Tall wigs were their skinny jeans – everyone laughed at them, then copied their style. Here's how hipsters have existed since ye olden times.
Who does this guy think he is?
Trendy metrosexual fashion – check.
Sneering insincerity – according to Oxford columnists, yes.
Pointless snobbery about foreign obscura – sure.
1770 was probably the first time when tons of British middle-class kids had enough cash to blow on sitting around and looking cool. People in London really hated these 'Macaronis'. They hated them so much they compared them donkeys, butterflies, frogs, Frenchmen, pasta, and women.
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Their families bankrolled their Grand Tours across Europe, and they came home name-dropping Italian opera singers and restaurants no one's heard of.
You might recognize Macaronis from that Yankee Doodle ditty: "Stuck a feather in his hat and called it Macaroni."
Via: library.yale.edu
'Macaroni' soon came to mean 'anything baffoonish and annoyingly snooty'. The only thing trendier than being a Macaroni was hating on them openly.
In the artsy Strand neighourhood (later settled by Dickens), Matthew Darly's print shop made a wildly popular series of prints skewering 1770s Macaroni culture. No one hates a Macaroni like a Macaroni. It was their version of #LookAtThatFuckingHipster or Die Hipster Scum or Hipster Animals.
Via: historicromance.wordpress.com
