During the late 19th century, “dude” was popularized, and its meaning hotly debated. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word’s first formal definition was: “A man who shows an ostentatious regard for fashion and style in regard to dress or appearance; a dandy, a fop.”
Fop is one of my favorite words =)
I have a weekly D&D campaign where my wife plays a dragonborn fighter who she describes as “quite foppish” and it makes me chuckle XD
Well, I don’t want Fop, goddamn it! I’m a Dapper Dan man!
Pretty funny how “dude” morphed from meaning someone uptight about appearances to being just a regular guy.
Lol didn’t even have to insult the man to get hit.
You can see a lot about the time period from this comic.
Before Taxi Driver, Fight Club and The Joker, Everett True was the dark, brooding lone-wolf sigma-male antihero of the age.
