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Trixie (slang)

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Trixie is a general term referring to a young urban white woman, typically single and in her late 20s or early 30s. The term originated during the 1990s in Chicago, Illinois when four young women from Midwestern Universities joined together to create new social class subculture in Chicago. The Lincoln Park Trixie Society was soon born and further popularized by a website run by and dedicated to the The Society, a social club based in Chicago's upscale Lincoln Park neighborhood. The many contributions the Society has made are done so through the Society's Foundation, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping young up-and-coming Trixies join the ranks of Society.

Trixies are typically depicted as "socially adept, marriage-minded, extremely career and family focused young ladies that seem to flock to the upwardly mobile neighborhood of Lincoln Park. Another description calls them "the women with Kate Spade bags for every day of the week; the ex-sorority girls still lusting after big jocks who are often young lawyers, consultants or other professionals. A typical Trixie will want to marry and have children before her body clock stops ticking, which results in a natural movement of Trixies and their husbands from rental apartments, to single family homes, and later in life, to larger estates on the North Shore in towns such as Winnetka, Glencoe, Highland Park and Lake Forest, Illinois.

According to National Geographic, the Trixie stereotype describes a "blond, late-twenties woman with a ponytail who works in PR or marketing, drives a black Jetta, gets manicures and no-foam skim lattes."[1] Trixies typically also have a small dog (a pug, puggle or shiba inu) and know all of the other neighborhood dog owners by their dog's name.

As such, "Trixies" are not unique to Chicago but representative of a stereotyped subculture in contemporary America. However, the term's use is specific to the Chicago area.

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  1. ^ National Geographic Online http://web.archive.org/web/20071216063317rn_1/ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0205/feature7/assignment1.html
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