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- It_girl abstract ""It girl" is a term for a young woman who possesses the indefinable quality "It", absolute attraction without flaunting her sexuality. The early usage of the concept "it" in this meaning may be seen in a 1904 short story by Rudyard Kipling: "It isn't beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just 'It'." The expression reached global attention in 1927, with the film It, starring Clara Bow. Elinor Glyn, who wrote the story for the film, lectured: "With 'It,' you win all men if you are a woman and all women if you are a man. 'It' can be a quality of the mind as well as a physical attraction."The It Girl is said to be the invention of Glyn's elder sister, the renowned couturier Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, known professionally simply as "Lucile". She was the first fashion designer to dress stars from Mary Pickford to Sarah Bernhardt, both on and off stage and screen. In Paris, her fashions were popular among the haute bohemia; even Mata Hari was said to don her "It Girl" style.While "it girls" of today are commonly young females in the worlds of fashion or show-business, the original concept focused on personality. Kipling's "Mrs. Bathurst" was a middle-aged widow, and Glyn significantly kept both Benito Mussolini and the doorman at the Ambassador hotel on her "It men" list.Since the 1990s, It girl or It-girl more commonly refers to an attractive young woman who receives intense media coverage unrelated or disproportional to personal achievements. The reign of an "It girl" is usually temporary; some of the rising It girls will either become fully-fledged celebrities or their popularity will fade. The term "It boy", much less frequently used, is the male equivalent. This term is unrelated to the abbreviation IT.".
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- It_girl subject Category:Celebrity_fandom.
- It_girl subject Category:English_phrases.
- It_girl subject Category:Entertainment.
- It_girl subject Category:Sexuality_and_society.
- It_girl comment ""It girl" is a term for a young woman who possesses the indefinable quality "It", absolute attraction without flaunting her sexuality. The early usage of the concept "it" in this meaning may be seen in a 1904 short story by Rudyard Kipling: "It isn't beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just 'It'." The expression reached global attention in 1927, with the film It, starring Clara Bow.".
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