A place to appreciate the twentieth century comic character Everett True of "The Outbursts of Everett True." Feel free to check out the sticky.
During the late 19th century, “dude” was popularized, and its meaning hotly debated. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word's first formal definition was: “A man who shows an ostentatious regard for fashion and style in regard to dress or appearance; a dandy, a fop.”
Fop is one of my favorite words =)
I have a weekly D&D campaign where my wife plays a dragonborn fighter who she describes as "quite foppish" and it makes me chuckle XD
Well, I don't want Fop, goddamn it! I'm a Dapper Dan man!
Pretty funny how "dude" morphed from meaning someone uptight about appearances to being just a regular guy.
Lol didn't even have to insult the man to get hit.
You can see a lot about the time period from this comic.
Before Taxi Driver, Fight Club and The Joker, Everett True was the dark, brooding lone-wolf sigma-male antihero of the age.