Word: fops
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...undeserving poor with vigor. And one of the battlefields on which they did so, in the view of Author Moers, was that of dress. Leading a languid but deadly charge for the aristocracy was a new and resplendent creature, the dandy (whom the author distinguishes from the mere fop by the social forces that created him). Thomas Carlyle wrote unsympathetically that a dandy is "a Man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of Clothes." He ignored the dandy's first function-to prove, merely by being himself, the unbridgeable distance between the elite and "the great...