plaid-collar
1) pertaining to hipster subculture. derived from previous uses of “collar” to describe cl-ss: blue-collar, white-collar, green-collar. conotes the, perhaps, more mature subsection thereof.
2) used to describe a cl-ss of professionals (after the fashion of white-collar, and blue-collar) who work in fields -ssociated with information, creativity, social-media, etc.
3) liberal arts majors who manage to get a job where they only wear ties if they feel like it, and with the top b-tton undone.
hipster 1, “winston just got a job at the huffpo as a social-media coordinator.”
hipster 2, “totally, kewl, joining that plaid-collar workforce.”
“dude, i forgot my rooibos tea, at the new lunch-time yoga studio…man, i’m totally a plaid-collar worker.”
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