[Ads-l] Antedating "white shoe" (1933)

[dave@wilton.net]

OED has 1947.
 
“Professor and Student Praise New Yale Plan.” Chicago Daily Tribune, 28 December 1933, 5/4. ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
 
“I can see,” he said, “that Pearson and Davenport colleges at Yale are going to become the fashionable colleges of the United States as Christchurch [sic] is the fashionable college at Oxford. The ‘white shoe boys of Park avenue’ already have taken up these two colleges and managed to impart an air of social distinction to their walls.[”]

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