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In English slang, an Essex girl is a young, working-class woman with an unsophisticated attitude to life. The sterotypical Essex girl wears a short skirt, high heels and bleach-blonde hair, often in the style of an Essex facelift. She drinks Diamond White which makes her loud and vulgar. Nobody laughs harder at an Essex girl joke than she does. She wears white slingbacks and drives a white Ford Fiesta. Essex girl is the female counterpart of Essex Man; both came into currency during the 1980s property boom, when sectors of British society enjoyed an affluence hitherto reserved for the middle classes. Latterly the Essex girl image has wained, to be replaced in part by chavette.

Similar to the dumb blonde stereotype, Essex girls are the butt of numerous jokes exploiting their stereotypical stupidity, slatternhood, and vanity (in a rough analog of the US' blonde joke).

Here is a a typical one: "What does an Essex girl put behind her ears to make her more attractive? Her ankles."


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