon. ShirtSnob wrote a little ditty about it. I was curious to see the other t-shirts so I checked out the site.

    GO CHECK OUT SNOBURBIA NOW! Or, of course, after you read the rest of this post.

    As I’m looking through the t-shirt designs I start to get really really excited: A good number of the t-shirts are geared toward… LA? Nope. NY? Uh Uh. Your town? Not unless you live where I live; in the super fantastic Snoburbs of Washington, DC!

  • Electricfood Blog

    Have you ever walked in on a friend telling a story about you, and then realized with growing horror that A) it is not exactly a friendly story and B) he/she is right? I read some of these to Aku a few minutes ago, and I could hear her cringe with me over the phone. Too many of these shirts apply directly to our lives.

    And sometimes I’m embarrassed by it. But then I follow my tempeh sandwich with a soy latte, and it’s all good.