prefashionable en · ADJ
Etymology
From pre- + fashionable.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Prior to becoming fashionable.
Mr. Jacobs once described another of these films, “Blonde Cobra” (1959-63), edited from footage shot by Bob Fleischner, as a “look in on an exploding life, on a man of imagination suffering prefashionable Lower East Side deprivation and consumed with American 1950s, ’40s, ’30s disgust.”
2009 October 11, Manohla Dargis, “Deconstructing Cinema in Order to Reveal It”, in New York Times: