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McCardell is the one who ignored its provenance as a humble workingman’s textile and brought it to women’s wear.
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Julia Turner, The Atlantic, 1 July 2025
Kimmel has a great blend of classy guy and workingman’s appeal, but this isn’t his strongest night.
—Bill Wyman, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
This nascent subgenre flows directly from Woody Guthrie’s suite of murder ballads, which gave the workingman’s lament an infusion of antihero glamour.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
His workingman shtick, borrowed from socialist folk-music sentimentality, is sustained by the showbiz equivalent of the Democrat machine.
—Armond White, National Review, 25 Oct. 2024
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Julia Turner, The Atlantic, 1 July 2025
Kimmel has a great blend of classy guy and workingman’s appeal, but this isn’t his strongest night.
—Bill Wyman, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
This nascent subgenre flows directly from Woody Guthrie’s suite of murder ballads, which gave the workingman’s lament an infusion of antihero glamour.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
His workingman shtick, borrowed from socialist folk-music sentimentality, is sustained by the showbiz equivalent of the Democrat machine.
—Armond White, National Review, 25 Oct. 2024
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“Workingman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/workingman. Accessed 16 Jul. 2025.
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workingman
noun
work·ing·man
ˈwər-kiŋ-ˌman 
: one who works for wages usually at manual labor or in industry
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