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by jonnathanson 4605 days ago
"For a correct definition of the expression the anxious inquirer has only to turn to the tight-trousered, brief-coated, eye-glassed, fancy-vested, sharp-toes shod, vapid youth who abounds in the Metropolis at present."

I submit that this definition is as true today as it was in 1887.

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The contemporary term is “hipster”.