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white shoe brigadenoun AustralianWealthy business people of Queensland in the 1980s, typically property developers, especially when perceived as aggressively commercial, vulgarly showy, and politically conservative: the white shoe brigade preferred the real-estate speculation model of productivity...- He became a billionaire via the Gold Coast White Shoe Brigade and the mining business.
- The conference room was stacked with people who looked and behaved like caricatures of the legendary white shoe brigade of the Eighties boom time.
- Symbols of the excesses of the white-shoe brigade may be kitsch and amusing, but are indicative of a society where development was pursued for the good of a few.
Origin 1980s: with reference to the showy white shoes worn by Queensland property developers in the period. |