bootleg recessionistas

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 9:30 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>
> And now a legitimate WOTY nominee, as detailed at
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/fashion/26words.html?_r=1&ref=style&oref=slogin
>
> ...
> Welcome to "recession chic" and its personification, the
> "recessionista," the new name for the style maven on a budget. That
> the word represents the times could explain why Sarah Palin's new
> wardrobe ($75,000 at Neiman Marcus and nearly $50,000 at Saks) struck
> some as distasteful.
>
> Ms. Hall, who first read the term in newspapers and on Web sites like
> Jezebel.com, even started a blog to chronicle her cheap and chic
> choices: http://therecessionista.blogspot.com.

Noted on Word Spy back in July:

http://www.wordspy.com/words/recessionista.asp

And more recently on World Wide Words:

http://www.worldwidewords.org/nl/sjax.htm#N3


--Ben Zimmer

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