Vogue is a synonym for “fashion.”
A popular article or behaviour is in vogue or all the vogue; or there is a vogue of or for an activity.
- Weight training and Pilates classes are in vogue as ways to keep fit.
- Platform shoes are all the vogue again.
- The vogue of body piercing is not very popular among seniors.
- The vogue for butterfly hair clips has passed.
An item gaining popularity comes into vogue; past fashions fall out of vogue.
- Palm pilots came into vogue in the mid-1990s.
- Recycling is all the vogue; let’s hope it never falls out of vogue!
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