Medallion Man. That's a person you don't hear much of anymore.
Once bestowed upon anyone who wore a gold necklace amid a forest of chest hair, it was everyone from Fred Wedlock to Gary Davies to George Michael to Frank Butcher to the flash bloke in the espadrilles and silk shirt unbuttoned to the navel you'd find in nightclubs or wine bars. That man has all but died out.
So what's the modern equivalent of this lothario? For women, it seems to be the term cougar. How did this enter our parlance - and why? Now it's any attractive woman over 40 who's out to get a man. Calling all women: what do you think of this term?
There are all sorts of epithets that have bitten the dust over the past 25 years. Whither the Yuppie or the Dinkie? Where's the Fulham Wanderer, the Young Fogey or the the Nouveau Pauvres? They attempted a Sloane Ranger revival recently, updating it for the modern world, but it probably officially died when Diana did.
I've got a pile of handbooks at home on how to be most of these things. I have to say, Peter Yorks Official Sloane Ranger Handbook kept me amused for years. I went to school with many of the stereotypes, and it was spot on. A lot of them played up to it, protesting that the biggest insult in the world to them was to be called a Sloane. Secretly of course, they reveled in it. How Eighties is that?
So what media-invented tribes do we have knocking around today?
