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1661 n. The technical term for this—where you look pullable from behind, with your slashed mini, straggly Joss Stone hair and macrame ankle bracelet, but when swivelled around, look more like someone eligible to collect a pension—is 1661. (Get it? Sixteen from the back, 61 from the front.) Oh, dear. Perhaps that’s what I am: the ultimate 1661. Yet isn’t a certain amount of self-delusion necessary in order to cope with the horrible, galloping inevitability of old age? [English Apparel, Appearance, & Fashion Slang] [full cite] (Jul. 20, 2007)

1661 n. I’ve always detested the expression “mutton dressed as lamb.” It’s misogynist, mean and women are not meat; even Sam Kekovich would concur with that. But there’s a new version of it that describes women who retain hairstyles or wardrobes suited to a different life stage—women such as Melanie Griffith and Faye Dunaway. The term is “1661”—a woman who looks 16 from behind, 61 from the front. [English Apparel, Appearance, & Fashion Body Slang] [full cite] (Jul. 20, 2007)

1661 n. Great i am now a 1661 and that is only a compliment from behind. [English United Kingdom Apparel, Appearance, & Fashion Slang] [full cite] (Jul. 20, 2007)

1661 n. I’m a 1661 woman—sixteen from behind, sixty one from the front. [English United Kingdom Apparel, Appearance, & Fashion Slang] [full cite] (Jul. 20, 2007)

1661 syndrome n. The 1661 syndrome—whereby a woman (and it almost always is a woman) looks like a bouncy-tressed, pert-bottomed teenager from behind and a grandmother from the front—has become a cultural joke. [English Apparel, Appearance, & Fashion Slang] [full cite] (Jul. 18, 2007)

1661 syndrome n. Carole Malone mentioned the 1661 syndrome—where men think you’re attractive from the back (16)…and then back off when they see your face (61). This issue is supposed to affect all women over the age of probably 35. [English Apparel, Appearance, & Fashion Slang] [full cite] (Jul. 20, 2007)

androg adj. I was what you call the “androg look,” half in, half out.…There’s all sorts of genres and subgenres. Like there’s transsexuals, then there’s transvestites who are gay and transvestites who are straight. [ Language English Subject Apparel, Appearance, & Fashion Sex & Sexuality] [full cite] (Jan. 10, 2006)

anti-fit adj. The big news is BIG. Anti-fit is the new terminology for the loose-fitting silhouettes expected to show up in pants this spring, according to Levi’s. [English Apparel, Appearance, & Fashion] [full cite] (Mar. 7, 2007)

anti-fit adj. A jeans manufacturer has a commercial for a new brand of jeans “with anti-fit.” I was still struggling with this concept when I heard a woman fashion expert on the radio say “Of course, most clothes now are anti-fit.” What the hell is going on?…Presumably anti-fit means tailors no longer have to ask if you dress to the left or the right. For mothers who took their sons to buy suits or trousers, briefing them on the correct way to answer that question was a greater challenge than explaining human reproduction. [English Apparel, Appearance, & Fashion] [full cite] (Mar. 7, 2007)

anti-fit adj. And what has America given the world?? Quote “A piece of America in every home” is a load of bollox. The sum total is: 5 year old gangsters, baggy anti-fit jeans, laceless shoes, Beverly Hills 92010, Bay Watch… the list is endless. [English Apparel, Appearance, & Fashion] [full cite] (Mar. 7, 2007)

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