foppery

All this expensive fashion foppery came at the expense of the poor.

From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2017

But behind the foppery lay a serious work ethic and a spirit of experimentation that led him through varying painting styles and on travels overseas.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 13, 2012

He consorted with English lords, rode to hounds, learned to love foppery and all the elegancies, became a past master of dancing, of gambling, polite drinking and exquisite flirtation.

From Time Magazine Archive

There on the worn stones of the Quarter I enlisted the aid of this wilted flower of a human in gathering his associates in foppery together behind a banner of brotherhood.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

Snow-white linen, indeed, constitutes the principal feature in the robber foppery of Spain. 

From The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] by George Henry Borrow

He invented his own fopperies, adapted his own fiction from the medieval, translated his own pleasures from the French.

From Time Magazine Archive

His fopperies could not conceal the silken strength of him.

From Brand Blotters by Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert) Rowe

And above all, if it can be done without too great annoyance to tailors, amateur and professional, deliver us from braided pelisses, bearskin caps, crimson pantaloons, and all such costly and unserviceable fopperies.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various

My indignation at Mr. Keats's depreciation of Pope has hardly permitted me to do justice to his own genius, which, malgrè all the fantastic fopperies of his style, was undoubtedly of great promise.

From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore

I was that day shown to twelve sets of company, and as often forced to act over again the same fopperies, till I was half dead with weariness and vexation.

From Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World by Thomas M. Balliet