![]() King George III was a favorite target for the Americans, and the Americans were a favorite target for the British. As in armed conflicts before and since, militias on both sides had a large catalog of derisive tunes to lift their spirits. ![]() In a 1999 academic article in “Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture,” Peter McNeil explained that “as soon as the macaroni stereotype entered the middle-class press the character was interpreted as sodomitical.” Macaronis were jeered at with fictional names that probably sounded more homophobic at the time: “Lord Dimple,” “Sir William Whiffle,” “Marjorie Pattypan.” The ostentation of the macaroni would prompt talk about sexual orientation. “And many a time an honest laboring porter has said, ‘By your leave, madam,’ without intending to give offense.” “Such a figure, essenced and perfumed, with a bunch of lace sticking out under its chin, puzzles the common passenger to determine the thing’s sex,” wrote Town and Country Magazine in 1772. Clearly, they scandalized the establishment. Today we would say these guys were working it.
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