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title: "Based on a very sophisticated ego: it girls"
date: 2014-08-05
last_modified: 2025-02-05T12:01:19+01:00
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url: "https://www.schirn.de/en/schirnmag/based-on-a-very-sophisticated-ego-it-girls-context-en/"
description: "The term “it girl” was coined in 1927—however, that “certain something” seems to have gotten lost over the years."
image: "https://www.schirn.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/1-4.jpg"
language: "en-US"
---

# Based on a very sophisticated ego: it girls