Yuppie culture

Image Credit: Fairfax Media Archives For better or worse, the yuppie has stuck around for 40 years. The “young urban professional” first became a target for disdain when Dan Rottenberg used the term in Chicago magazine in May of 1980. The popular idea is that a generation of hippies and free thinkers grew up, sold […]

This is a photo of a couple in the "Yuppie" style of the 80s. Yuppie stood for 'Young Upwardly Mobile Professional Person'. They wore preppy upscale clothing that reflected their expensive tastes. Women often wore sneakers while commuting to work in cities.

Yuppie style

Men's preppy look: sweater over shoulders, boat shoes.

“What Yuppies have discovered is nothing less than a new plane of consciousness, a state of Transcendental Acquisition, in which the perfection of their possessions enables them to rise above…

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