fashionist

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If you show, hey I am a hipster / fashionist / neomod / bla bla bla, with whatever you choose to be you actively make a statement, and others choosing to represent the same will go; "Yeah he pulls it off well." or, "Oh my thats lame".

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  1. An obsequious follower of the modes and fashions. [Rare.] Many of these ornaments were only temporary, as used by the fashionists of that day. Fuller, Pisgah Sight of Palestine, I. iii. 5.

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  • If you show, hey I am a hipster / fashionist / neomod / bla bla bla, with whatever you choose to be you actively make a statement, and others choosing to represent the same will go; "Yeah he pulls it off well." or, "Oh my thats lame". —  clusterflock
  • If the fashionist have not this quality, he is nothing. —  Essays — Second Series
  • Uomini e donne: Paris is really a fashionist we must admit ... —  The Blemish
  • Stylish elegance and classic lines give The Essential Frames (right) their signature look, ideal for the intelligent fashionist. —  World of SL
  • The ill-bred fashionist sails haughtily into the shop where she obtains materials for her adornment, and with a supercilious air purchases her ribbons and laces of a sulky girl, who revenges herself for not being able to wear the costly gauds by treating as rudely as she dares the customer who can; and as they look upon each other, the one with scorn, and the other with envious hate, we see in both only the very same littleness of feminine vanity, which in its narrow-minded silliness believes that the first requisite of a lady is costly garments. —  The Elements of Character
 

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