[Ads-l] Antedating of "Voguing"

[Emily Gordon]

Pleasing gloss from an oral history on *Vogue*'s website, June 28, 2023:

 What’s really interesting is that vogue the dance is named vogue because
it is *in vogue.* It couldn’t be more perfect. I don’t think we can
eliminate the magazine as one of the great sources, because even if it
didn’t originate with it, *Vogue* is the paradigm for photographic modeling
and structural pose. But it’s more about it being the pinnacle, as opposed
to a facsimile of the magazine.
—Ricky Tucker, ballroom academic and author of And the Category Is…Inside
New York’s Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community

https://www.vogue.com/article/oral-history-ballroom-pride-2023


On Sat, Nov 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM Shapiro, Fred <
00001ac016895344-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:

> voguing (OED 1988)
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> 1987 Houston Chronicle 24 July section 5, page 14, column 5
> (Newspapers.com)
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> Posing is just striking poses, like the models in Vogue, and in New York
> it's called voguing.
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> Fred Shapiro
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