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With the economic boom of the 1980s, faux preppies grew up and became worldly yuppies. And at the end of the twentieth century, this group transformed again, into what the columnist David Brooks named Bobos (bourgeois bohemian), a group with taste that merged cosmopolitan yuppie consumerism and modest hippie sensibilities.
Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change
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