[Ads-l] Antedating of "Socialite"

[Shapiro, Fred]

socialite (OED 1909)

1907 _Santa Cruz Sentinel_ 30 Oct. 3/2 (Newspapers.com)  The extravagance of apparel which is sweeping like a blight over the continents has bitten tenaciously at the fancy of our social people when decking themselves for their strictly social affairs.  On all other occasions they attire themselves modestly enough.  But when a function rallies the socialites together the affair has come to be something of a dress parade, each one vying helplessly, pathetically with the fortunate possessors of wealth.

Fred Shapiro

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