Extra fun fact: In 'Yankee Doodle Dandy' the song is about the British mocking the Americans' tattered and worn way of dressing. People resented this womanly look and it soon fell out of fashion and placed a greater importance on looking properly masculine. It is called a Macaroni.I may perhaps, on some future occasion, be ample in animadversion on those lady-like gentlemen, who, despairing to be thought men, are ambitious of resembling women.'
Their look became so extreme with huge wigs, heavily made up faces, and ornate and ridiculous accessories that by 1775 people began to describe the look as 'effeminate.' The Oxford Magazine of the time said, 'There is a indeed a kind of animal, neither male nor female, a thing of the neuter gender, lately started up among us.
Eventually, Macaronis became a laughing stock.
