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DEFINITION: n., A fashion item so old that it has gone out of and come back into style. v., To save outdated clothing hoping that it will come back into style.
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Boomerangarment
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: boom + er + ang + garment
Sentence: I knew this ironic old t-shirt would be a boomerangarment - good thing I never throw anything away!
Etymology: boomerang + garment
Decawear
Created by: thebaron
Pronunciation:
Sentence: The drag queen had a closet full of decawear, hoping someday she could wear her old favorites on stage again.
Etymology:
Fashionticipation
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: fash-uhn-tiss-uh-PAY-shun
Sentence: Despite the criticism she took from so many people, Serediptity continued to follow her sense of fashionticipation and had not only saved her mothers old clothes, she regularly shopped in used clothing stores, flea markets and yard sales looking for fashion items from the 50's and 60's, believing they will all come back into style in time.
Etymology: Blend of fashion and anticipation.
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COMMENTS:
Good word - TJayzz, 2008-09-15: 07:18:00
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Hautepants
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: haw-te - pants
Sentence: I can't believe that Marlene thans that she can hautepants herself back into that Nehru jacket. she's gained atleast 100 pounds saince it was in fashion.
Etymology: haute -pertaining to fashion + pants; a play on the word hot pants
Dinochic
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: die-NO-sheek
Sentence: Bob had a fashback when he saw his daughter, Emily, in a pair of Roxie's bellbottoms -1970s vintage- and suggested that they must have come from pantiquity. But Roxie and Emily, ignoring Bob's sarcasm, agreed that her comeback clobber looked dinochic.
Etymology: Blend of "dino" (meaning old - not terrible) & 'chic" : style, elegance.
Retrothrift
Created by: youmustvotenato
Pronunciation: retro thrift
Sentence: What to wear to the indie concert? Lemme dig into the bottom of my dad's t-shirt drawer and find a retrothrifty shirt.
Etymology: Retro and thrift
Reincordnation
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: ree/in/cord/nay/shun
Sentence: When young Jack started out on his Kerouacian road trip it was time for the reincordnation of his father's favourite pair of time weathered cords.
Etymology: reincarnation + cord (short for corduroy)
Undeadthread
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: un.ded.thred
Sentence: It was the 80s all over again with Rachel prancing around in the undeadthread of baggy shirt and leggings
Etymology: the undead, thread
Lubricationality
Created by: ilovecheese98
Pronunciation: Lubri-ka-sh-on-al-i-ty
Sentence: That skirt is a form of lubricationality, and know in style.
Etymology: ?
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COMMENTS:
Random! - ilovecheese98, 2010-02-13: 18:10:00
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