[f. FASHION sb. + MONGER.] One who studies and follows the fashion or fashions.
1599. Marston, Sco. Villanie, 166.
| Each quaint fashion-monger, whose sole repute | |
| Rests in his trim gay clothes, lie slavering, | |
| Tainting thy lines with his lewd censuring? |
1624. T. Heywood, Gynaikeion, vi. 298. Iulia on the contrarie, loosely and wantonly habited, had in her traine none but butterflie-pages, wild fashion-mongers, and fantasticke gallants.
1782. European Mag., I. April, 247/2. Would any man conceive it—that within the last month a knot of fashion-mongers assembled in the drawing-room of a French dancer have had the address to stop the growth, and deprive the kingdom of as many groves aspiring oak as would have served to build a fleet of twenty ships of the line?
1826. Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. II. (1863), 425. A thrifty fashion-monger.
Hence † Fashion-monging ppl. a.
1599. Shaks., Much Ado, V. i. 94. Scrambling, out-facing, fashion-monging boyes.
