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A macaroni (formerly spelled maccaroni [1]) was a pejorative term used to describe a fashionable fellow of 18th-century Britain. Stereotypically, men in the macaroni subculture dressed, spoke, and behaved in an unusually epicene and androgynous manner.
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Working-class people in 18th century England and America often wore the same garments as fashionable people—shirts, waistcoats, coats and breeches for men, and shifts, petticoats, and dresses or jackets for women—but they owned fewer clothes and what they did own was made of cheaper and sturdier fabrics.
Glossary of 18th Century Costume Terminology; An Analysis of An Eighteenth Century Woman's Quilted Waistcoat by Sharon Ann Burnston Archived 2010-05-22 at the Wayback Machine; French Fashions 1700 - 1789 from The Eighteenth Century: Its Institutions, Customs, and Costumes, Paul Lecroix, 1876 "Introduction to 18th Century Men and Women's Fashion".
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The "Mungo Macaroni" (Mungo - a name of a slave character from a comic opera) is based on Julius Soubise. Mary and Matthew Darly [1] were English printsellers and caricaturists during the 1770s. [2] Mary Darly (fl. 1756–1779) was a printseller, caricaturist, artist, engraver, writer, and teacher.
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In the early 18th century, men's shoes continued to have a squared toe, but the heels were not as high. From 1720 to 1730, the heels became even smaller, and the shoes became more comfortable, no longer containing a block toe. The shoes from the first half of the century often contained an oblong buckle usually embedded with stones. [17]