sumptuary
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(adjective) relating to personal expenditures and especially to prevent extravagance and luxury / (adjective) designed to regulate extravagant expenditures or habits especially on moral or religious grounds / sumptuary law = law restricting consumption (notable during middle ages)
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Sumptuary laws codified which classes could wear which garments.
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Sumptuary laws codified which classes could wear which garments.
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parvenu
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(noun) one that has recently or suddenly risen to an unaccustomed position of wealth or power and has not yet gained the prestige, dignity, or manner associated with it
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A parvenu won’t just drive a Porsche but will also live in a luxury condo and enroll her children in the top private schools.
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A parvenu won’t just drive a Porsche but will also live in a luxury condo and enroll her children in the top private schools.
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zoot suit
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a men's suit with high-waisted, wide-legged, tight-cuffed, pegged trousers, and a long coat with wide lapels and wide padded shoulders
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Teenagers in London’s working-class neighborhoods asked their local tailors to replicate the Savile Row look, while extending the long jackets to dramatic zoot-suit length
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Teenagers in London’s working-class neighborhoods asked their local tailors to replicate the Savile Row look, while extending the long jackets to dramatic zoot-suit length
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bricolage
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(noun) construction (as of a sculpture or a structure of ideas) achieved by using whatever comes to hand / (noun) something constructed in this way
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Most subcultural and countercultural innovation thus begins as bricolage—the mixing and matching of preexisting styles and objects to imbue them with new meanings.
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Most subcultural and countercultural innovation thus begins as bricolage—the mixing and matching of preexisting styles and objects to imbue them with new meanings.
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epigone
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(noun) follower disciple / (noun) an inferior imitator
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To create within the framework of someone else’s stereotype makes the creator an epigone, and their work is mere “taste.”
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To create within the framework of someone else’s stereotype makes the creator an epigone, and their work is mere “taste.”
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idiolect
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(noun) the language or speech pattern of one individual at a particular period of life
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The influence process for radical art is always an uphill struggle: works begin as an esoteric idiolect—symbols and ideas spoken and understood by a single person.
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The influence process for radical art is always an uphill struggle: works begin as an esoteric idiolect—symbols and ideas spoken and understood by a single person.
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